Both the museum and research facility are open year round Tuesday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m. Closed Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.
The mission of the Ely-Winton History Museum is to arrange rotating displays of historical artifacts in a visible public place, and this continues to this day. Newspaper articles about local history were written from time to time, but now these articles are specifically related to the artifacts and themes of the rotating displays. The first display window featured mining and logging artifacts. Our current one features pictures and artifacts centering on the beginnings of all 13 area churches. These exhibits still meet three of the original stated purposes: collecting and preserving, educating, and providing information for tourists.
The Ely-Winton History Museum desires to help you understand the land in which we live and what it offered to the people who lived here. A community arose as people from diverse backrounds came here to make a living and fulfill their dreams. The museum interprets what these people experienced in this land, what they strove for, how they coped with problems, what they achieved, and what they have passed down to their descendants. Using photographs, maps and artifacts, the displays present the different phases of 12,000 years of local history from prehistoric to the present.
Exhibits, Books, DVDs, Pictures, Research
