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Tour Hours
Tuesday-Sunday 1:00PM & 3:00PM All tours start in the Barn Store Hours Tuesday-Sunday 12:30-5PM 
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Coming Soon
Peanut Butter for the Pantry
Get $3.00 off your admission in April and May with a jar of peanut butter for the Rock River Valley Food Pantry. Bring your peanut butter to the Barn/Visitor Center with you when you purchase your tour tickets.
One jar per one admission discount. |
Tinker Special Events
Fun Unplugged:
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Fun Unplugged:
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Fun Unplugged:
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The Books Have Arrived!
Tinker Swiss Cottage is proud to announce the release of the
second volume of three in the Robert Tinker Journal collection.
This volume contains Robert's writings throughout his entire marriage
to his first wife, Mary Dorr Manny Tinker.
Life At Tinker Swiss Cottage: The Journals of Robert Hall Tinker, 1870-1901
is available now!
Purchase your copy at our Museum Store located in the Barn
or through our on-line store!
Tinker Rare Book Exhibit
Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum is proud to present the second exhibit of 2012: Tinker Rare Books. The exhibit features some of the greatest known works from Shakespeare to Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson to Thomas Moore.
This exhibit also features some very rare books including one of the first translated versions of the Bible into the Hawaiian Language and Olaus Magnus's Historia De Gentibus Septentrionalibus.
This exhibit also features some very rare books including one of the first translated versions of the Bible into the Hawaiian Language and Olaus Magnus's Historia De Gentibus Septentrionalibus.
Fun Unplugged: Family History Days
Tinker Swiss Cottage would like to welcome all family members from ages 5 to 105 to our Fun Unplugged: Family History Days summer series! We will be hosting six different Fun Unplugged sessions between June 2- August 11, 2012. Each session runs from 10am-3pm and is jam packed with family fun, local history and a take home project for each participant. The cost for each session is $10 per person, $7 per member and $30 per family. This is a pre-registered and pre-paid event.
Click here to view the Fun Unplugged brochure. Please print a copy of the registration and send it to Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum and Gardens located at 411 Kent Street, Rockford, IL 61102. For more information please call 815-964-2424 or email alix@tinkercottage.com.
Click here to view the Fun Unplugged brochure. Please print a copy of the registration and send it to Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum and Gardens located at 411 Kent Street, Rockford, IL 61102. For more information please call 815-964-2424 or email alix@tinkercottage.com.
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411 Kent Street Rockford, IL 61102 info@tinkercottage.com P 815-964-2424 Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum, Inc. is a registered 501 (c) (3) organization. Your gift to Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum, Inc. is deductible to the fullest extent allowable by law. |
