[1] The Wilkin County Historical Society organized on March 29, 1965, in order to create a museum.

In the beginning with no central place to store items, the museums artifacts were spread to different places around town until the First Federal Savings and Loan in Breckenridge offered their basement to centralize storage of the collection until a building for a museum could be found.

In their first year of operation, the Society moved a schoolhouse in Brushvale, Minnesota, to Welles Memorial Park in Breckenridge for use as another museum.

[2][4] The museum is primarily funded through the county's tax levy, along with memberships and donations.

On the lower level is a bedroom, bathroom, pioneer kitchen and laundry room, in addition to many pieces of small farm equipment and farm machines, plus countless other smaller exhibit items.