A great museum, anyone would enjoy, especially if your interested in local history. Plan on spending at least a couple hours. Their quilt show brings in guests from all over. Check on this and other special events on their website.
The WCHS is a nice museum with interesting Warren County and Shaker exhibits. It is connected to the old post office which has been renovated into a fabulous rental location. Glendower Mansion is also related to the museum and is only 2 blocks away. When you are done visiting, the Golden Lamb is right down the street for a quiet dinner.
Everything was just as I expected, relaxing and fun, lots of fun places to visit and malls for shopping.
The History Museum has the complete history of the Shakers in this area. Ask if Glendower is open, this is their 1840 house on the hill just a short walk from the Museum
We especially liked the Underground Railroad exhibit, the "Downton Abbey" clothes, and the Shaker display
I went in asking for a 'walking tour of the historic district' as I'd been told they had them. One staff member actually seemed annoyed about my request. She followed me into the gift shop to ask WHO exactly had told me they had walking tour info as I was the THIRD person who had asked in the past week. It appears she did not appreciate being asked about it. To which I would suggest ... given they are part of the historic district, maybe a walking tour guide would be a GOOD IDEA!. I would not go back.
My daughter and I love going to the Warren County Historical Society Museum and Glendower Museum. Both are inexpensive but full of lots of historical artifacts and interesting information. My daughter has always loved the recreated 1800's town inside. And as far as Glendower Museum goes, it is great fun being led through the house by tour guides in historical costume. There is just so much to learn and they make it very interesting. If going to Lebanon for a day, i would recommend both of these activities!
Glendower was so beautifully decorated. The museum is always very interesting, especially the Shaker exhibit.
It was a great learning and fun day. To have brooke see 3 or 4 floors of great things of days gone. There was old things from like 1800s.And ladies they give a great tour for little money.It took us like 3 HRS to see it all.
Nothing wrong with this place, so much fun to see how they display fully decorated rooms and to see so many tools of the time. For such a small entrance fee you really get a lot of knowledge about the history going back 200 yrs! There is a fabulous resource library where you can look up all kinds of info about Lebanon all the way back to the founding. You should not miss this place especially if you are home schooling.