Enjoy these winter weekends by exploring a handful of historic buildings in the Village, embrace the winter by snowshoeing, cross-country skiing or sledding.

Waste not, want not! Join in this thrifty person’s guide to repairing your clothes and other popular items. Bring an item to mend and give it new life.

Do you knit, crochet, sew, quilt, draw, paint, scrapbook, embroider, whittle, or anything else? Bring something to work on while you enjoy community engagement! Meet other crafters and artisans in your community, and maybe even pick up a new skill.

Enjoy these winter weekends by exploring a handful of historic buildings in the Village, embrace the winter by snowshoeing, cross-country skiing or sledding.

Experience a meal you’ll never forget! Join our historical cooks as they serve a historic meal in the Meeme House, located in our Historic Village. Guests will play parlor games, be served a family style meal (prepared by a local restaurant), and enjoy a choice of historically-inspired beverages.

This Valentine’s Day, let the sparks fly with our themed blacksmithing workshop - built for two! In this class, we will cover some of the basics of forging steel and move on to making hearts that you can share with your special valentine.

Explore the Victorian kitchen, while instilling a love of cooking in your kids!  Learn how to read a recipe, measure and mix ingredients, and roll out dough the old-fashioned away! Wash and dry dishes and bring in wood for the wood box. This basic woodstove cooking class is designed to get kids and adults busy in the kitchen with kid-friendly recipes and hands-on tasks.

Do you knit, crochet, sew, quilt, draw, paint, scrapbook, embroider, whittle, or anything else? Bring something to work on while you enjoy community engagement! Meet other crafters and artisans in your community, and maybe even pick up a new skill.

America 250 for us is a celebration of the generations it took to get the USA to where it is today. We invite you to explore and write your own American story.

Enjoy these winter weekends by exploring a handful of historic buildings in the Village, embrace the winter by snowshoeing, cross-country skiing or sledding.

Experience a meal you’ll never forget! Join our historical cooks as they serve a historic meal in the Meeme House, located in our Historic Village. Guests will play parlor games, be served a family style meal (prepared by a local restaurant), and enjoy a choice of historically-inspired beverages.

Enjoy live Irish music, participate in traditional square and Ceilidh dances. 

Do you knit, crochet, sew, quilt, draw, paint, scrapbook, embroider, whittle, or anything else? Bring something to work on while you enjoy community engagement! Meet other crafters and artisans in your community, and maybe even pick up a new skill.

America’s Eras – An America250 camp

In honor of the 250th birthday of our country, come take a journey with us as we step into America’s past and look to its future.  Explore life before this land became America and how westward expansion and industrialization changed our lives.

Learn through crafts, games, and visits to some of our historic structures.

We've all heard popular adages and sayings, but what is the history behind them? Do they even mean what we think they mean!? Interpreters will share famous adages and invite you to explore the mystery behind them with hands-on activities and lessons around the village. 

Do you have a wood burning stove at home that you’d like to cook on, but have no prior knowledge of how to do it?  Participants will learn the design of the woodstove and how to properly use it, all while making a sweet treat!

You’ll be able to chat with our knowledgeable costumed interpreters who keep the stories of our past alive. You’ll hear the clanging of the blacksmith’s hammer, smell the aroma of fresh-baked treats, and truly experience life in the 19th century. Interpreters — including cooks and craftspeople — will be demonstrating their talents.

Grab an ice cream and check out Traditional pre-1966 Hot Rods, Customs, stock Cars, trucks, Motorcycles, and vintage fire engine exhibit. Listen to Rockabilly and Surf music while touring the historic Pinecrest Village.

An intimate dinner throughout the Historic Village – spend a special evening with friends, celebrating the Museum’s work preserving the history, art, and nature of our region. With a farm-to-table meal, delicious drinks, live music, auctions, a wine pull, and more, we have a wonderful evening planned for you. All funds raised benefit MCHS’ educational mission and daily work bringing history to life for thousands each year.

Arrive at the McAllister House Welcome Center dressed in your 4-H or FFA uniform, organization jackets, or group t-shirt and receive free admission. Group leaders are also admitted free. You may arrive at any time during day.

Discover the Civil War! Participants learn how the soldiers and citizens of the North and South lived during the conflict. Watch cavalry, artillery, and medical demonstrations, engage in stories of the homefront here in Manitowoc County, and participate in hands-on activities. You may even learn how to march! Join us where the textbook page springs to life.

Cooks in our historic buildings will learn their three ingredients in the morning, then prep a dish or a meal for our team of judges. Surprise ingredients will be delivered to their sites; otherwise they may only use what they already have on hand.

Judges will visit sites in the afternoon to evaluate taste, presentation, and historical value.

Our Hometown History Expo aims to connect museum visitors with their local small museums, town historians, historical societies, and genealogy groups. Included in the cost of general museum admission, come out for a day of exciting local learning and participation in local history!

The experience includes 19th century issues to debate and then vote.

As you explore the 19th-century Historic Village, learn how Wisconsinites at the turn of the 20th century would have been preparing for the cold months ahead. See homes being prepared for snow and cold, clothing being mended, and kitchens being stocked for the winter months.

Experience a meal you’ll never forget! Join our historical cooks as they serve a historic meal in the Meeme House, located in our Historic Village. Guests will play parlor games, be served a family style meal (prepared by a local restaurant), and enjoy a choice of historically-inspired beverages.

Students will have the opportunity to make at least 2 candy canes in the blacksmith shop

Guided through the wintery Historic Village, interpreters will share 19th-century seasonal traditions and encourage students to make connections with their own experiences. This experience has six 20-minute stops, each in a historic building bedecked in holiday decorations. This tour creatively delivers a host of curriculum topics in a memorable way using song, dance, games, crafts, storytelling, and more!

Transport yourself back to the Victorian era with this year’s Dickens Dinner, an event which will feature traditional carolers and a reading of the classic story, “A Christmas Carol.” 

The Dickens Dinner will feature hors d’oeuvres, a traditional three-course meal with dessert, and unlimited historically inspired beverages.

Purchase your VIP ticket to follow along on a guided 60 minute holiday wassail experience tour. Victorian novelists Washington Irving and Charles Dickens elevated this idealized view of what Christmas could be with warm and welcoming homes for families and friends to gather around the wassail bowl, as they might carol from house to house. At each home folks would give and receive a simple greeting. The toast, “was hail,” means be in good health or be fortunate. The reply “drink hail” was given.

You’ll knock on the doors of our historic houses and enjoy food and beverages along the way.