Starting TUESDAY, APRIL 1st, all Ruthmere visitors are to start their tour experience at the Havilah Beardsley House at 102 W. Beardsley Ave. You will need to start at this location to pay for your tour (regardless of whether or not you are touring the Havilah Beardsley House) and view the orientation video. 

SELF-GUIDED TOURS: To protect our collections, Ruthmere Museum and the Havilah Beardsley House offer guided tours only. We do not allow self-guided tours at either location. However, self-guided tours of outdoor sites and attractions in Elkhart are available via Pocketsights. Experience history, art and architecture in the palm of your hand! Pocketsights offers a series of FREE self-guided mobile tours presented by Ruthmere featuring sites in Elkhart County, Indiana.

SEASONAL TOURS of unique elements of Ruthmere Museum Campus are offered regularly. See Ruthmere decorated for the Holiday season every year starting the Saturday after Thanksgiving through December 30. See calendar for details.

SPECIAL EXHIBITS are hosted at both Ruthmere and the Havilah Beardsley House. Come see something new at Ruthmere Museums Campus. See calendar for details.

ADA ACCESSIBILITY - Havilah Beardsley House is designed to be ADA wheelchair accessible for the first floor exhibits (approximately 75% of the exhibit space on site). Ruthmere Mansion requires the climbing of significant steps to enter from street level and is not ADA accessible. Additional accommodations are made for visitors with challenges. While both properties are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places and lie within the National Register Beardsley Avenue Historic District, and as such, are exempt from ADA accessibility laws, Ruthmere makes every reasonable effort to accommodate the needs of our visitors. Please contact us at (574) 264-0330 ahead of time if you have questions about accessibility or would like to make special arrangements - advance notice is greatly appreciated!