Museum News
May is Historic Preservation Month
Oxford offers guided walking tours every Saturday in May, featuring a different historic neighborhood each week. Schedule of walking tours »
Annual McGuffey Field Trip: Lanier Mansion and Jeremiah Sullivan House, Madison, IN
Wednesday June 6, 2018
8:15 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
R.S.V.P. to Sue Gambrell (513-529-1887), Bob Carmean (513-255-0062), or Steve Gordon (513-377-3818)
Join McGuffey Museum volunteers and friends for a summer field trip to southeast Indiana. We'll travel by van to tour two historic sites and enjoy lunch in the beautiful river town of Madison, Indiana.
Participants are responsible for their own admission fees and lunch. Learn more about the field trip »
Expanded Hours for Alumni Weekend
The McGuffey House and Museum will be open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Friday, June 8 and Saturday June 9 to welcome home our Miami alumni. Love and honor!
From our collections
Bishop Sideboard
Mahogany, 1790–1815
This sideboard belonged to the first president of Miami University, Robert Hamilton Bishop. Brought to Oxford by the Bishops in 1824, it stood in the entry hall of the Bishop home until the 1930s.
In 1991, Dr. Jonathan S. Bishop donated the sideboard to Miami University and the McGuffey Museum.
Peter Bruner's top hat and hatbox
Overcoming years of slavery, voluntary service in the Union Army, and decades of manual labor, celebrated Oxford citizen Peter Bruner's life is a story worth telling and re-telling. The Museum collection includes his top hat and hat box.
Octagonal table
It is thought that McGuffey wrote the first four books in the series in this house, very possibly on this table.
1840s pie safe
Poplar with pierced tin panels, 1840–1850
Cupboards of this type were used for food storage. The pierced tin panels allowed air circulation without letting rodents and large insects foul the foodstuffs.