John Wayne Birthplace Museum

Decent small town museum

I’m not a particularly big John Wayne fan but my husband and I like to go to small town attractions and the people of Winterset are very passionate about John Wayne. There are some good displays her...

My dream visit

This was many years of dreaming to come to Winterset because I’ve always loved John Wayne. I travelled directly from Adelaide Australia via Melbourne Denver and Des Moines to get here as it was going ...

Winterset Iowa

Winterset was a fantastic small town to spend a few days in. They had some great accomdations, a really quaint town square. We toured the John Wayne museum and birthplace home. In addition we visit...

Great experience

This is an amazing representation of an American icon. The museum is awesome, and John Wayne’s birthplace is very well preserved and open to the public.

Can you imagine the car the Duke would drive? It's here and much more ;)

It was my 1st time seeing the monument i bought in memory of my late husband, jack gordon, ames, iowa, 3 years ago since covid hit. we were both lifelong fans of all john wayne movies. jack would w...