FREE Admission for Kids at Genesee Country Village from June 29-30, 2019 from 10am to 4pm. Adults are $18, Seniors 62+ are $15. Kids- 17 and under are free.
- Games—including some little-known today— to gatherings and activities a 19th-century youngster would have experienced.
- Kids can dress up in period clothes
- Young visitors can also test a two-man saw and other long-ago chores like stoking fires, carrying wood and grating kitchen spices.
- Lambs, chickens and the powerful oxen team
- A 19th-century classroom and chat with a cooper as he crafts wooden buckets.
- Kids can learn to knit, punch a tin design, see how they would be been instructed to behave in the 1800s, be amazed at Professor Lowe’s “magic gas” and treated to the sounds of a glass harmonica.
- Nature trails to hike and a gallery with western art and historic clothing to explore and where, in a new photo booth, they can become part of a popular work of art.
- On the weekend there will be historic base ball played by 1868 rules at Silver Base Ball Park, the only recreated 19th-century base ball park in the country.
- Bring a picnic lunch or enjoy a tasty lunch from the museum’s two on-site restaurants: The Depot and The Pavilion Garden.