Schwanke Car, Tractor and Truck Museum

  This 1946 Stake Kar was the last vehicle purchased for the museum by founder, Virgil Schwanke, before his passing. Restoration was comple...

  Mr. and Mrs. John Heider from central Illinois stopped by recently and asked if we happened to have a Heider tractor in our museum. They p...

  The Minneapolis-Moline Company was formed by the 1929 merger of the Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Company, the Minneapolis Threshing M...

  We start our 2021 season with the addition of a Case DO orchard tractor. Orchard tractors are more commonly found in the orchards and vine...

The Minneapolis 35-70 was built by the Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company in Hopkins, Minnesota from 1920-1929.  It is powered by a 1...

It has been 20 years since Virgil Schwanke opened the museum to the public to share his collection of tractors, trucks, and cars. We ar...

Welcome Friends. Today I am just going to introduce the Museum to you with just a little history. The Schwanke Museum first opened it'...