This friendly museum is run by Colony descendents, and their enthusiasm for Palmer’s history is evident. Take the time for a guided tour, and you’ll leave with an appreciation of the enormity of the colonizing project. The museum itself was a ‘Colony Farm House’ built during the original settlement of Palmer, and its eight rooms are still furnished with artifacts and stories from that era. To bring the living-room piano to Alaska, members of one pioneer family left behind their luggage and stuffed their clothes in it, the only way to make their weight allotment.
