{"id":423,"date":"2015-12-06T21:33:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T03:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daytripper28.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2023-07-22T16:25:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T21:25:55","slug":"john-deere-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daytripper28.com\/john-deere-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The John Deere Tractor Museum in Waterloo Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What kid does not love tractors? While I may be a Minnesota native, my parents grew up in Waterloo. That meant that most holidays and weekends, we would take the trek down to Waterloo often. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all of my years going there, I have never seen the John Deere Tractor Museum in Waterloo Iowa<\/a>. How can a person have visited there for almost 30 years without once passing by the place! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that I’m making the same trek with my kids there, I figured we had to check the John Deere Tractor Museum out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The John Deere Tractor Museum Waterloo Iowa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The factory has both a museum and factory tours. If you are ever in the area, just driving by it is impressive. They have fields all over where they are testing equipment out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The factory tours are available Monday-Friday at 8, 10 and 1 which meant that we were out of luck for this weekend but the John Deere Tractor Museum in Waterloo Iowa was open on Saturdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This weekend they had Santa\u00a0 for the kids to get free pictures with. After saying a quick “Hi”, we got our free coloring book\u00a0and went into the museum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It costs $8 for adults to get in and kids were free. All and all, pretty inexpensive for a family.<\/p>\n\n\n

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John Deere Tractor History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The museum features a lot about the tractors history in a way that I’ve never scene before. Similar to my experience at the Duluth Train Station<\/a>, we got to see how they build their legacy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a city girl, getting to see some of the historic machines up close and personal is a real treat. It goes way beyond the Tractors. They also had fire trucks and other machinery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tractor Exhibits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

They have a short video playing about the history of John Deere. After that you wander back through the history of the company, starting with some of the first plows they made. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the displays\u00a0were labeled with ‘do not touch’ signs. You would think that it would make things challenging with kids, but they had a lot of interactive things to keep them entertained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of my favorites, a plowing demonstration where you try and keep the hand plow straight while they throw pretend obstacles in your way, similar to that of rocks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not as easy as I thought.\u00a0The other fun one was the horsepower measurement. They have\u00a0three ropes ranging from 1\/8- 1\/2 horsepower. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a new level of respect for the amount of weight a horse pulls. Myself and the three kids could barely move the middleweight.<\/p>\n\n\n

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They do offer\u00a0a few of the tractors available for kids to sit on, along with. Drawing station to draft your own tractor design. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also have a lot of staff there to talk about the equipment on display, along with giving use pointers on what the kids would love to check out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The John Deere Tractor Museum ended up being a good little pit stop for the kids this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n

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