Albany, Illinois
One of the most important archaeological sites in Illinois, Albany Mounds contains evidence of continuous human occupation over the last 10,000 years.The Albany Mounds date from the Middle Woodland (Hopewell) period (200 BCE-CE 300), older than either the Cahokia or Dickson Mounds of the...
Kodiak, Alaska
The Alutiiq Museum, located on the first floor of the Alutiiq Cultural Center, traces the 7,500 years of the Alutiiq people of southern Alaska. To help preserve the culture and language of the Alutiiq people, the center engages in campaigns to teach the Alutiiq language while museum staff and...
Boulder, Utah
The pre-Columbian Anasazi people inhabited this site, which has been partly excavated, and left behind numerous artifacts that today serve to educate visitors about their way of life.Visit the museum and partially excavated prehistoric Indian village at Anasazi State Park. The park is located in...
Aztec, New Mexico
At the Aztec Ruins, visitors can follow ancient passageways to a distant time and explore West Ruin, a center of ancestral Pueblo society that once housed over 500 masonry rooms.Aztec Ruins provides visitors an intimate opportunity to explore the ancient Puebloan “great house” known as...
Los Alamos, New Mexico
At Bandelier, evidence of the Ancestral Pueblo people can be found in the dwellings, artifacts, and continuing culture of the modern pueblo.Bandelier has a long human history and links to the modern Pueblos. Early Spanish settlers, the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC), and the National Park Service...
Cocoa, Florida
This museum hosts a wide array of exhibits and dioramas addressing everything from pre-history, including the excavation of 7,000-year-old skeletons, to humanity's ascent past the atmosphere.Colorful dioramas depicting the area from the days of woolly mammoths and saber tooth cats to the modem era...
Chinle, Arizona
Reflecting one of the longest continuously inhabited landscapes of North America, the cultural resources of Canyon de Chelly include distinctive architecture, artifacts, and rock imagery.Canyon de Chelly also sustains a living community of Navajo people, who are connected to a landscape of great...
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The caverns provide a historical look at 113 of some of the largest caves in North America, formed when sulfuring acid dissolved the surrounding limestone.The park’s cultural resources represent a long and varied continuum of human use starting in prehistoric times, and illustrating many...
Coolidge, Arizona
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument preserves an ancient Hohokam farming community and "Great House."Casa Grande Ruins is the first archeological site to be preserved by the federal government and the fifth oldest unit in the National Park Service. Set aside as a federal land reserve in...
Springerville, Arizona
Mysteriously abandoned in the early 15th century, Casa Malpais Archaeological Park is situated atop a rim of volcanic rock overlooking the Little Colorado River's Round Valley.The Mogollan people occupied Casa Malpais, which means "House of the Badlands," for almost 200 years before...
Port Charlotte, Florida
A museum dedicated to the history of the Charlotte area whose collection ranges from the pre-Columbian to the post-WWII.Charlotte County Historical Center, located at Bayshore Live Oak Park on beautiful Charlotte Harbor. Our mission is to offer a variety of programs and services to educate the...
Chimney Rock, Colorado
Explore the ruins of a Pubeloan Indian village at this archeological site. A guided walking tour takes visitors through the different sites and explains their individual significance.Designated an Archaeological Area and National Historic Site in 1970, Chimney Rock lies on 4,100 acres of San Juan...
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...
Bernalillo, New Mexico
Coronado State Monument includes the partially reconstructed ruins of the ancient Pueblo of Kuaua, a Tiwa word for "evergreen".The pueblo of Kuaua was occupied from 1300 AD and abandoned near the end of the 16th Century. Named for Francisco Vasquez de Coronado who is thought to have camped near...
Crystal River, Florida
The park served important ceremonial purposes for Native Americans in the pre-Columbian era.A focal point of pre-Columbian Native American ceremony and commerce, the Crystal River Archaeological State Park may have served up to 7,500 Indian visitors annually for 1,600 years before the first...
Dickinson, North Dakota
The 13,400-square-foot museum, which opened in 1994, provides a facility for preservation and display of geological and paleontological specimens for public review and education.The museum contains 11 full-scale dinosaurs displayed in a Triassic-Cretaceous time continuum and 3 full-scale dinosaurs...
Kenosha, Wisconsin
The Dinosaur Discovery Museum is the only museum to exclusively focus on the link between birds and meat-eating dinosaurs, one of the most complete known fossil records.The main gallery of the Museum shows the link between birds and meat-eating dinosaurs (theropods), which is one of the most...
Bismarck, North Dakota
Double Ditch Indian Village was a large earthlodge village inhabited by the Mandan Indians for nearly 300 years (AD 1490 - 1785).According to Mandan oral history, Double Ditch was one of seven to nine villages simultaneously occupied near the mouth of the Heart River. The Mandan population in this...
Florissant, Colorado
Beneath a grassy mountain valley in central Colorado lies one of the richest and most diverse fossil deposits in the world.The fossils, rocks, hills, and valleys that make up Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument reveal to us an ancient story of redwood forests, volcanic eruptions, and a climate...
Daytona Beach, Florida
This museum features a collection of antique toys and a Racing Zone that focuses on the beach's history of racing.Housed in the former 1910 Merchant's Bank building, the museum exhibits the history of the greater Daytona Beach area from 5,000 B.C. to the present day. Located in Historic Downtown,...
Valparaiso, Florida
This museum is filled with materials pertaining to the Northwest region of Florida and features exhibits on the human population of the area and the surrounding natural resources.The Heritage Museum is located on the original main street of Valparaiso, Florida. The oldest part of the building was...
Fort Walton Beach, Florida
For sites make up this park, including the Indian Temple Mound Museum, the Temple Mound, 1912 Camp Walton Schoolhouse, and the 1918 Garnier Post Office.Together these three sites form a cultural center which presents the history of the Fort Walton Beach area from prehistoric times, some 12,000...
Osprey, Florida
This museum connects visitors with over 5,000 years of human history from the southwest coast of Florida.Sitting upon 30 acres, this museum features a number of regional history exhibits. Experience prehistory by stepping inside A Window to the Past, an archaeology exhibition about the gulf coast...
Miami, Florida
This museum traces the history of a region that has experienced a range of influences from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas to create a rich history and culture.An expansive museum examining the history of southern Florida from the arrival of the first European settlers to the...
West Palm Beach, Florida
Housed in the historic 1916 Courthouse, the Historical Society of Palm Beach County offers exhibits covering thousands of years of history in Palm Beach.Housed in the historic 1916 Courthouse, the Historical Society of Palm Beach County offers exhibits covering thousands of years of history in Palm...
Cortez, