Winchester, Virginia
As the oldest house in Winchester, this stone building is an example of early settlement life in the lower Shenandoah Valley.The oldest house in Winchester, this stone building is a wonderful example of early settlement life in the lower Shenandoah Valley. Furnishings include a fine collection of...
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Museum serves as a repository for the cultural traditions of New Orleans’ urban society.The Backstreet Cultural Museum contains exhibits, artifacts, memorabilia, films and videos depicting Mardi Gras Indians, Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs, and Traditional Jazz Funerals. These three elements...
Baltimore, Maryland
This museum features an eclectic mix of artwork from different cultures, ranging from Antioch mosaics to African headdresses.
From a single object in 1914, The Baltimore Museum of Art’s outstanding collection today encompasses 90,000 works of art, including the largest holding of works by...
Williamsburg, Virginia
This restored home, once residence to the Rockefeller family, lies on historical colonial Williamsburg grounds.One of the restored 18th-century properties at Colonial Williamsburg, this was the Williamsburg home of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. whenever they came to town. Unlike the rest of...
Bennington, Vermont
The Bennington Museum features fine art, decorative art, and historical artifacts closely related to the Vermont area.The 28,000-square-foot museum, which owns more than 60,000 artifacts from southern Vermont and the surrounding area, contains the Grandma Moses Gallery, the largest collection of...
Neenah, Wisconsin
The museum contains an expansive collection of various glass artwork, from paperweights and Germanic glass to modern pieces. Mrs. Evangeline Bergstrom bequeathed 632 pieces in 1958 to become the foundation of a collection that would grow to 2,300 objects. The Germanic Glass collection...
Macon, Georgia
The museum houses the largest collection of Allman Brothers Band memorabilia.Renovations are underway to develop a unique museum that will draw music fans throughout the world to the place where Southern rock was born. The Allman Brothers Band Museum will be a rarity. There’ll be listening,...
Asheville, North Carolina
The heritage area at Blue Ridge is known for its thriving traditions of craft, music, agriculture, and Cherokee culture.The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area encompasses the mountains of North Carolina and includes the Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The region’s...
Los Angeles, California
The California African American Museum documents African American contributions to the West Coast and the America in general, from the country's settlement to present day.The California African American Museum provides insight into many different facets of African American history. The exhibition...
San Francisco, California
Boasting one of the largest collections of primary and secondary materials on the history of California, the California Historical Society is located in the former San Francisco Builders Exchange.Boasting one of the largest collections of primary and secondary materials on the history of California...
Red Lodge, Montana
This four-story, 20,000 sq. ft. brick building was built by the Red Lodge Miners Local No. 1771 to serve over 1,000 union miners in the Carbon County area.In 1909 the Labor Temple was completed in Red Lodge on the corner of 8th and Billings Ave (now Broadway). The first floor was occupied by the...
Norfolk, Virginia
This expansive art museum showcases 30,000 objects spanning over 4,000 years.The Chrysler Museum of Art combines one of America's great fine arts museums and two significant historic houses. In addition to maintaining a distinguished permanent collection, the Chrysler offers a comprehensive program...
Waterville, Maine
The Museum serves both as a teaching resource for Colby College and as an active cultural institution for the residents of Maine and visitors to the state.Founded in 1959 and now comprising four wings, more than 6,000 works, and more than 28,000 square feet of exhibition space, the Colby College...
Nashville, Tennessee
Spotlighting country music performers throughout the years, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum serves as a center to honor past achievements, and inspire those who pass through its doors.Started in 1961 by the Country Music Association, the Country Music Hall of Fame selected its first three...
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
The museum encompasses 16 new galleries including a new folk art gallery housing a nationally significant collection, a new Indian School gallery featuring the nation's largest repository of Carlisle Indian School artifacts and archival material. The Cumberland County Historical Society has...
Danville, Virginia
This 1857 Italian Villa house is best known as the Last Capitol of the Confederacy, but now operates as an art and history museum.This 1857 Italian Villa house is best known as the Last Capitol of the Confederacy, but now operates as an art and history museum.
The Danville Museum of Fine Arts and...
Wilmington, Delaware
The Delaware History Museum, located in a renovated art-deco Woolworth store, features three galleries of changing interactive exhibits on Delaware history, including displays of rare items of everyday life, costumes, children's toys, regional decorative arts, and paintings.In 1998, the Delaware...
