Big Barn Exhibits

Dudley Farm was a working farm for two centuries and much of the action took place in our massive Big Barn, built in stages over the last decades of the nineteenth century.  We have four self-guided exhibits in the barn that are open whenever the house museum is open. Weathering Change explores the challenges facing nineteenth century farmers and includes our life-sized Miss Molly cow which allows visitors to experience “milking.” The Workshop shows how people made and adapted their own tools from wood and metal and the Granary shows how grain for animal feed was winnowed and stored.  The Milkhouse exhibit describes the massive changes brought about in dairy farming by the increasing urban populations and the beginnings of state management of agriculture.