Siuslaw Pioneer Museum — Attraction in Florence

This was a great pioneer museum with so many different areas. This museum is divided into a few different areas. There was an area with the way that the families lived with antique furniture, musical instruments and dishes, etc. Another area showed all about what they did for a living: fishing, farming, and logging, including a model of a local sawmill. There was also an area showing old school pictures and memorabilia. They even had a covered bridge area, with pictures of all of the covered bridges in Lane county. Definitely worth the $5 fee for ages 16+. I would not recommend for young children, as it would be very tempting for little hands to touch all of the treasures on...

A very interesting museum with many interesting items. It's in an old schoolhouse with three rooms downstairs and three upstairs. The downstairs items were 1) things that the pioneers had brought west with them and 2) items from their weeklies (logging, fishing, teaching, etc. Upstairs were some artifacts from the Siuslaw Indians and antique cameras, typewriters, etc. Quite a lot of interesting things to look at. I only wish it had been organized a bit better to tell more of the history of the people, both Native Americans and pioneers. As it was, it was a bit like Grandma's attic, sort of a hodge podge of roughly...

One of the museums we definitely wanted to visit on this trip, unfortunately we weren't aware they were closed on most of the days we were in town. Luckily we had time on a Thursday to drop in, and upon entering we were told on the third Thursday of every month admission is free! (We made a donation anyway.) We loved seeing all the artifacts, from the older musical instruments and phonographs, to the photography and a technology row that included many older typewriters and a familiar-to-me (since I grew up in Silicon Valley) "oldest" portable computer. The docent was lovely, the local history...