Agricultural museum

Museo Castillo Serralles is an agricultural museum in Ponce, Puerto Rico, that showcases the sugar cane and its derivative rum industry
Sarka is an agricultural museum in Loimaa, Finland, that presents 3,000 years of Finnish agriculture[1]

An agricultural museum is a museum dedicated to preserving agricultural history and heritage.[2] It aims to educate the public on the subject of agricultural history, their legacy and impact on society.[3] To accomplish this, it specializes in the display and interpretation of artifacts related to agriculture, often of a specific time period or in a specific region. They may also display memorabilia related to farmers or businesspeople who impacted society via agriculture (for example, size of the land cultivated as compared to other farmers) or agricultural advances (for example, technology implementation).

An agricultural museum is said to be diachronic if it presents the entire narrative associated with subject of agriculture within its walls, or to be synchronic if it limits its displays to a single experience.[4]

  1. ^ "Sarka". Visit Turku (in Finnish). 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  2. ^ Welcome to Delaware Agricultural Museum Association. Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village. 2019. Accessed 31 January 2019.
  3. ^ How Food Earned Its Place in American Museums. Tove Danovich. Eater. 23 October 2015. Accessed 31 January 2019.
  4. ^ Kilgerman, Eric. Sites of the Uncanny: Paul Celan, Specularity and the Visual Arts, p. 255 (2007).