Pioneer Museum of Alabama

The Pioneer Museum of Alabama (PMOA) opened on November 6, 1971, at 248 U.S. Highway 231 North in Troy.  The PMOA continues the mission of preserving and presenting its unique collection of historical buildings, structures, and exhibits to advance a greater knowledge and appreciation of the period in history that includes the 1800's through the early 1900's.  The PMOA focuses on indigenous people and early settlers to the Southeastern United States of America and the depictions of their ways of survival and everyday life.  Visitors see ingenious adaptations of tools, implements, machines, and processes settlers used to persist and ultimately thrive without the modern conveniences of electricity, running water, electronic communication, modern travel, motorized machines, and little international trade.

The main museum building showcases over 20,000 artifacts including exhibits of agriculture, transportation, blacksmithing, logging, wood working, military, Native American, textiles, quilts, music, Sacred Harp, toys, a pioneer kitchen, and more. The main building also houses works of art by locals including Larry Godwin, Jean Lake, Mose T, Alice Thornton, and more. The middle hall features store and business fronts that were downtown Troy in the early 1900's and includes rooms dedicated to Alabama Governor Charles Henderson and the Alabama Baptist Children's Home.   The museum grounds are home to an 1881 logging locomotive, a fully stocked 1920's general store, a rolling store, a fully furnished dog trot cabin and tenant house, a one-room schoolhouse, a log church, and other structures

Self-guided tours of the museum and grounds are the standard option while docent led tours are available for groups of 20 or more with advanced registration.

Admission is charged.