Rusk County Historical Society Museum
About Rusk County Historical Society Museum
The Rusk County Historical Society Museum is a museum in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, United States. The museum contains over 9,000 artifacts relating to the history of Rusk County. The Rusk County Historical Society was incorporated in 1955 and is a non-profit organization. The historical society has a museum that is located at the Rusk County Fairgrounds in Ladysmith, WI. The museum is open from 12:30-4:30 on weekends Memorial Day through Labor Day. The objectives of the society are the discovery, preservation, and public dissemination of the history of Rusk County and the State of Wisconsin.
The museum is an open air style museum that consists of several different buildings that are connected by walkways. Buildings at the museum include the following:
Henry Golat Welcome and Research Building
Little Red Schoolhouse
Teacher's Cabin
Gates County Courthouse
Log Cabin
Flambeau Mine Visitors Center
Jones LeCount Military Building
Logging and Farm Equipment Building
Glen Flora Jail
Farm Machine Shed
NATO Tank
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- 1955
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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 37 miles of Rusk County Historical Society Museum; the closest, Children's Museum of the Flambeau Valley, is about a mile away.
