The Heritage Center's main building museum, 6000 sq ft., houses home, school, congregational and medical objects. An African exhibit tells of the Congo previous to 1905 when Illinois Mennonite missionaries arrived there and changes leading to present indigenous leadership. Includes re-creation of an early twentieth century schoolroom and interior rooms of a home, and a pioneer room, as well as quilts and clothing unique to Amish and Mennonites, and others typical of the period and likely used by them, with emphasis on artifacts before 1930. The equally large farm museum features homemade and early hand tools, horse-driven machinery and a carriage, early engines to a 1951 fully restored John Deere tractor; and machinery from an early twentieth century wood-working shop powered by a gas engine and line shaft. The Sutter barn, furnished with necessities for care of farm animals and poultry and their produce, including harness and horseshoes, cream separator, egg grader, and lard press. In the Grandfather House of the early twentieth century, shows the stove for heat, a lantern for light, water pumped by hand and a chamber pot and there is an outhouse.