The Mansfield Memorial Museum is the oldest museum in Richland County. The founder, Edward Wilkinson (an avid collector of specimens and artifacts for the Smithsonian Institute, Carnegie Natural History Museum, and Peabody Field Museum), established a varied and extensive collection from which the museum has continued to grow. The museum features multiple collections, including major wars, natural history, a repository for many public documents from Richland County and the City of Mansfield, and the industrial history of Mansfield, including Westinghouse’s home of the future and the oldest American robot, ELEKTRO, as featured in the Worlds Fair 1937-38 in New York.

We invite you to visit and share in the rich history of North Central Ohio.