Foundation - About Us

Hermann Farm & Museum is a 160-plus acre working farm, living history center, and National Landmark located along the Missouri River, about an hour west of St. Louis at the entrance to scenic Hermann, Missouri. Once the home of George Husmann, a world-renowned pioneer in the wine industry, Charles Manwaring, a local civil war hero, and for the past 100 years, the Kallmeyer Family, it now provides the public an opportunity to step into the past and explore its impressive history and natural beauty.

The Farm site and related properties now serve as an open air museum dedicated to preserving and presenting the unique agricultural, social, and economic history of the German immigrants who settled the lower Missouri River Valley in the mid-1800s.  They came with the dream of establishing a new Germany on the then western frontier of America.  While they fell short of that goal, their importance to the wine making industry and to the development of Missouri agriculture is undisputable.  

    

Hermann Farm & Museum consists of five distinct learning areas, all contributing to the historic representation of an early German settlement.  These areas include:

(1) model vineyard and winery,

(2) livestock farm,

(3) artisan demonstration sites, including a creamery and artisan cheese making facility,

(4) a German-style performance and event facility, known as the Hofgarten,

(5) stables, wagon building shop, and a children’s garden.

The multiple components of Hermann Farm & Museum combine to create a newly designated Historic Farm District where visitors can experience first hand what daily life was like in an early German settlement.  Each season provides opportunities to explore the ways rural Missourians of the period lived, worked, learned and interacted with the land.

Contact us for specific dates, hours, and openings.

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Hermann Farm is operated by a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable foundation dedicated to preserving and presenting the history and heritage of rural Missouri for the education and enjoyment of current and future generations. Copies of some of the beautiful paintings used in this website are available for purchase at Prints Old and Rare http://www.printsoldandrare.com. Other illustrations have been taken from the book Farmyard Tails, Illustrated by A.E. Kennedy, Sam’l Gabriel Sons & Company, New York.