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Carnegie Museum Official Page for The Carnegie Historical Museum in Fairfield Iowa. We are the 1st Carnegie Library built west of the Mississippi river. to 8:30 p.m.

The Museum has always been the 3rd floor of the building but now includes exhibits in the basement. Our unique collection features one of the Midwest’s foremost collections of Native American pottery, Civil War artifacts, Roman Antiquities, and an exhibit dedicated to Fairfield and Jefferson County memorabilia. We are open Tuesday through Friday from 11 - 4:00 p.m. And We are also open every 1st Friday for Artwalk from 6 p.m. Stop in and enjoy our rich history.

We have so many artifacts coming in on a daily basis. We are going to shut down next week to try to get a good control o...
10/07/2026

We have so many artifacts coming in on a daily basis. We are going to shut down next week to try to get a good control over what we have. And during the winter months, we will have a few weeks here and there we will shut down also, but we will keep all of you posted when they will be, just trying to keep up on documentation. Thank you

10/06/2026

We want to thank Nancy Swaim for donating this picture of J.C. Penny to the museum. Mrs. Swain worked for years at JCPenney and this picture always hung in the store here in Fairfield. Many of us remember it well.

We received some old Fairfield yearbooks. This was from the class of 1954. It’s very funny how youth express themselves,...
10/05/2026

We received some old Fairfield yearbooks. This was from the class of 1954. It’s very funny how youth express themselves, even in the 50s. 😂

We just got these pictures and we think it’s 1972. It’s at the old underpass on Burlington Avenue. Is this little gas st...
10/02/2026

We just got these pictures and we think it’s 1972. It’s at the old underpass on Burlington Avenue. Is this little gas station the old DX station that was on the corner of ninth and Burlington? Do you have any pictures like this in your collection, we’re looking for all this stuff for the history of Jefferson County.

804 W. Taylor Ave. Fairfield, we were just given this photo of this home when first built. Do you have copies of your ho...
09/30/2026

804 W. Taylor Ave. Fairfield, we were just given this photo of this home when first built. Do you have copies of your home in Jefferson County you could donate to us for our history? We are documenting all farms, and homes in ALL the county.

We wanna think, Margaret Berg, for bringing these pictures in for our permanent collection. She took these pictures when...
09/29/2026

We wanna think, Margaret Berg, for bringing these pictures in for our permanent collection. She took these pictures when Logan school was coming down in 1972. Do you have pictures like this of our community or for the county? We’d love to have them for our permanent collection.

Richard Heckenberg, class of 1966, was back for his reunion this weekend. The screen door from his parents old grocery s...
09/29/2026

Richard Heckenberg, class of 1966, was back for his reunion this weekend. The screen door from his parents old grocery store in Lockridge is in the museum. The Heckenberg cash and carry. The past two weekends here at the Carnegie Museum. We’ve had a total of nine class reunions represented. Coming years think of your class reunion attending here. It’s a blast from the past.

Do you have pictures of your farms of your houses of the past in the county or in your town within Jefferson County? We ...
09/24/2026

Do you have pictures of your farms of your houses of the past in the county or in your town within Jefferson County? We are looking for all photographs that we can get to put in our permanent collection. We want to think the Hunt family, this is 501 South Main St in Fairfield. This house in the background was built in 1841 and lived in by Ward Lamson family until the 1958. The house was tore down for the new house existing there. The second picture is of the covered porch on the backside of the house facing Madison Street.

We would like to think Cindy Dunn for giving us this photograph. It was taken in front of Heston and Anderson building o...
09/18/2026

We would like to think Cindy Dunn for giving us this photograph. It was taken in front of Heston and Anderson building on Kirkwood Street. Not sure of the year. If you have any photographs like this for anything in Jefferson County, we would love to have a copy of it or the original for our permanent collection.

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112 S. Court St
Fairfield, IA
52556

Opening Hours

Tuesday 11am - 4pm
Wednesday 11am - 4pm
Thursday 11am - 4pm
Friday 11am - 4pm

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+16414726343

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