About the Museum
October 6th, 2010
Contrary to what some might think the name implies, Miami County Museum is NOT in the state of Florida. It is in Indiana.Peru, to be specific.No. Not Peru, South America.Peru, Indiana.Okay, now that we have that cleared up we can get down to some interesting information about the Miami County Museum located in Peru, Indiana.The museum is closely aligned with the Miami County Historical Society dating back to 1916 when the Governor asked each county in Indiana to form a historical society.Since then the society has provided resources for the museum to become one of the larger small-classified museums in the country where it houses over 150,000 historical objects and archived items on two exhibition floors with a third floor reserved for storage of collections.The Museum and Historical Society are currently (more…)



