Museum

[LarryP]

Are there any good gun museums or collections open to the public to view in or near Mpls?

Went to Northfield, Saw the James Gang display, pretty neat.

[DeanC]

I think there is a museum in Wabasha that purports to have one of every Winchester rifle ever produced up through 1970 or so.

[DeanC]

Arrowhead Bluffs Museum
Route 3, Box 7
Wabasha, MN 55981
651-565-3829

This museum features a complete Winchester gun collection, with one of every model from 1866 to 1982 on display, including commemorative models; also featured are American Indian artifacts, mounted wildlife, a John Deere collection, tools, and a variety of antiques.

[DeanC]

Awww forget it

Gun Collecting: Sad Turn for Wabasha Museum
Posted by FirearmsTruth on October 1, 2011

This past week we heard a sad story about the Arrowheads Bluffs Museum from the Winona Daily News in a story titled, “Wabasha museum owner: It’s time to be done.” The paper offered this somber passage:

“Buses don’t stop at the Arrowhead Bluffs Museum anymore; they all go straight to the casinos. Riverboats don’t bring loads of people willing to drive up to the farm, sitting atop a bluff west of Wabasha.”

Perhaps this passage explains the situation even better:

“And the last time Les Behrns had a school group visit his homemade museum, it just wasn’t the same. ‘Kids have no interest in history,’ he said Wednesday. ‘They pull out their phones and start texting right away.’”

The sad fact is that this sounded like an amazing museum:
“In 2008, he auctioned much of his coveted Winchester collection, some 260 guns and more than 800 shell boxes. Pieces of his former collection now reside all over the world — more than a third of the items were shipped overseas — and more will soon join them. Les said his remaining collection has drawn interest from as far as Saudi Arabia.”

It is simply the sad state of our interest in history.

[TC95GT]

Sad news for sure. I had a chance to see that collection and it was unbelievable.

[xracer390]

I had never heard of this before last weekend....sounds awsome but someone said the new owner (son) wants to sell it off.
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