Definition
Institutions that acquire, preserve, research and exhibit permanent and/or traveling collections of objects or artifacts which relate to the history of agriculture, either generally or as it evolved in a particular area. Included may be vintage farm machinery from different eras including horse and ox-drawn, steam, electric, gasoline and diesel powered vehicles; farming implements; dairy equipment; crop dusting aircraft; smokehouse equipment; antique wagons; renovated sawmills; replicas of farm houses with furnishings, barns or other farm structures; historical documents and photographs; and dioramas and exhibits which show the history of farming from subsistence level to modern industrialization.
URL Name
TA-5500-0300
Third Level Code
TA-5500
Taxonomy Code
TA-5500.0300
Parent Code
TA-5500
Family Code
T
Second Level Code
TA
Fourth Level Code
TA-5500-0300
Publication Status
Online