This is a great museum with outdoor exhibits of old cars, appliances etc. Also rooms where you can wander through and look at unusual and interesting antiques. The volunteer docents were helpful and friendly. I was interested in a old Mustache cup and saucer which...More

This is an excellent free outdoor museum that covers a lot of history. Excellent preserved buildings with interior displays of what would have been in them when they were built. There is an extensive exhibit of mining and lumber equipment as well as a barn...More

This was opposite our hotel so was easy to get to. Anyone with walking difficulties should enter from the street at the top of the hill through the gate as there are a lot of steps up from the bottom The museum was a really...More

Interesting museum. Lots of old time pieces to look at, and buildings to see. Really enjoyed our tour of this museum.

The Shafer Museum is full of artifacts from the earlier days of the Methow Valley and Winthrop. Wandering through the buildings, arrayed like a small village we got a clear sense of what life must have been like for the early settlers. We had the...More

For a small donation, take a self-guided tour back in time through a small western town. Amazing to see the advances in ground transportation, building architecture, and mechanical development since the late 1800's. Be sure to sign the guest registry in the Castle, and bring...More

My wife and I spent a lot of time here learning about the settlement of Winthrop and its environs, as well as the labors of the white inhabitants and the industries that sustained the early white residents. The artifacts and posted information were fascinating; however,...More