Kamas Valley History Mobile Museum

The Kamas Valley History Group is undertaking an ambitious and equally exciting project in 2021. Using money raised from their 2020 Labor Day Sale, the group purchased a 1978 Layton Trailer and plans to renovate the vintage trailer into a mobile museum. 

The transformation, which involves taking a gutted trailer and completely revamping both the interior and the exterior, will be completed around Memorial Day. For years to come it will serve as a historical homage to the Kamas Valley, joining a number of historic homes and institutions that the History Group has worked hard to preserve and promote. 

Soon, you’ll be able to couple a historic walking tour of Kamas with a visit to the mobile museum. Most importantly, the mobile museum will hit the road to demonstrate historical artifacts and tell the history of the Kamas Valley at schools, senior centers, and community gatherings. 

In an article featured by KPCW in December 2020, Kate Wynn (secretary of Kamas Valley History Group) says that she even plans to transform the yellow stripe on the exterior of the trailer to a mural featuring a pioneer wagon. While this is certainly a time intensive project, it goes to demonstrate the tremendous passion that the Kamas Valley History Group has for restoration, preservation, and telling history. 

We can hardly wait to take a drive down to Kamas and explore the mobile museum as soon as it’s complete and we can’t think of a project that better encapsulates the spirit of the Kamas Valley!