Pioneer Museum
An open-air museum preserving German settlers' stone houses, Sunday houses and smokehouse from the 1840s. It tells the story of pioneer settlement.
The Pioneer Museum is run by the Gillespie County Historical Society. On a roughly 3-acre site at the west end of Main Street, it preserves the 1849 Kammlah family home and store, a barn, a smokehouse, a schoolhouse, a fire station and the local “Sunday houses,” small cabins where farmers stayed when they came into town on weekends for church. Together they show the daily life of German immigrants. Admission is about $10, and a self-guided visit takes about an hour. The museum occasionally hosts demonstrations of traditional crafts. It is about a 5-minute walk from the Marktplatz.
Opening hours
Tue–Sat approx. 10:00–17:00
Nearby sights
- St. Mary's Catholic Church
- Marktplatz & Vereins Kirche
- Main Street Historic District
- National Museum of the Pacific War
- Cross Mountain
- Fort Martin Scott
- Wildseed Farms
- Jenschke Orchards