{"id":14676,"date":"2013-12-12T01:37:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T09:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14676"},"modified":"2013-12-12T01:37:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T09:37:18","slug":"western-trails-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/western-trails-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Trails Museum Rings in Ghost Town Holidays with Relics from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/knomuse.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sleigh Bells Ring&#8230; are you listening? Inside the Western Trails Museum at Knott&#8217;s Berry Farm&#8217;s Ghost Town you can gaze at 223-year-old sleigh bells while hearing faint sounds such as the jingle-jangle of bells worn by horses pulling \u00a0the Butterfield Stage Coach outside. Not only does Knott&#8217;s Berry Farm&#8217;s Calico Ghost Town honor Western culture with its buildings (such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/architecture\/bottle-house.html\">Bottle House<\/a>,) vintage vehicles, entertainment, and even a blacksmith, it showcases authentic artifacts in the wonderful Western Trails Museum. The museum is free <a href=\"http:\/\/reservations.stockteam.com\/856_attraction-info_a11.html\">with admission<\/a> and free to see Monday-Thursday during Knott&#8217;s Merry Farm, an annual event held Thanksgiving through December 24.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some unique items in the museum:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the biggest collection of buttons in the world<\/li>\n<li>1878 Model of Edison&#8217;s First Lamp<\/li>\n<li>Telescope used in 3 wars &#8212; Mexican War of 1845, Civil War and Indian Wars<\/li>\n<li>Rifles and guns dating to pre-Civil War<\/li>\n<li>Women&#8217;s beaded bags made in Wales in 1825 and brought to California during the Gold Rush<\/li>\n<li>Barbed wire collection<\/li>\n<li>Branding iron collection<\/li>\n<li>Mills Violano Vituoso that once played a violin when you inserted coins into a machine<\/li>\n<li>Photos, menus, memorabilia from Knott&#8217;s early days<\/li>\n<li>Clothing, medicine bottles, medical equipment<\/li>\n<li>Silverware used by miners during the Gold rush<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleigh Bells Ring&#8230; are you listening? Inside the Western Trails Museum at Knott&#8217;s Berry Farm&#8217;s Ghost Town you can gaze at 223-year-old sleigh bells while hearing faint sounds such as the jingle-jangle of bells worn by horses pulling \u00a0the Butterfield Stage Coach outside. Not only does Knott&#8217;s Berry Farm&#8217;s Calico Ghost Town honor Western culture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14676"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}