Fenimore Farm and Country Village

As one of the oldest rural life museums in the country, The Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown, NY provides visitors with a unique opportunity to experience 19th-century rural & village life through demonstrations and interpretive exhibits. The museum, founded in 1943, comprises a working farmstead, a recreated historic village, Empire State Carousel, and a Colonial Revival stone barn listed on the National Register for Historic Places. The museum preserves important examples of upstate NY architecture, early agricultural tools and equipment, and heritage livestock. Its collection encompasses over 23,000 significant historic objects ranging from butter molds to carriages, hand planes to plows.