Heritage Farm Museum & Village

Heritage Farm Village and Museum seen from above, featuring wooden buildings, a red barn, and a steel windmill connected by gravel paths.

Our Home at Heritage Farm

Heritage Farm Museum & Village is a recreated 19th century Appalachian village that includes museums, animal exhibits, artisans, and an adventure park. Experience life for the region’s settlers from the 1850s onward, interact with animals in the petting zoo and nature center, see talented artisans work, and embrace adventure on the ziplines, high ropes courses, and mountain bike park. Their friendly staff and museum guides are ready at every turn to help create a memorable day for guests of all ages.

Large, cozy yellow tents glow from the inside, set against a dark sky and the silhouettes of trees.

A large brown wooden barn stands among green fields and rolling hills.

Lodging

While most guests visit simply for a day, Heritage Farm does offer a variety of overnight lodging options. Some groups (like SAS!) love to sleep close to nature in cozy tents, while other groups choose to stay in one of the Inns or in the Barn Retreat Center, an original 1800s dairy barn outfitted with modern amenities (which SAS uses for Shower Hour!).

Inside a blacksmith's shop full of metal tools, a smiling student wearing a Science Adventure School t-shirt holds a large hammer, while standing next to a blacksmith and a forge with visible fire.

Smiling students sit in an old-fashioned, open-air wagon hitched behind a tractor.

Museums

Heritage Farm's seven museums contain an astonishing variety and quantity of antiques and artifacts from Appalachian history, much of which came directly from the Huntington, WV area. From old-fashioned washing machines and hundred-year-old electric vehicles to a working blacksmith shop, there's something fascinating for everyone at Heritage Farm, West Virginia's only Smithsonian Affiliate museum.

Inside the Heritage Farm Nature Center, terraria containing salamanders, crayfish, and a bullfrog line the walls, which are molded to look like natural rock.

A student pets a gray and white pig in a straw-filled stable, while two other students look on.

Natural Heritage

Highlighting both wild and domesticated animals, Heritage Farm welcomes families and school groups to meet heritage breed farm animals in their Critter Corner and native fauna in their Nature Center.

A boy smiles and runs through a large cargo net, high in the tree canopy on the Treehouse Trek.

Students wearing Science Adventure School t-shirts climb on a two-level, wooden challenge course, featuring wooden bridges and ropes.

Outdoor Adventures

Heritage Farm offers outdoor thrills for kids and adults alike, including two challenge courses, an amazing 1100-foot long dual ziplines, mountain bike trails and rentals, and more! SAS students love Wilder's Zip-n-Climb, a two-level challenge course with a short zipline, and the Treehouse Trek, a series of wooden bridges that take visitors into the tree canopy to get eye-to-eye with birds and squirrels!

For more information about Heritage Farm, please visit their website: https://heritagefarmmuseum.com/

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