Great little museum with a great and enthusiastic museum keeper/manager. He was so kind and shared so much info. Its free now but accepts and encourages donations.

A really well laid out musuem! Enjoyed it a lot

Very nice museum. The LARGEST Lone Scout exhibit I have ever seen. Being in the hometown of the founder of BSA and Lone Scouts, that is no surprise. William Boyce display is also very well done. Dan was our docent and very helpful.

A wonderful place for old or young boy and girl scouts!!

Great history and memorabilia. I never knew about the Lone Scout program. There was also a lot about Batten Powell and the Wood Badge program. It also covers the Girl Scouting program.

We recieved our own personal tour of the museum. Very knowledgeable!

We went to a birthday party there for our friend and it was fun for all ages

Wonderful display with lots of locals of National interest.

Great little museum..neat orderly. we rented the back room for my nieces 17th birthday party and her handicap friends could come because place is handicap accessible..amazing time they had!!

Called the day before to make sure they were open the next day. They said yes. Drove 1 1/2 hours to get there and they had a hand written note on the door saying they were closed. Car in lot, call number to site. They were there but still said they were closed. So beware even though they say they are open you are taking your chances if they are open or not. They close whenever they feel like it even when they know a groups coming in.

This museum has a ton of historical information about scouting and the Ottawa IL area. The docent gives a great tour and adds so much value with facts and stories.

So fun to see scout history.

There were so many carefully laid out and tasteful displays. Beautiful. Also, the room across from the Scout room was of Ottawas history. I could easily spend hours in this hidden gem. A must visit!

Very friendly and knowledgeable folks here. .

Nice variety of material including multiple groups. All the Baden-Powell memorabilia even before Scouting added context to his life and the movement.

I’m not into Scouting but I love history and this place is full of it. Try to skip past the guide and read the captions on your own for a real walk through the past.

IF YOUVE BEEN IN SCOUTS YOU NEED TO CHECK THIS OUT

Knowledgable staff,interesting artifacts

A Gem of museum! Lots of terrific scouting and local information.

Lot of history and great meeting room.

Interesting. So happy they included all the scouts.

Great local museum. The museum is broken into two area one section is of ottawa illinois history and the other half is boy scout history. Staff is very friendly and helpful and able to answer your questions.

Very nice being a scout it shows me a lot of heritage alsoNearby is w d Boyce grave the museum also has anotherExhibit room detected to Ottawa and has old pianos in is and stuff like hats old metals etc as for the scouting museum it is actually pretty big inside and has knife collections, handkerchief slides whiitled out of wood old uniforms,merit badges form all different times old camping gear it was very very nice defenently recommend going it is a experience to remember we stayed at camp Tuckabatchee which was very beautiful and nice as there were hill all over camp and had a indoor galley with a shower picnic benches stove fridge but we had to sleep outside that was the only downfall

Lots of interesting scouting memorabilia and history.

Great tribute to Scouting, William Boyce, and the city of Ottawa.

The museum now has Ottawa history in one wiing and Scouting history in the other wing

A definite stop for scouts and scouting families!!