Williamsburg, Virginia
This museum, named for Reader's Digest co-founder DeWitt Wallace, features an extensive collection of American and British antiques.The museum journeys through the history of Williamsburg and also connects the city to British history as well. The artifacts on display at the museum include furniture...
Indianapolis, Indiana
The museum, founded in 1989 by Harrison Eiteljorg, showcases Western and Native American art and cultural objects.Eiteljorg described his collection as a very personal one that grew not only out of his interest in the West, but also out of his love and respect for Native Americans and their...
Rockland, Maine
This museum celebrates Maine's role in the history of American art, and includes works by Thomas Cole, Edward Hopper, and Louise Nevelson.The Farnsworth Art Museum offers a nationally recognized collection of American art in its elegantly appointed galleries. Such great names in 18th- and 19th-...
Mackinaw City, Michigan
Much of this site is geared toward young children. Kids can pretend to be soldiers by dressing up in military uniforms and wash laundry with a washboard and a tub.
Much of this site is geared toward young children. Kids can pretend to be soldiers by dressing up in...
Jackson, Mississippi
This museum explores the life and history of Jewish-Americans across a 13-state region.Jews have lived in the South since the late 17th century. As late as 1820, more Jews lived in Charleston, South Carolina than in New York City. Jews have been an important part of the South ever since they first...
Dayton, Virginia
The museum of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society focuses on the history of the regionVisitors can see exhibits pertaining to the art and history of the people of this region. Within our museum collection, the museum offers a wonderful selection of local photos. Many of HRHS's...
Hanover, New Hampshire
On the campus of Dartmouth College, the Hood Museum of Art is one of the oldest and largest college museums in the country and has collections which date back to 1772.The study of art has long been an integral component of the curriculum at Dartmouth College, originally founded in 1769 in Hanover,...
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Hulihe`e Palace was the vacation residence of Hawai`ian royalty. Today it is a museum operated by the Daughters of Hawai`i and is a showplace of beautiful furniture and fascinating artifacts.Built in 1838 by Governor John Adams Kuakini (cousin of King Kamehameha), Hulihe`e Palace remained until...
Cordova, Alaska
Opened in 2004, the Ilanka Cultural Center celebrates the history and culture of Native Alaskans. For generations Eyak, Alutiiq, Ahtna, and Tlingit peoples have lived in Cordova for its proximity to Prince William Sound and the mouth of the Copper River. The museum houses a collection of native art...
Indianapolis, Indiana
One of the 10 oldest general art museums in the country, the Indianapolis Museum of art boasts a collection of over 50,000 works of art.One of the 10 oldest general art museums in the country, the Indianapolis Museum of art boasts a collection of over 50,000 works of art.
The Indianapolis Museum of...
Owensboro, Kentucky
This museum houses a vast collection of bluegrass music memorabilia.
Several interesting exhibits are on display at the museum. The Hall of Honor is an institution devoted to the recognition of noteworthy individuals for their outstanding contributions to bluegrass music.This museum houses a vast...
Howes Cave, New York
The Iroquois Indian Museum is devoted to the history and culture of the six-nation Iroquois Confederacy.Located in a building inspired by the traditional longhouse, the museum contains a vast library of original 17th- and 18th- century papers and a comprehensive collection of modern Iroquois art....
Sarasota, Florida
Initially built to house John Ringling's personal art collection, the John and Maple Museum of Art was established in 1927 for the people of Florida. John Ringling, one of the seven founding brothers of the Ringling Brothers Circus empire, who later merged with Barnum & Bailey Circus. John...
Kenosha, Wisconsin
The Kenosha Public Museum is a natural sciences and fine and decorative arts museum, including exhibits on mammoth excavations in the area.Established in 1933, the Museum's collections have grown to over 70,000, including almost 1,000 works in the fine arts collection. Exhibit programming includes...
Longmont, Colorado
The Longmont Museum and Cultural Center features four exhibit galleries, three classrooms for special events and programs, and an outdoor courtyard.Two of the four exhibit galleries, the Longmont gallery and the Longs Peak Room, contain long-term exhibits on the history and culture of Longmont and...
Lost River, West Virginia
Featuring the artifacts and exhibits of early history of the Lost River Valley, the museum also offers demonstrations from local artisans and their artwork may be purchased. Located on Highway 259 in Lost River, WV.Featuring the artifacts and exhibits of early history of the Lost River Valley...
