bayer museum of agriculture

This place has a lot of older equipment and displays showing how Agriculture was accomplished in the old days. If you enjoy museums and agriculture, you will love it. It is also a very fine place for meetings and get togethers with lots of room.

This museum serves as a living memorial to the thousands of farm families that were pioneers in agriculture. It recognizes the region‘s agricultural heritage and displays a large collection of the machinery that was a part of the technological transformation that took place on the South Plains of Texas farms. The tractors, combines, plows, drills, and thousands of other farm-related artifacts are part of the Lubbock County Historical Collection.The museum is located on a beautiful 24.87-acre tract on the east side of downtown adjacent to Mackenzie Park. This prime site affords ample space and a stunning view of the downtown skyline. The site offers the museum the opportunity to interpret and showcase its tremendous collection in both outdoor and indoor settings. Other features include a main exhibit hall, Plains Cotton Growers Meeting Room, catering kitchen and spacious outdoor patio.Make it a day and also visit the nearby American Wind Power Center & Museum.

Had not been here in some time and how it has grown. Huge buildings and hillside grounds contain all kinds of interactive exhibits and historical displays going back to pioneer days. Actual equipment and tractors are everwhere. A unique exhibit had over 70 pedal tractors and literally hundreds and hundreds of collectible toy tractors!

Surprised me, it is very well laid out, and extremely interesting, highly recommend this museum. There is an array of old agriculture machinery, photos, etc and they all work. And great people walking around to tell their story !

I grew up on a farm and seeing the antique farm equipment brought back old memories. This was a very nice facility and the curator was very friendly and informative.

The correct street address for this museum is 1121 Canyon Lake Drive. My brand new GPS sent me about 4 blocks away, where it was previously located. Go to this address and you will find it. The museum has a huge collection of tractors of all brands. It also has kids pedal tractor and model tractor collections. There's a display on cotton and how it is processed. It has several farm implements. There is also a blacksmith shop with 3 short videos. All of of this is indoors. There are outside displays but they are not labeled as well and most are pretty rusty. When we were there in mid-week, there were plenty of knowledgeable docents who were anxious to answer questions.

If you would like to learn more about how that cotton you love in your jeans and shirt got there, this museum needs to be at the top of your to-see list. Priceless contrast across 100 years of cotton ginning machinery from original wooden models to the latest stainless steel and touch screen versions, all accomplishing the same thing, just on different scales of magnitude. Holographic tour of a blacksmith's shop is worth the visit by itself. Lubbock is not renowned for its 1,000 lakes or mountain vistas, but it is known as the largest cotton patch in the world. If you would visit a brewery in St. Louis or a creamery in Milwaukee, you need to put cotton gin history on your bucket list when you come through Lubbock and this museum needs to be your first stop to get a great overview of the process.

Within 1/2m. of the Wind Power Museum in Lubbock is this, another gem of a museum.We only visited because of its' proximity to the aforementioned wind power museum, not being 'of the land' people but boy, are we glad we did!We had put Lubbock on the itinerary for our touring holiday primarily to pay tribute to Buddy Holly but found these museums a big bonus.The majority of exhibits are housed in a very large warehouse type building accessed via a driveway through lawned grounds dotted with out - buildings and various farming implements.We were greeted at the door by an elderly but very knowledgeable gent who proceeded to give us a comprehensive guided tour, explaining the types of tractors on display and their specific purpose in each case. The variety is enormous with possibly as many as 40 or 50 crammed into the immaculately presented building. In addition to these vehicles, there are harvesters for cereal crops of all types from wheat to corn and also ground - works preparation machinery. Every one is in running order and obviously well maintained and in excellent cosmetic order.Dotted about are numerous tableau depicting farming processes and there is a large display of farm vehicle models for the boy in us to drool over as well as a number of videos. Also, we were shown around the workshops where ongoing renovations are taking place, with a large selection of both modern and old tools on display.After the tour was completed, we were left to wander at will, taking photos as and when we wished.This is a superb museum which would interest anyone of a mechanical bent and we count ourselves fortunate that chance bought us to it. We can unreservedly recommend it.

If you are interested in your heritage in American Agriculture, do not miss this museum. It is across the road from the Windpower Museum.The exhibits are excellently restored. There is a wonderful cotton display as well as a blacksmith shop and a tool shop.The entrance fee is only $5.00 and well worth it. They have dedicated docents to guide you and explain things.

The museum is just starting out in this location. It has a very nice collection of tractors that my 7 year old son loved. The displays that were at up were done nicely. Many of the displays have a nice description, but others did not. There was soo much stuff there that I often found myself telking my son I dont know what that is. But I do think that it will be much more informative once they finish setting up. We entered family of 4 for donation of $20, but I think the actual door charge is a little less.

This museum is in it's infancy, but it's already worth the visit. Do you know where your whole grain cereal begins? Do you think cotton grows on trees? Most of us know we can count on the department store to sell us soft cotton towels, or the grocery store to sell us our favorite foods, but we seldom stop to think about where it all comes from.... visit the Ag Museum and learn.

Enjoyed all the information on how agri is done especiallly with bovine, equine, fowl and mainly vegetation resources and how to use them in a friendly way.

If you like old farm machinery and tractors, this is a place for you to spend an afternoon.Go when the weather is comfortable, there is no A/C. and some of the exhibits are outside.

Everything you want tro know about how your grandparents farmed!

While we didn’t get a chance to tour the interior of this museum, it is clearly visible from the adjoining hillside upon which the American Wind Power Museum sits. From the American Wind Power Museum, I could see a multitude of antique to late 20th century farm equipment on display outside, including large harvesting equipment, tractors, and other implements. Regretfully we were running late and didn’t get to see the equipment up close, but it looks like this museum would make a great companion visit to the neighboring American Wind Power Center for those interested in agriculture, Western or farming history, or machinery.