Chippewa Valley Museum — PO Box 1204 — Eau Claire WI 54702 — (715) 834-7871 — info@cvmuseum.com


the exciting and intertwining stories of Wisconsin’s Chippewa Valley is to visit the nationally recognized Chippewa Valley Museum, located in Eau Claire.

We offer award-winning exhibits, beautifully preserved historic structures on the grounds, fun activities, a working vintage ice cream parlor, and more.

We exist to discover, collect, preserve and interpret the story of the Chippewa Valley and its people, and tell larger stories of America through our own.


in beautiful Carson Park, a 134-acre peninsula nestled inside horseshoe-shaped Half Moon Lake.

Carson Park also features the Paul Bunyan Camp, which faithfully recreates a 19th-century northwoods logging camp; a working quarter-scale railroad; picnic pavillions; access for fishing and canoeing; and the baseball stadium where homerun king Hank Aaron played his first professional games, and where the Eau Claire Cavaliers still play ball on balmy summer evenings.

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