2024 Events
Speaker’s Series, 2024
Come learn more about Polk County’s History from folks who love Polk County as much as we do! If you’d like to be a featured presenter, please contact info@polkcountymuseum.org.
Speaker’s Series are normally once per month in the off-season (i.e. November - April). Admission, unless otherwise noted, is free! Upcoming events for 2024 will be posted below.
February 20, 2024 | 1:00 PM: Ed Johansen | Happy Danes, Sad Danes: Danish Immigration to Polk County
March 19, 2024 | 1:00 PM: AT Glenna Farms (1333 120th St., Amery) | Maple syrup production and taste-testing
April 30, 2024 | 1:00 PM: Olaf Danielson | History of Bridges & Ferry Crossings Along Wisconsin’s Western Border
To register for one or more of the events, please click on the registration form link below.
Summer Pioneer School
Each summer the Polk County Historical Society hosts two sessions of a Pioneer School for students in our Lansdale School. Students participate in 1880’s academics, games, music and pioneer skills in this one-room school house.
To make this unique program successful, we only accept children ages 6-14 who are interested in experiencing reading, writing, and arithmetic lessons as taught 100 years ago. Our goal is to provide children with an understanding of the history of education in an authentic one room schoolhouse and to have fun. There will be lots of old-fashioned games, stories, and music.
Students are asked to dress as children did in the early 1900’s; for girls, long dresses, and bonnets; for boys, bib-overalls, knickers, and suspenders, if available.
Lunches should be brought in baskets, pails, or handkerchiefs with drinks in lidded glass jars. Please no soda pop, chips, or packaged snacks. Clothing and lunch pails are available to borrow.
Session One of the Pioneer School will be held August 6 - 8 and Session Two will be held August 13 - 15. School will be held from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM each day.
To register your child for the 2024 Pioneer School, please click on the link below, then click on the payment link to complete your child’s registration.
The fee for each three-day session is $35.00 per child.
School Tours
Each year we conduct school tours of the museum for local students, led by Society members, with a special program by Chief Dan Mosay. Tours are perfect for fourth graders who are learning about state history, middle and high school civics courses, or general history courses!
These tours are free for students from area schools. If you are an educator and would like to schedule a tour, please contact info@polkcountymuseum.org.