Museum News
Sign up for the Annual McGuffey Field Trip!
Join us for the Annual McGuffey Docents & Friends Field Trip, June 4. We'll be visiting Lebanon, Ohio. We'll start with Glendower Historic Mansion, enjoy lunch at the Golden Lamb, and then finish with a visit to Harmon Museum and Art Gallery. Sign up by 5pm, Monday, May 27! More about the field trip »
What does it Mean to be a Child?
The McGuffey Readers
Exhibit opens May 3, 2019
1-5 p.m.
McGuffey House and Museum
Make it a Summer to Remember
McGuffey House and Museum is open all summer! We invite you to schedule a group tour or drop by during regular operating hours. Plan your visit now »
Thursday - Saturday
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Wëllkomm to our visitors!
McGuffey House and Museum recently hosted representatives from Differdange, Luxembourg, Oxford's Sister City, shown here with Museum Administrator Steve Gordon (second from right) and Doug Elliott, Oxford City Manager (second from left).
Fall 2018 in Review
We welcomed enthusiastic visitors, enjoyed good food and fellowship, and learned about fascinating local history from distinguished guest speakers. Fall 2018 Highlights
McGuffey Readers at the 2018 Graduate Research Forum
Former McGuffey student intern Kaylie Schunk presented her poster The McGuffey Readers' Afterlives: Designing Exhibition Spaces at the Miami University Graduate Research Forum on November 9. Kaylie is studying for her master's in American History. (Click images for larger versions)
Read Kaylie's recent manuscript: Peter Bruner: Novel in Death, Not in Life
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.