Pioneer Village is a museum and tourist attraction along U.S. Highway 6 in Minden, Nebraska, United States. Pioneer Village was founded in 1953 (1953) by Harold Warp, a Chicago manufacturer from Minden. The museum comprises a complex of 28 buildings on 20 acres (81,000 m2) with a total collection of over 50,000 items. The museum has a large collections of items from 1830 to the present, including frontier buildings; early cars (more than 350 are on display) and airplanes; a Wurlitzer Caliola; tractors and other farm implements; and an art collection. The Pioneer Village also manages a motel and a campground as part of the complex.Add Pioneer Village and other attractions to your Minden trip itinerary using our Minden journey planning tool.
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Someone has spent years pulling this historic collection of automobiles, carriages, furnishings, and artifacts together and has done a wonderful job with displays. Bring your walking shoes because...
Someone has spent years pulling this historic collection of automobiles, carriages, furnishings, and artifacts together and has done a wonderful job with displays. Bring your walking shoes because... more »
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From horse drawn carriages, covered wagons, and stagecoaches to the first airplanes, cars, tractors, furniture, appliances, and technology...it was a wonderful museum of early Americana 1860s to...
From horse drawn carriages, covered wagons, and stagecoaches to the first airplanes, cars, tractors, furniture, appliances, and technology...it was a wonderful museum of early Americana 1860s to... more »
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I am the mother of five adult sons and that's the age group that honestly works best with this location. We took a day off to visit the museum, and I think it was well worth it. So many interesting things to look at. To be honest It's really a bit dated and needs to have some work done but the collection is not done by professionals like most museums. It's the private collection of Harold Warp, and he did a fantastic job of collecting and displaying so much interesting stuff! They were working on the roof of one of the buildings and I hope they are able to keep working on updating. It was a great way to spend the day with my family.
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Very nice day. The temperature was perfect and the displays were awesome. It wasn't crowded but they were doing some much needed renovations. They displays are just fabulous and the wide array of objects are out of sight......
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