Road Closure Around Museum
BEGINNING MAY 22 YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE MUSEUM FROM EXIT 106 FOR APPROXIMATELY 9 MONTHS. PLEASE USE THE DIRECTIONS BELOW IF YOU ARE TRAVELING FROM THE NORTH. I-77 South to Exit
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Museum Closed on Memorial Day
The McKinley Presidential Library & Museum will be closed on Monday May 29 in observance of Memorial Day. We will reopen on Tuesday May 30 at 9:00 AM.
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This hands-on interactive science center, Presidential museum and historical library takes visitors on a scientific journey through the past, present and future.
Welcome to the McKinley Presidential Library & Museum. Visitors to our museum are in for a wonderful experience that includes an interactive, hand-on science center, a presidential museum dedicated to our 25th president, a historical library, planetarium and more. We also invite you to experience the solemn memorial to our martyred president, the McKinley National Memorial.We are dedicated to collecting and preserving the significant materials and records related to the life of William McKinley, his family and his career. We’re also the official historians of Stark County and are always on the lookout for facts and artifacts that tell the Stark County story. We serve as an education center of history and science and offer interpretive exhibitions and educational programs for the local community and an expanding global audience.
Upcoming Events
Permanent and Current Exhibits:
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Pre-historic Fun
This hands-on interactive science center takes visitors on a scientific journey through the past, present and future. Travel back to the time of the dinosaur at the Natural History Island. Visit our animal friends at the Ecology Island, and capture your shadow in Fascination Station!
Hoover-Price Planetarium
Travel to outer space without ever leaving the ground! That’s how you will feel after you experience the museum’s 65 seat Hoover-Price Planetarium. Over 60 projectors show the aurora, meteor shower, an asteroid, panorama of downtown Canton, clouds, snow, phases of the moon and dozens of constellations during a 30 minute presentation.
The Stark County Story
This exhibit chronicles 200 years of our history through artifacts, photographs and interpretive audio programs. Visitors will be able to see The Laffing Lady from Meyers Lake, dresses from the 1890s and 1930s, a Civil War overcoat, a video of a canal lock in operation, a 1950s kitchen, a giant Timken bearing ride, Danner bookcase patent models, and MUCH MORE!!!
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Street of Shops
Step back in time as you walk through our Street of Shops, a life-size replica of a historic town. Visit the Dannemiller Store, Gibbs Manufacturing Company, the Eagle Hotel and our fire station– complete with a horse-drawn fire engine. Kids can even slide down a real fire pole! Be sure to stop at our model train layout, housed inside a replica of downtown Canton’s train station. Here you will see the historical and working relationship of the Pennsylvania Railroad and our community.
McKinley Gallery
Using objects and images from the Museum’s vast collection, this gallery contains the largest collection of McKinley artifacts in the world and chronicles the life and career of our 25th President from his birth to his tragic death at the hands of an assassin. The exhibit also explores the construction of the McKinley National Memorial and the unfortunate fate of the McKinley’s Canton home.
Gift Shoppe
The Museum Shoppe stocks an assortment of items to reflect the diversity of the museum itself. You will find science books, toys, pretty Victorian-style pins and accessories, Carnegie dinosaurs, t-shirts, games, and books. The Museum Shoppe will be happy to provide you with gift certificates or shopping by mail. You can visit the Museum Shoppe for free.
Permanent and Current Exhibits:
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Pre-historic Fun
This hands-on interactive science center takes visitors on a scientific journey through the past, present and future. Travel back to the time of the dinosaur at the Natural History Island. Visit our animal friends at the Ecology Island, and capture your shadow in Fascination Station!
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Street of Shops
Step back in time as you walk through our Street of Shops, a life-size replica of a historic town. Visit the Dannemiller Store, Gibbs Manufacturing Company, the Eagle Hotel and our fire station– complete with a horse-drawn fire engine. Kids can even slide down a real fire pole! Be sure to stop at our model train layout, housed inside a replica of downtown Canton’s train station. Here you will see the historical and working relationship of the Pennsylvania Railroad and our community.
Featured Products
Little Chicago Blue Canton Shirt
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$12.00–$15.00 Select optionsThe McKinley Years: The Life and Times of our 25th President
$24.95 Add to cartWilliam McKinley and Our America: A Pictorial History by Richard L. McElroy
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Make A Donation
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Become A Member
Enjoy all the museum has to offer including: Free admission, Reciprocal admission privileges to more than 250 science centers & museums across the country, Free admission to planetarium programs… + Learn More
Featured Artifacts
Curator's Corner
Learn more about what’s going on behind-the-scenes at the McKinley Presidential Library & Museum from Curator Kim Kenney!
Archivist's Attic
I express my daily tasks as an archivist, the highlights, and the happenings of the McKinley Presidential Library & Museum.
The Universe at Large
Learn more about what is happening in the night sky through the Hoover-Price Planetarium’s blog.