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First discussions of the need of a museum of agriculture in Finland took place already in the 1940s.
In 1973 the active Loimaa-Seura Society took an initiative of setting up a permanent exhibition of agricultural machinery in the region to the Regional Council of Southwest Finland.
As early as in 1985 the Ministry of Education took the national museum of agriculture on its´ target programme
A foundation for the exhibition of the Finnish agricultural machinery was established on the 10th of January 1992. The founders were Loimaa-Seura Society, Loimaa municipality together with several private persons.
In 1996 a working group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry proposed that a national museum of agriculture will be constructed and it will be owned by the state and administered by the foundation.
In 1998 the working group made a Budget proposal for the planning-, construction- and renting-
expenses of the museum
The 19th of May 2003 Senate Properties made an investment decision for the construction of the museum of agriculture.
The 15th of February a new museum building was completed in the Puujalkala district of the town Loimaa.
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