[2] It aims to educate the public on the subject of agricultural history, their legacy and impact on society.
They may also display memorabilia related to farmers or businesspeople who impacted society via agriculture (for example, size of the land cultivated as compared to other farmers) or agricultural advances (for example, technology implementation).
Still others, like Sugar Cane and Rum Museum present the agriculture of a particular farming species and focused on a particular food and end product.
Some open-air agricultural museums may present the history of how entire villages subsisted from their agriculture and may include many buildings spread over many acres; this is the case with the Kommern Open Air Museum.
Others, like the Agricultural Museum of Egypt, in Cairo, are a publicly owned national patrimony.