Harmony Museum volunteers Dave Szakelyhidi and Frank Luek install solar panels Thursday on the museum's information cabin, which is being transformed into an exhibit on how early Harmony-area residents worked.

Solar panels on a 200-year-old cabin?

Why not, says Historic Harmony.

Volunteers on Thursday installed panels on the museum’s Visitor Information Center, at 551 Main St., as part of Harmony Museum’s move to renovate and update its off-the-grid, 1820s-era log cabin.

Rodney Gasch, president of Historic Harmony, the nonprofit that operates the museum, said the panels will be part of a larger project funded in part by a Rivers of Steel grant intended for new and innovative programs and exhibits.

Although the visitors’ cabin doesn’t have a finished interior — guests can retrieve informational pamphlets, maps and other literature from the porch — Historic Harmony will transform it in to an interpretive exhibit on how early settlers worked.

Read more in Friday's Butler Eagle.