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    Great interactive museum for all ages. Climb aboard a train, see a 1947 army plane with educational video, an amazing lego display, a ton of antique cars, tools and household equipment from days gone by, black smith demonstrations, fire trucks and more. If you haven't been to this local treasure you are missing out!

    My two-year-old son has a blast every time we come here. For him, the highlights are the model trains, the button-operated circus scene, the player piano, the antique fire truck he can sit in, and the steam locomotive outside. Kids can easily spend a couple hours just wandering and pressing buttons. That said, this makes for an interesting visit for adults as well, as there's classic cars, antique machinery, antique toys, and all sorts of other things to see. Their website does a good job of describing it all. The volunteers that work at the museum (mostly retired) are happy to talk about any of the exhibits. A couple important notes - the museum is only open from May to October, Wed-Sun, 12-5pm. There's no air conditioning - it can get a bit warm on hot afternoons - so plan accordingly.

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    We had an amazing time going through here! Plenty of cool artifacts and treasures to be seen.

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    Fantastic automotive, trains and construction equipment made in Peoria and elsewhere.

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    Funk Prairie Home Museum

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    Another five star review. There are three museums to tour here: the house; the rock and gem museum;…read moreand apparently the farm tools. Figure an hour per museum; I only had time for two. The docent lives on-site and is passionate about the Funk family; there was almost too much information about the family (perhaps as I was touring the house with two Funk family members in town for a reunion). I've toured a lot of Victorian houses, but one of the things that's interesting about this one is the amount of innovation you'll see highlighted here. This starts in the garden, where there is a small power plant (the farm had electricity in the early 1900s, before parts of Chicago), and is continued as you learn to know the family, whether they be inventors of hybrid seeds, or rock afficianados. Unlike many houses, here you can get close to things; there are no velvet ropes or plastic barriers, except one to keep you out of the servants' stairs. So you can look close up at the hat pins or beaded bags on the dressers. Ask questions - you can't stump this docent. (We had a discussion about concrete and its use in the fence and the caretaker's building which was really quite interesting. If you have engineer friends, they will love this tour.) The rock museum features some truly impressive fossils, some of which you might be allowed to touch! There's a dragonfly fossilized in ash; coprolite (look it up), and dinosaur bone (apparently fairly common?). There's a whole wall of different types of calcite; giant gorgeous blue and purple fluorite specimens; lit-from-the-back beautiful agates and rubies in zoisite; and in the NEXT room (!) two or three cabinets of beautiful Chinese carved soapstone, and a collection of sleighs. The finale is a cabinet full of fluorescing rocks, including melted glass from a nuclear reactor. Made me wish this museum had a gift shop, though the docent will be happy to give you recommendations for good local rock shops. This is a really great museum hidden in the cornfields. Worth a trip - I drove two hours to get here, thinking I was coming for the rocks, but the house was almost/ just as good.

    Totally recommended - A wonderfully preserved house and grounds and our guide was able to bring the…read morewhole place to life with his insight and knowledge of the Funk family and their incredible history - and then in the Gem Museum we saw further dimensions to him as he walked us through this small fragment ( 20% ) of the massive and impressive collection gathered from all corners of the World.

    Wheels O' Time - museums - Updated May 2026

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