Ferrum College's farm museum, part of the Blue Ridge Institute and Museum, is a collection of endangered structures moved from nearby locations, mostly from within Franklin County. Like many farm museums, they are set by the side of a modern highway. Here, however, they often serve as a backdrop for successful folklife festivals and farm demonstrations. Grouped together, the buildings attempt to demonstrate life on a c. 1800 German American farm in the western Piedmont. In the German building tradition, the farm's diamond-notched log house has a three-room plan with an interior chimney. The V-notched log kitchen is joined to the house by a breezeway. Among the outbuildings are an outdoor bake oven, a weaving house, a blacksmith shop, a springhouse, and a large, two-crib bank barn, one of fifty-eight documented in Franklin County by the Blue Ridge Institute. The Blue Ridge Institute (1992, Dickson Architects) houses a small museum with carefully mounted exhibits.