Menominee Range Historical Museum
300 East Ludington Street
Open June 3 through Labor Day
Iron Mountain, MI 49801
Hours: 11 am - 3 pm Tuesday - Friday
Seasonal Phone: (906) 774-4276
Call for Fall Hours
Admission Rates: Click here
The Menominee Range Historical Museum collections are housed in the
former Carnegie Public Library, built in 1901-1902 with a gift of $17,500
from Andrew Carnegie. The Carnegie Public Library opened April 15, 1902,
serving as Iron Mountain's public library and later the Dickinson County
Library until the new Dickinson County Library opened April 16, 1969. On
July 6, 1974, the building was dedicated as the Menominee Range
Historical Foundation Museum and was added to the Michigan State
Register of Historic Sites in May, 1977.
The Museum features over 100
exhibits depicting life on the Menominee Iron Range from the latter part of
the nineteenth century through the early years of the twentieth century.
The country store welcomes visitors upon entering the museum, stocked
with a wide variety of life's necessities from the turn of the twentieth
century.
Dating from between 1650 and 1756,
this dugout canoe, found on the West
Branch of the Sturgeon River near Foster City, Dickinson County, Michigan,
highlights a collection of regional Native American artifacts. A birch bark
canoe made by the Menominee Indians who lived in Badwater is also
displayed, dating from the early 1900's when their canoes were sold for one
dollar per foot.
Early area settlement is shown by a
Native American diorama, a trapper's
cabin, trading post and real estate office. Lumberjack tools, a gun
collection and the interior of an iron mine round out displays focusing on
early area history.
The late Victorian parlor, center of family activity on special days, contains
a pump organ, an Edison photograph with elaborately painted morning
glory horn and an antique grandfather's clock. A typical bedroom is
located in the adjoining diorama.
The late Victorian kitchen bustles with activity with the cook stove and woodbox next to the back door and the
well-stocked Hoosier cupboard.
A barber shop, doctor's office, dentist's office, pharmacy, watchmaker's shop, ice house, milk house, barn and
stable help round out the depictions of everyday life around 1900. Children can sit in the graduated desks,
complete with ink wells, in the schoolroom.
A moonshine still, folding bathtub, hand-cranked washing machine, early musical instruments, mechanical banks
and early doll collection prove interesting to visitors.
Menominee Range Historical Museum
300 East Ludington Street
Iron Mountain, MI 49801
Seasonal Phone: (906) 774-4276
Open June 3 through Labor Day
Hours: 11 am - 3 pm Tuesday - Friday
Call for Fall Hours
Admission Rates: Click here
The Menominee Range Historical
Museum collections are housed in
the former Carnegie Public
Library, built in 1901-1902 with a
gift of $17,500 from Andrew
Carnegie. The Carnegie Public
Library opened April 15, 1902, serving as Iron
Mountain's public library and later the Dickinson County
Library until the new Dickinson County Library opened
April 16, 1969. On July 6, 1974, the building was
dedicated as the Menominee Range Historical
Foundation Museum and was added to the Michigan
State Register of Historic Sites in May, 1977.
The Museum features over 100
exhibits depicting life on the
Menominee Iron Range from the
latter part of the nineteenth
century through the early years of
the twentieth century.
The country store welcomes visitors upon entering the
museum, stocked with a wide variety of life's necessities
from the turn of the twentieth century.
Dating from between 1650 and
1756, this dugout canoe, found on
the West Branch of the Sturgeon
River near Foster City, Dickinson
County, Michigan, highlights a
collection of regional Native
American artifacts. A birch bark canoe made by the
Menominee Indians who lived in Badwater is also
displayed, dating from the early 1900's when their
canoes were sold for one dollar per foot.
Early area settlement is shown
by a Native American diorama, a
trapper's cabin, trading post and
real estate office. Lumberjack
tools, a gun collection and the
interior of an iron mine round out
displays focusing on early area history.
The late Victorian parlor, center of family activity on
special days, contains a pump organ, an Edison
photograph with elaborately painted morning glory horn
and an antique grandfather's clock. A typical bedroom is
located in the adjoining diorama.
The late Victorian kitchen bustles with activity with the
cook stove and woodbox next to the back door and the
well-stocked Hoosier cupboard.
A barber shop, doctor's office, dentist's office, pharmacy,
watchmaker's shop, ice house, milk house, barn and
stable help round out the depictions of everyday life
around 1900. Children can sit in the graduated desks,
complete with ink wells, in the schoolroom.
A moonshine still, folding bathtub, hand-cranked washing
machine, early musical instruments, mechanical banks
and early doll collection prove interesting to visitors.