The Patuxent Rural Life Museums, located within the Jug Bay Natural Area near the visitor center, are a collection of museums and farm buildings dedicated to preserving the heritage of southern Prince George’s County.
The museum complex is composed of the W. Henry Duvall Tool Museum, a Blacksmith Shop with Farrier & Tack Shop, the Tobacco Farming Museum, Duckett Log Cabin with its privy, chicken coop, and meat house, a 1923 Sears catalog house, and the Hunting, Fishing, and Trapping Museum: Working the River.