The Depot Museum is housed in the historic 1916 Northern Pacific Depot. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The museum features a rotating schedule of exhibits regarding the heritage of Aitkin County.

Riverboating on the upper Mississippi, native culture and unique artifacts fill the exhibit halls. A museum store offers gifts and publications pertaining to area history.

A special treat in the Depot Museum is the coin-operated mechanical horse Champion. Read about Champion here.

A second building at the Depot site is our Log Museum. It offers a unique setting for the many exhibits relating to early pioneer life in Aitkin County. There are re-creations of a lumber camp dining hall, a blacksmith shop, and a country store. In addition, there are numerous tools and artifacts relating to the county's agriculture and building trades industries. The Log Museum is open April to October during the same hours as the Depot Museum, otherwise by special appointment.

Note: A third log building is located at the Aitkin County Fairgrounds; this was the first home of the Aitkin County Historical Society. It was constructed in 1950 with native cedar logs. This building is open during the fair. Click here to read about this wonderful building's history.

We have many artifacts outdoors, including the 1937 Farmall tractor shown at left.