Minnesota Folk Artist Arnold Kramer (1882-1976)
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Walnut Grove, Minnesota will be hosting a collection of Kramer paintings during the 2008 tourism season. The gift shop will carry Kramer gift items. The collection is on loan from the County Center Historical Museum in Wabasso, Minnesota where Kramer lived after his retirement from farming.
Kramer's family moved to Redwood County from Iowa when he was nine years old. This is the same county Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in 20 years earlier and wrote about in her book On the Banks of Plum Creek. Kramer was nicknamed Minnesota's Grandpa Moses by the University of Minnesota.
Display of memorabilia from the TV show "Little House on the Prairie" set in Walnut Grove, Minnesota
Spinning Wheel
Click here for museum hours.
A replica of Laura's button-eyed doll can be purchased in the museum gift shop.
Visitors can visit local sites and attractions like the McCone Sod Houses near Sanborn, Minnesota, and the dugout site where the Ingalls' sod house stood on the banks of Plum Creek.
