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Indiana's Museums Offer Great Getaways for Curious Minds


You don't have to travel far or spend a lot of money to enjoy attractions that celebrate the unusual topics that interest you most. In fact, for those who like venturing off the beaten path, several specialized Indiana museums offer exhibits on everything from medicine and dollhouses to tanks and music.

Although not as well known as some of their larger counterparts, these one-of-a-kind museums located throughout Indiana are fun and affordable reminders of our state's rich history and culture.


Central Indiana: Brains in Jars and Dozens of Dollhouses

If you work in the medical field or simply find it fascinating, The Indiana Medical History Museum on the grounds of Indianapolis' former Central State Hospital is the place to visit. Dedicated to preserving the history of health sciences in Indiana, the museum houses more than 15,000 medical and health-care artifacts from the 19th and early 20th centuries. While touring the historic structure you'll see diseased human brains, antique stethoscopes and X-ray machines, and "quack" devices such as the "ultraviolet ray kit," once used to shoot electric currents through the skin to relieve pain. Medical Landmarks USA refers to the Indiana Medical History Museum as a "marvelous museum quite simply without peer in the entire country."

The museum is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and by appointment. Admission is $5 for adults, $1 for students 18 years and under, and free to children under six.

Just north of Indianapolis is the city of Carmel, where less is always more at the Museum of Miniature Houses and Other Collectibles. Even the museum's largest exhibit - a replica of co-founder Nancy Lesh's childhood home - measures only 15 square feet. But the museum's more than 50 one-of-a-kind exhibits, including furniture, room settings and intricately furnished and lighted miniature houses, have attracted a lot of attention from visitors since it opened in August of 1993.
Many of the miniature houses were built from scratch and furnished with custom-made furniture. One of the museum's tiny houses, a 4-by-6-foot "wedding house," has a dining room table set with Lilliputian dinnerware. Another miniature house is a $15 thrift shop item purchased during the Depression. Hobbyists who no longer have room for dollhouses donated many of the museum's collections. The houses range in value from $700 to $40,000.

Serious collectors and casual observers alike can visit this collection of miniature houses from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. An admission fee - $2 for adults and $1 for children 10 and under - is voluntary.


Northern Indiana: The Place to Blow Off Steam

At the Hesston Steam Museum, an unusual outdoor attraction in rural northern Indiana, nostalgia lovers can explore the bygone era of the steam engine. Visitors can stroll among the machines that once furnished power for a growing America or ride behind a genuine coal-fired steam locomotive through 155 acres of meadows and forests on a two-mile railway line.

Known as an operating museum of restored vintage equipment, the museum's collection includes trains, an electric power plant, a 92-ton crane, a sawmill, traction engines and stationary engines. Easily accessible from I-94 and the Indiana Toll Road, the museum can be a convenient side trip or a special outing.

The museum opens with its Whistle Stop Days on Memorial Day weekend. Hours are noon to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays through Labor Day. Labor Day weekend is the annual date for Hesston's Steam and Power Show, a favorite of thousands each year and recently named one of Indiana's Top 10 Festivals by Travel Agent Magazine. During September and October, the museum is open Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. Train fares are $3 for adults and $2 for children 12 and under.


Eastern Indiana: Gas to Pump and Tanks To Drive

East of Indianapolis along the Old National Road, stop in Knightstown and visit Trump's Texaco Museum, a nostalgia buff's paradise. The museum is a dream come true for owner Bruce Trump, who practically grew up in his father's Texaco station. The 2,000-square-foot museum houses everything from gas pumps with globes to oil cans dating back to the 1920s. The "gas station" looks so authentic that several people have actually stopped to buy gas. (At 32 cents per gallon, who wouldn't?)

More than 9,000 people from more than 30 states and three countries have visited the museum since it opened in 1996. Visitors include Texaco representatives and others just wanting to recapture memories of days gone by.

To make an appointment to visit this museum, call Bruce Trump at 765-345-7135. Admission is free.
If seeing the country's most complete collection of light tanks at the Historical Military Armor Museum in Anderson isn't enough to satisfy your curiosity, you can experience a tank ride through 13 acres of woods adjacent to the museum. And if you work up an appetite, you can get another taste of military life - literally. The museum serves cafeteria-style meals in its realistic mess hall. Housed inside the 30,000-square-foot museum are a variety of vehicles, all of which are completely restored and operational, including trucks, tanks, halftracks and a general's command car.
The museum is open 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Admission is $2.


Western Indiana: A Rotating Jail and Collection of Local History

In Crawfordsville, you can tour the first of seven rotary jails built in the United States. Known today as the Old Jail Museum, the Rotary Jail of Montgomery County was built in 1881 to control prisoners without the necessity of personal contact between the prisoners and the jailer. The rotary cellblock consists of a two-tiered turntable divided into pie-shaped wedges, with a total of 16 cells. The jailer would simply rotate the mechanism to bring a particular cell to the opening to put prisoners into and out of their cells.

The jail was abandoned in the late 1960s and reopened as the Old Jail Museum in 1975. It features exhibits related to local history, art and the Old Jail itself. Items such as Indian artifacts, pioneer artifacts, period costumes and household furnishings are just a few of the things you'll see in the sheriff's residence, an interesting example of late Victorian architecture.

The museum is open to the public April, May, September and October, from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Wednesdays through Sundays. During June, July and August, it is open from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tuesdays and Sundays, and from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays. Admission is $2.


South Central Indiana: The Stone That Withstood King Kong

At Bedford's The Land of Limestone museum, you can see entertaining and educational exhibits that recreate how Lawrence County's famous resource, limestone, was used to build and embellish such distinguished architectural landmarks as the Empire State Building.
Displayed are tools, murals, maps, fossils, historical news accounts and archival and architectural photographs, which demonstrate how this natural resource helped develop a rural 19th century Indiana county into an industrial center for a growing America in the early 1900s.
History, industry, architecture, geology and the arts have been combined in the 500-foot, two-level exhibit, housed in a 1926 Bedford limestone building that is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Exhibit hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, and 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays. Admission is free.


Southern Indiana: Carousels, Organs and Cymbals

For a trip back to the heyday of carousels and carnivals, visit Dale, where at Dr. Ted's Musical Marvels you'll find a colossal collection of street organs, nickelodeons, orchestrions, music boxes, phonographs, player pianos and a wonderful Wurlitzer carousel organ. You'll find gramophones, authentically restored Spanish street pianos and a 12-by-24-foot European dance organ that uses a huge music book to play not only the organ but two accordions, two saxophones, a bass drum, a snare drum, a wood block, a tempo block, cymbals and a high hat. Tour guides not only explain the history of the instruments, they make them come to life.

The museum is open May through September, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays. Admission is $4.50 per adult, $2 for children between the ages of 6 and 12, and free for children under 6.
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So the next time you're looking for something different to do, take a road trip to one of these little-known wonders and bring home with you some interesting facts. You never know when they'll come in handy!

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