History
The Emu-Z-Um collection started out as the piles of items Jack Lawson would buy at the end of farm sales as a kid. The collection grew larger and more eclectic for more than 50 years. Jack and Belva decided to take out what they kept in the sheds on their ranch property just to see what we had. What they had was the beginnings of Lawson's Emu-Z-Um. So named for the emus they once raised on their ranch, Lawson's Emu-Z-Um has grown over the years. They opened it up to the public because people wanted to see it, They were just doing it for fun then, but then it grew into a business.
Specialties
The Emu-Z-Um is a family friendly historical museum about the early settlement of Owyhee county and southern Idaho. You will come away with a much better understanding of what life was like in late 19th and early 20th century Idaho.