Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm opens for their 46th season

The Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm is open for drop-in hours to start the 2025 season starting Friday, March 7.  The Museum is open Fridays and Saturdays, from 12-3 pm with guided tours of the Van Hoosen Farmhouse and Red House starting at 1 pm. Included with your admission is a self-paced, interactive look at our community’s local history, exhibits about the Taylor-Van Hoosen families, Mastodon bones, and a wide variety of local videos from our ski jump to our award-winning PBS movie and numerous computer interactives.

The Museum displays the survey chain from Wm. A. Burt who discovered iron ore in the Upper Peninsula and surveyed the Village of Stoney Creek, and woven coverlets made locally in 1844 by A.W. Van Doren. The Museum hosts the Community Hall of Fame that features the remarkable men and women from the community.

The Museum grounds feature gardens and meadows and is bordered by Stoney Creek Stream. Ornamental ponds on the grounds were once used to raise salmon to be released into Stoney Creek, and the grounds preserve a mill race, a historic landscape, as well as a Children’s Garden during the summer.

The guided tour of the Van Hoosen Farmhouse departs from the Dairy Barn at 1:00pm, and you may take a self-guided tour of the Bull Barn, Milk House, Equipment Barn, and Children’s Garden, as well as the nearby Stoney Creek Cemetery and our 16 acres or grounds. Come and share your afternoon with us at our site – listed on the National Register of Historic Places!

The Museum is located at 1005 Van Hoosen Road, in Rochester Hills. For more information visit rochesterhills.org/museum or call 248.656.4663.