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The Founding of the MOOseum and it's Organization In the late 1960’s the James & Macie King Farm was sold to the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission (MNCPPC) with the understanding that it would become the centerpiece of a proposed regional park in an area of the county that was anticipating commercial and residential development. Thirty-five years later, South Germantown Recreational Park became a reality, with the King Barn the only building on the site preserved by the County. Through the efforts of the Farm’s family and friends of agriculture throughout the County a core group of organizers of the museum was developed. The Montgomery County Planning Board gave it’s unanimous approval for the MOOseum project in April, 2002. Once the site was defined and the original building restored, the Barn was made available by MNCPPC through a right of entry agreement, the King Barn Dairy Mooseum, Inc. began planning for a fully operational museum. Federal 501-C(3) (non-profit) designation was received in June of 2003, and the MOOseum has been a Registered Charity in the State of Maryland since May 2004.

Mission: The purpose of the MOOseum is to develop the King Barn into a dairy museum as an education based heritage landmark that is compatible with, and enhancing to, the surrounding Park and Region.

06/02/2020

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04/26/2020

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04/19/2020

04/13/2020

King Barn Dairy MOOseum

04/12/2020

04/08/2020

04/07/2020

#stayhome
#weareallinthistogether

04/04/2020

IF you NEED to go out keep these guidelines in mind.
#stayhome

04/01/2020

03/26/2020

A little light humor in these uncertain times.
Thank you to our hard working farmers!

#thankafarmer
#stayhome

03/10/2020

03/05/2020

A great family event!

02/26/2020

02/19/2020

Many thanks to Montgomery Parks for making improvements on the King Barn. The MOOseum will be safer and quieter with the manure troughs filled in with cement. More improvements to come!

02/14/2020

Happy Valentine's Day!
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02/07/2020

Board members Don Barron and Bill Duvall at Montgomery College Volunteer Opportunities Event earlier this week.

REMEMBER you do not have to grow up on a farm to volunteer with the MOO and make a contribution to preserving the dairy history of Montgomery County.

If you are interested, please drop us an email at:

[email protected]

02/04/2020

The latest MOO to You after school program at Wayside Elementary.
#mooschool 🐄

01/25/2020

01/01/2020

11/09/2019

The Mooseum is Packing Up for Winter.😢❄☃️

Thanks to all visitors and volunteers for another successful year!🐄❤

10/29/2019

Thank You for Another Successful Fall Festival!
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10/23/2019

Don't Forget🙂

10/14/2019

10/09/2019

Save The Date!

10/09/2019

The Mooseum Participating in the Germantown Octoberfest Parade.
What a Fun Event!🐄🍁

09/23/2019

The MOOseum
Will Be Closed Saturday, September 28th
For a private event

09/23/2019

Poolesville Days!

09/19/2019

An Early Head Start group from Gaithersburg came to visit the Museum.
A good time was had by the toddlers, parents, staff and MOO docents!
#mooschool 🐄

09/07/2019

Another successful
Moo to You school visit.

This time students learned how to make butter!
#mooschool 🐄

08/29/2019

Our young audience enjoyed another fun filled day of Moo to You!
Today we enjoyed playing with stuffed cows, singing Old MacDonald Had a Farm and creating our own barn with farm animals to take home.
#mooschool

08/27/2019

Our September Featured Farm will be the
Heisler Family Farm

A special family gathering will take place, with the Heisler family explaining their exhibit and their special dairy farming heritage on September 22nd from 1:00 PM until 4:00 PM.
Come meet the Heisler family and learn the story of their dairy farming tradition.

Kenneth G. Heisler moved his family to the former Maughlin farm at rural Boyds (Montgomery County, MD) in 1942. For the next 30-plus years, the Kenneth and Alice Heisler family operated one of the county’s largest dairy farms, eventually reaching 372 acres.
The Heislers built a 60-stanchion modern milking barn, replaced their horses with an Allis-Chalmers WD45 tractor, assembled a dairy herd of Holstein, Jersey, and Guernsey cattle, and added hogs and chickens to supplement farm income, all the while raising four children on the active farmstead.

08/25/2019

The MOO docents went to three daycare centers this week to present the MOO to YOU program.
When the kids can't come to the barn, we try our best to bring the barn to them through technology.
#mooschool

Address

18028 Central Park Cir
Boyds, MD
20841

Telephone

(301) 528-6530

Website

www.mooseum.com

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