View the history of Churchill County contained within our walls...

Exhibits

The museum truly brings the past to life and its changing displays and programs involve the community and our guests in preserving these important pages in the history of the settling of the West. At the museum, you will see:

• Displays that represent the day-to-day life of the valley's earliest inhabitants to the "entrymen" farmers and ranchers that came to farm the newly- reclaimed lands of the Newlands Project
• Reminders of the hardships the pioneers faced as they crossed the Forty-Mile Desert
• One of the few remaining Springfield Steam Road Rollers used in building Lahontan Dam
• Antique carriages, fire engines and more!

	A variety of hand-woven Native American baskets are on display in the museum including cradle boards, roasting and winnowing baskets, woven water pitchers waterproofed with pine pitch, burden baskets, and more.		This Pioneer Kitchen exhibit shows what life was like in Churchill County around the turn of the 20th century.
	A new exhibit installed in January of 1999 allowed the museum staff to reinterpret three events in Churchill County history. Part of the exhibit educates viewers as to how the Paiute peoples survived in this area.		The two other subjects within this exhibit include tales of emigrants crossing the dreaded 40-Mile Desert in the 1850s and wildlife in the Stillwater Wildlife Refuge.
	The Woodliff Novelty Store - This store is one of the oldest buildings in Fallon. It was moved to the museum in 1982, restored and opened to the public in 1984. The restoration was sponsored by the Woodliff Company and the Churchill County Museum Association. The post office boxes from Hazen, Nevada, in use from 1904 to 1977, are also housed in the building.		Located next to the  Woodliff Novelty Store is the Deseree Walker Memorial Children’s Pioneer Garden, a nice place to sit and relax