ALBERTA VILLAGE MUSEUM

The Museum is open for public tours Tuesday - Saturday
Hours: 9:30 a.m. -3:30 p.m.
From June 15 through the fall color season (mid-October)

For meetings, conferences, school group tours of the sawmill and village before, during and after the regular season, please call or email 906.353.7230 or email: alberta@up.net

Group tours are also available for visitors attending the conference center on the Alberta Campus. Arrangements can be made through Michigan Tech. Please call or email 906.353.7230 or email: alberta@up.net

Tours of the forest are made by special arrangement where the history of the land is reviewed and the results of forest management.

Things to See and Do!

Take a tour of the sawmill and learn about its fully operational machinery and how lumber is manufactured.

View our displays of old-time logging tools and other special displays.

See a reconstructed 1925 Model T “Woodie.”

Learn the story of Henry Ford’s north country enterprises.

Hear the stories of this special village and the people who lived and worked here.

Take a walking tour of a company town that doesn’t look like a company town.

Get the story of the building of this most unusual company town that was actually built”out in the middle of nowhere.”

See how ford built a “modern home” in 1935 & 1936.

Learn how Alberta became a center for forestry research, education and demonstration under Michigan Technological University.