The museum was initially conceived by Stan Reynolds, who had amassed a large collection of agricultural machinery, airplanes, and automobiles during the mid-20th century.[12] The property is adjacent to Wetaskiwin Regional Airport, and is situated near the eastern portion of Alberta Highway 13 before it branches north.[14] Historically themed interactive exhibits include a 1911 automobile assembly line, a 1920s grain elevator, a 1930s service station, and a 1950s drive-in theatre.[14] Other facilities in the main museum building include a theatre, offices, a café, event venues, and a gift shop.[15] The 10,219-square-metre-collections (110,000 sq ft) storage facility houses artifacts from the museum's collection which are not on exhibit in its main building nor at its aviation display hangar.[20] In addition to machinery, the museum's collection also includes a number of documents relating to mechanization in industry and transportation.[20] Automobiles in the museum's collection include a Hupp-Yeats, a 1929 Duesenberg Phaeton Royale Model J, a 1933 Ford Fordor, and one of the two surviving 1934 Citroën P17 half-track used during the Bedaux expedition.
Aerial view of the museum property.
The conservation workshop inside the main museum building.
A
Bucyrus-Erie
200-B power shovel, and a Bucyrus Class 24 from the museum's collection
A
Fleet Fawn 7C
from the museum's collection suspended in the air at the aviation display hangar