Lubbock, Texas
I appreciate the purpose of this museum to preserve history but the American Museum of Agriculture is a huge work in progress. It seemed to be a room full of preview exhibits of what was to come for the future museum, which is probably true in some respect. There are plans and pictures and even a hologram of the future museum in different areas, with labels of interactive exhibits, hands on children areas and much larger displays. Only a third of what the museum has now is on display in this museum. The museum charges an admission, we were able to get in half price with the military discount. Old tractors and farm equipment are on display outside the large red barn which houses the museum and you can view these as you drive up to the parking lot. Large, restored tractors are on show inside, as well as a cotton gin exhibit, a room full of donated tractor ride-ons and toys, plow displays, and butter churns and household items from the early agriculture era. Other rooms off to the back were incomplete with workers busy in them. Through out the hall, description cards list the time period of the tractors and the use. Video screens were around, though they were not on, but I assume they would explain a little more about farming in general. A small version of a cotton gin was also on display to show how they work, it was not on , but we had to ask twice if we could see it work. The future museum definitely seems to be more geared to offer information though this small preview was not. I am assuming that the admission charge to go into the museum will be used for the future financing of the larger museum. The kids had a lot of questions that I could not answer and I was a little surprised to find such a lack of material. Viewing the tractors and the farm tools were the kids favorite thing to do. 
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