The Museum of Methodism, adjacent to Barratt's Chapel,  was built in 1964 by the Peninsula-Delaware Conference.  Funding came from the sale of the closed Bethel M. E. Church on the Chesapeake-Delaware Canal which the Army Corps of Engineers needed to purchase for the widening of the canal. 

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The Museum of Methodism contains:

Archives of the Peninsula-Delaware Conference of The United Methodist Church

• Files of each church of the Peninsula-Delaware Conference

• Membership books and other records from closed churches

• Journals and Memoirs of ministers

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Displays of Methodism memorabilia from Peninsula-Delaware Conference Churches

Library of approximately 4000 items on Methodist History

• Conference Journals from 1784 - Present

• Disciplines

• Publications on Methodism

• Histories of Churches of the Peninsula-Delaware Conference

• Hymnals (both with music and without music)

• Biographies

• Periodicals