The Historic Markerville Creamery Museum opens for its 25th season on Saturday, May 14 at 9:00 a.m. with a Pancake Breakfast.
This is the first event of the season at the Creamery Museum and the public is invited to come for breakfast.
For a fee of $5 visitors can feast on pancakes, ham, coffee, tea and juice. Museum staff will be available to serve in the Kaffistofa (coffee shop) and to offer interpretive tours in the museum.
The Historic Markerville Creamery Museum is nestled in a peaceful hamlet bordered on either side by the Medicine River.
Visitors are encouraged to relax at a picnic table on the creamery grounds after having a guided tour of the museum and learn how butter was made in the 1930s.
Guests are also invited to visit the gift shop and order a lunch in the Kaffistofa and have traditional Icelandic dessert or a delicious ice cream cone. Visitors can have their picture taken while riding or milking one of the interactive ëcows' on display, or play a game with a bean-bag-bull.
Walking tour maps are available from the museum as guests may want wander around the hamlet.
Plaques are visible in each yard to describe what buildings were originally on that land during the peak of commerce in Markerville.
Children can play on the modern playground beside Fensala Hall and photos can be taken by the newly renovated historic church that is now available for event and wedding rentals.
For more information visit www.historicmarkerville.com
