The Landis Valley Museum - Victorian School Day Field Trip

Wow! We has quit a time at Landis Valley. They held a Victorian themed homeschool day. I am not sure who had a better time, me or the children.

There was so much to see and do that I will not even try to cover it all. I can tell you that we will be going back again whenever we can afford to. The admission isn't bad, just the driving. The living history museum is over and hour and a half northeast of us.

There were plenty of activities for the children. All of them were geared for the school aged child but they were also great for the little ones. Sissy had more hands-on activities than she could possibly do. There was a real school day with a school master, a house set up for parlor games and outside play, a sewing activity and here she is grinding corn.

Landis Valley is a living museum village. They have a shop set up for everything that a Colonial village would need. We visited them all. There was a leather shop, print shop, general store, tavern, school, blacksmith shop, a hotel, log farm (including house, barn and out buildings), fire house, several buildings set up as museum display areas and quit a few other houses and buildings that had been moved there from other locations around the state. I do believe that they were all historical houses rescued from being demolished.

There were alot of people dressed in period clothes, demonstrating activities in the building that I listed above. The fellows in the tavern were baking and displaying period foods, the school master was giving lessons and the blacksmith was banging away with his hammer. One of my favorites was the general store. I only wish that they had things for sale in there instead of just for display.

One of the neatest demonstrations was hand shearing of sheep.
 

Very, very cool! Here is a link to their website:

http://www.landisvalleymuseum.org/