John Deere Pavilion, Corporate visitor center and museum in Moline, Illinois.
The John Deere Pavilion displays agricultural machinery in a glass-fronted exhibition space, ranging from vintage tractors to modern farming equipment. The open layout lets visitors view the machines from different angles.
The facility opened in 1997 on the site of the original John Deere Plow Works, which was established here in 1848. This location directly connects the exhibition to the long tradition of machine manufacturing at this place.
The exhibition space shows the connection between farmers across different generations through interactive displays that show how agricultural work has changed over time. Visitors can directly understand how new technologies changed the daily work in the fields.
Admission is free and the pavilion is mainly open on weekends with limited weekday hours. Plan to spend several hours exploring the different machines and climbing into some of them.
Visitors can climb into both historical and modern farm machines, including a see-through 1960 tractor that reveals the internal workings. This hands-on experience of seeing machines from the inside is rarely found in other collections.
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