Huber Machinery Museum — Attraction in Marion

DEFINITELY a MUST visit museum! The volunteers are so knowledgeable and were really interesting. The Huber Machinery Museum is home to Edward Huber's original inventions. His 1st patented invention was the Revolving Wood Hay Rake which cost $5.00 in 1863. After creating farming equipment he moved on to heavy construction equipment and shovels that were used to build the Panama Canal and the Hoover Dam. His company also built crawler-transporters that NASA used to move Apollo's rockets and space shuttles to...

Fantastic collection of old machinery and photos and models and antique technical books! The guides are a tremendous source of information and stories, too! This company even built the famous NASA crawler transporter and you can see parts, specs, historic dots and much more. It reminds me in some ways of the Henry Ford museum.

Mind boggling examples of the human intellect modifying the raw materials of our environment to...

This little gem of a museum is an excellent find/stop! So much history about machinery (with an obvious nod to the local Huber company). The docents are incredibly friendly and knowledgeable - take their 10 min tour for some interesting tidbits, then search the museum yourself. You'll need about an hour, and they are only open on Saturdays 1-4, March thru November. Go and enjoy some...