Hilo, Hawaii
Originally built for New England missionaries David and Sarah Lyman in 1839, the museum was established in 1931 by their descendants.Today, the Mission House has been preserved, and is on both the State and National Registers of Historic Places. The Lyman Museum building, next door to the Mission...
Taos, New Mexico
At this museum in Taos, New Mexico, visitors enjoy outstanding historical collections of Native American jewelry, ceramics—including the Maria Martinez Family Collection, paintings, and weavings; Hispanic textiles, metalwork, and sculpture; and a wide range of contemporary Anglo-European...
Amherst, Virginia
This museum documents the history of the Monacan Indians, a tribe that has inhabited the Amherst region for over 10,000 years.The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia is a small tribe today, composed of about 1,400 people, located in the Amherst County area near Lynchburg and recognized as a tribe by...
Warner, New Hampshire
This museum explores the history and culture of the Native American people of the New Hampshire region and displays exhibits that celebrate their heritage.Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, Education and Cultural Center, is dedicated to connecting people of today with 20,000 years of ongoing Native...
Bethel, New York
The Bethel Arts Center's award-winning museum explores the significance of the Woodstock festival and its role in a decade of radical transformation.The Museum at Bethel Woods is an immersive and captivating multi-media experience that combines film and interactive displays, text panels and...
Cleveland, Tennessee
Featuring the rich history of the Ocoee River and Chattanooga region, the Museum Center at 5ive Points offers visitors artifacts, exhibits and galleries of the South.Featuring the rich history of the Ocoee River and Chattanooga region, the Museum Center at 5ive Points offers visitors artifacts,...
Madison, New Jersey
Drawing on its collection of over 8,000 hand tools and their products, METC uses material culture to interpret the lives and technologies of people who lived and worked before the rise of large-scale industrialization in this country.The mission of the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts is to...
Centreville, Maryland
Operated by the Queen Anne's County Historical Society, this museum portrays rural life in the county and includes a collection of antique farm tools, equipment used by watermen, and Indian artifacts.Building on the dreams of a group from the local farming community, including farmer, sea captain,...
Cherokee, North Carolina
Totally renovated in 1998, the new museum tells the story of the Cherokee people using high-tech wizardry along with an extensive artifact collection.The Museum of the Cherokee Indian has just installed a completely new exhibit that combines computer generated imagery, special effects, and audio...
York, Maine
The society is dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the history of the York region for the education and enjoyment of the public.The Museums of Old York, formerly the Old York Historical Society, is the product of a merger of three historical organizations, The Old York Historical and...
Guthrie, Oklahoma
The American Banjo Museum is the only established facility in the world devoted exclusively to the collection and conservation of the instruments, recordings, film, video, printed music, instructional materials, ephemera and memorabilia associated with the four-string banjo.The Museum is currently...
Roseville, Ohio
The collection contains many fine examples of Art Pottery and other pieces that date from the 1880's to the present.The people of the Woodland Indian cultures (from 800 B.C.E.) were the first people in South East Ohio to make pottery for storing and cooking food. Known to archeologists as the Adena...
Salinas, California
In the tradition of John Steinbeck, the center draws its inspiration from the diverse people and the land of the Salinas Valley to tell its history.In the tradition of John Steinbeck, the center draws its inspiration from the diverse people and the land of the Salinas Valley to tell its history....
Elko, Nevada
The Northeastern Nevada Historical Society maintains the Northeastern Nevada Museum in Elko, Nevada.Exhibits at this museum cover a wide range of topics about the area, from Native American and Chinese life in the area. There is a guns collection exhibited and many other historical aritifacts, as...
Searsport, Maine
The museum's collection represents the integral part that maritime life played in the settlement and development ofMaine's Penobscot Bay region.Penobscot's collection is housed in five different buildings, all dating from the first half of the 19th century. One is furnished with typical 19th...
Pablo, Montana
In the heart of the Flathead Indian Reservation is a unique cultural center, built by the region's original creators of the fine arts and crafts: the Salish, Kootenai and Pend d'Oreille peoples.The People's Center is the place to experience the rich cultural heritage of the Salish, Pend d'Oreille...
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Petroglyph protects a variety of cultural and natural resources including volcanoes, archeological sites and an estimated 20,000 carved images.The Visitor Center is the best place to start at Petroglyph National Monument. Staff members are available to help orient visitors the Monument and to any...