The creation of the museum was a grass roots project with tremendous financial help from two local foundations, the Salem Community Foundation and the Pearce Foundation, plus aid from the Burchfield Foundation. Generous donations from individuals and members of the Burchfield Homestead Society through their dues also helped greatly. You can help our project develop and thrive by joining the society . To receive a year’s membership send a check for $10 to: Burchfield Homestead Society, P.O. Box 317, Salem, Ohio, 44460. The $10 is tax-deductible. As a member you will be kept up to date on various museum activities and programs.

The society has an annual meeting on or near April, 9, which was Burchfield’s birthday. It is held at the law office of Attorney Frederic Naragon, the society’s secretary, at 248 E. State St. Salem. The meeting features a reception with refreshments, an informal talk by a prominent figure in the arts, and a tour of the museum. The law office was once a book store where Burchfield worked in 1910.

Tours of the museum are scheduled from mid-April to the end of November on Saturday and Sunday afternoons from 1 to 4. Admission is free; donations are welcome. Tours are also available by appointment other days of the week all year long by calling 330-332-8601. Please call this number if you are traveling to Salem from some other town so we can discuss travel time to Salem. Our museum is a grass-roots, all-volunteer project so our tour guides must travel from home and meet the visitor at the museum. Waiting an hour for a visitor is not a tour guide’s favorite pastime.

Salem, Ohio is 18 miles southwest of Youngstown on State Route 14, which in downtown Salem is the main east-west street called State Street. Just east of the downtown buildings is a north-south street, Lincoln Ave. A BP gas station is on the northeast corner. Travel north past 2nd and 3rd streets to 4th St. Turn right (east) on Fourth. Between the intersections with Vine and Rose streets you will find the museum on the south (right)side (867 E. 4th St).