Canadian Potato Museum & Antique Farm Machinery Museum

Good museum with huge information. You can use the tour activity booklet to check your knowledge. Really fun for sure. They also have a nice gift shop and a canteen inside. My kids truly love this place.

We stopped for lunch in the museum dining room before doing a tour.We both had the Potato Soup and shared a Loaded Baked Potato. Food was delicious and service friendly and efficient.A great lunch for the potato enthusiast

A very Canadian sun museum! Worth visiting on a rainy day - if you are travelling from Charlottetown make sure you stop by in Summerside for Holaman’s ice cream!

Learned lots of things about potatoes. It also has a cool exhibit about Island history. Has a nice gift shop and a nice place to eat. The only place we ate on PEI that had fresh fried potato chips, instead of fries. Very friendly staff throughout. Nice rainy day activity!

A wonderful nugget hidden away in the village of O'Leary. There is a very well presented display about everything to do with potato cultivation, harvest, storage, distribution.... It was very enjoyable. The ladies there were very welcoming and kindThere is a restaurant that serves all things potato, Including a chocolate fudge that is made with mashed potatoes!Check out the gift shop. I bought some cool swag to take home to BC. They even packed up my purchase in a 5lb potato sack:-)There is a small community museum in the building too, just to the left of the welcome desk. Check it out.

Lots of information on potatoes, farming, PEI, and the area around OLeary! The antique farm equipment was fun to see as well. Very friendly and helpful staff, plus free potato fudge!

Place is amazing with a lot of history and a restaurant with lovely staff and mouthwatering dishes made out fresh potatoes. It has 2 parts - 1. a potato farming history hall where it has all the farming equipment and tools that were used in the past , there is interpretive centre telling the potato storyline with graphics, videos and artifacts. 2. There is a community museum which rooms artefacts and historically used medical and domestic devices/appliances. Not to the forget the picturesque giant potato outside.

Who would think that the lowly potatoe had so much to offer?! Very interesting. Lots of history on the use of the potatoe, early years, different tools and practices and visual display of a whole bunch of diseases. Super cool! And a really neat collection of antique equipmentDisplays are well done - informative and varied in type and presentation.We had young and old kids along and all enjoyed. It would be a 1 hour visit with young kids I'd say, but you could spend much longer with older kids. There's tons to read and look at.

Potato, one of the most common food items. Most of us eat it almost every day in one form or another. But who knew so much goes into growing potatoes and how much the farming industry has changed over the last couple of centuries.Also, I personally had no idea that potato farming has been and continues to be such a big business in PEI. 1/3 of Canada's potato production comes from PEI.The displays of historic farming equipment in this museum is amazing. You learn so much about potato by going through the various exhibits. There is also a nice little gift store that has potato-themed gifts.And let's not forget about the Potato Restaurant. The menu has about two dozen baked potato dishes with various toppings. The funny thing is you get potato chips as the side to your baked potato.We ordered Chili Potato, which was topped with chili and cheese. Also ordered Potato Skin, which was filled with cheese, bacon, sour cream & salsa.Both dishes were delicious. The service was friendly and attentive.

Really enjoyed the museum and restaurant. Didn't go on farm tours but they looked very interesting.