This is your starting point and features our information/admissions area, an exhibit gallery, video presentations, and restrooms.

The Sexton’s House, dates from c.1850 and came from a church next to the museum. On one side of the building is a permanent exhibit “The Mennonite Faith in Landis Valley”, while the other is a leatherworking exhibit.

These re-created structures and gardens is representative of a Pennsylvania German farmstead of the period 1750-1800.

This original farmhouse interprets the period 1830 when Jacob and Elizabeth Landis lived here. This Mennonite family farmed and operated a blacksmith shop on this main road.

Jacob and Elizabeth Landis build this house for their retirement about 1840 when they turned the larger Brick Farmstead over to their son Jacob Landis, Jr..

This Blacksmith Shop was moved here from Gettysburg and interprets the trade during the period 1880-1900.

This building houses a major exhibit of Pennsylvania German farm machinery and tools from Colonial era into the twentieth century.

Built at the crossroads, c. 1856, by Jacob Landis Jr., this original building is furnished to recapture life during the late 1800s. In its heyday, boarders stayed overnight after long journeys and mingled with the local people gathered there for food and drink. Today, the Hotel provides a historic atmosphere for prearranged group lunches and dinners.

Built as an Amish school in 1890 within three miles of the museum, the building and its complete original furnishings were moved here. It depicts the period 1890-1900.

This typical 1900 rural store recreates “one-stop shopping.” Inside you will be captivated by a fully stocked early 20th century store with everything from canned foods to curling irons and our tobacco wooden Indian. A store guide will explain various popular items from yesteryear.

The Firehouse, dates from c.1970, and is representative of a rural firehouse in the late 1800s.

This recreated building interprets the tinsmith trade of the mid-nineteenth century.

The original Victorian house was the home of the museum’s founders, George D. and Henry K. Landis. Built in the 1870s by their parents, it is furnished to the period of 1900

In 1939 the Landis Brothers erected this barn as an exhibit hall for their growing collection and now it is used as an educational space, and for special events and wedding receptions.

This circa 1820 log house was relocated from its original site on West Orange Street in Lancaster. It represents an urban Pennsylvania German dwelling of the early nineteenth century.

Experience sights and aromas of open-hearth cooking while our innkeeper interprets tavern life and discusses the day’s activities of an 1800s tavern

Examples of the famous Pennsylvania rifle are exhibited here, along with handguns and period gunsmithing tools, as well as old bear traps and historical fishing gear. Early gun-making demonstrations are offered.

This exhibit of textile tools features spinning and weaving demonstrations, as well as the many facets of early Pennsylvania German crafts, including a dyer’s garden next to it.

This original 1870s house includes a hands-on children’s activity room and educational space.

Walk in and you’ll typically find craftspeople and local artisan interpreters. Browse our selection of pottery, wood, fiber arts, metal arts, jewelry, cards, books, artwork, heirloom seeds grown by the Heirloom Seed Project, and much more!

This state-of-the-art facility displays the museum’s decorative arts collection. Visitors can view rotating exhibits and see behind-the scenes curatorial work in progress.