Visit
Exhibit map
A top-down plan of the museum. Click any room. The dotted line is the suggested walking route.
Walk the building from above. Ink lines on parchment—five wings around a lobby—matching the route you follow with Previous / Next at the bottom of each room.
Exhibit room (click or keyboard-focus to enter)
Suggested walking route
Thick wall gaps mark doorways between halls
Room directory
On a small screen, or if you prefer a list, every room is linked here.
- Wing: The Road
- Origins
- Hobo, tramp, and bum
- Life on the rails
- Work circuits
- Wing: People of the Rails
- Notable figures
- Women on the rails
- Black travelers & Jim Crow
- The boxcar kids
- Wing: Culture and Code
- Signs and symbols
- Moniker wall
- Language and slang
- Ethical code
- Art and trade
- Music and literature
- On screen
- Wing: Movements and Hard Times
- The Great Depression
- The IWW and the rails
- Hobo College
- Wing: Britt and Today
- Tourist Union No. 63
- Britt today
- Then and now
- Timeline
- Gallery
- Reading room
- Trivia
- Sources
- About