West Tennessee Agricultural Museum

The West Tennessee Agricultural Museum is on the north tract of the Milan Experiment Station. The 17,500-square-foot, two-story building has exhibits of agricultural life and features a display of more than 2,600 implements. The museum’s collection was established by Tom C. McCutchen, appointed superintendent of the newly established (1962) Milan Experiment Station in 1963. He collected many of the items—from hand tools, a buggy foot warmer, a sickle sharpener, and a spinning jenny to a horse-drawn road grader, circa 1920. He founded a nonprofit organization for the purpose of establishing an agricultural museum. Ground was broken for the museum on July 25, 1985, and the facility was completed in 1988. In 1996 the museum was rededicated as the Tom C. McCutchen Agricultural Museum.