Museum of the High Plains; McCook, Nebraska
This museum was more a collection old junk donated/salvaged by locals rather than an actual museum, but there was some interesting stuff.
Spoiler:
If this Hammond typewriter was in working condition, it probably was worth hundreds of dollars, and I am sure the museum volunteers had no idea.
One of the first compact typewriters, the Corona 3.
I am quite sure this was NOT the first laptop computer. It is a Tandy 1400. I don't think it was even the first Tandy laptop.
I wish that I tested the switches on this one, but it is a museum, I looked but didn't touch. I'm guessing some kind of Alps or Alps clone, the keycaps were rather high profile to accomodate some switches underneath.
I turned around to this child manikin in an iron lung and it scared the shit out of me.
This collection of manikins in old dresses was a little eerie.
This salt mine actually was quite interesting, the company converted a dormant portion of the still-active salt mine into a museum and tourist attraction. The dormant portions of the mine also serve as a long-term storage facility that is well protected from the elements on the surface. An original IBM System/38 5381 console was down there in the storage exhibit, with what seemed like a beam spring keyboard (I didn't touch it to test). The movie industry also extensively uses this storage facility, as you will see in some of the photos.
Spoiler:
As mentioned, the dormant portions of the mine are used for underground storage to protects documents and other objects from the elements above ground.
The original guns from Men in Black. I loved that movie as a kid, so this was quite exciting.
From left to right, movie costumes from Batman & Robin (Mr. Freeze), Talladega Nights, Superman with Christopher Reeves, The Matrix.