The Pasto Agricultural Museum connects the science and history of our agricultural past with the present day for almost 10,000 visitors annually. Exhibits, programs, demonstrations and tours provide an understanding of our local and regional history, where our food comes from, and the inventions and technology that have made food production on a large scale possible.

Programs at the museum immerse visitors, students, research faculty, and professionals, in thinking about our food and fiber systems and natural resources.

The museum collection focuses on what life was like and how work was done before gasoline engines and rural electrification, through the 1930s.

The Pasto Agricultural Museum is located at the Penn State University – College of Agricultural Sciences – Russell E. Larson Agricultural Center for Research and Education. Comprised of over 2200 acres, Penn State operates four distinct farms at the center – the Agronomy, Entomology, Horticulture, and Plant Pathology research farms – as well as the Ag Progress Days site. In addition, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Farm and the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Livestock Evaluation Center are located here.

The Pasto Agricultural Museum and Armsby Respiration Calorimeter are currently closed and not open to the public. We hope to resume more normal operations soon. In the meantime we continue to develop digital media to engage our stakeholders. To subscribe to Museum news and updates, please email L-Ag-Pasto-subscribe-request@lists.psu.edu. And be sure to visit our website.