National Willa Cather Center Mobile and Web Apps

Use this app to experience a Willa Cather tour, either in person or from wherever you are! Our new mobile apps (also available as a web-app for use on your desktop computer) for iOS and Android provide self-guided tours of the Willa Cather Childhood Home, the American Bittersweet exhibit, and the town tour while providing bonus collections material, historical photos and audio tour support. These projects were made possible through a National Endowment for the Humanities CARES Act grant. To learn more, click here.

Just added to our mobile app! (as of June 2021) — Guided virtual tours of the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie and our Country Tour. Now you can experience the entirety of Willa Cather's Red Cloud and prairie world through the wonders of handheld technology.

(As of October 2022) — If you missed your chance to see the Burlington Depot, the Farmers & Merchants Bank, or the Pavelka Farm while they were being renovated, you can still do so—digitally! We’ve just launched our virtual Preservation Tour on our National Willa Cather Center mobile app! Featuring historic images as well as in-process photos, this virtual tour traces the evolution of our historic sites.

Web-App Access for desktops

Virtual Cather Tour Website

Virtual Cather gives students, teachers, and guests a content-rich, interactive way to experience Willa Cather’s Red Cloud—from around the state or the world! Featuring historic photos, audio and video scenes from Cather’s work, and interviews with noted Cather scholars, the Virtual Cather Tour walks visitors through four of Red Cloud’s most important Cather sites and places these sites in context with Cather’s fiction.       

Click HERE to experience Virtual Cather.

Guided Tour Videos

Join us for guided video tours of our Wila Cather Historic Sites with Education Coordinator Rachel Olsen, by clicking on the videos and site links below.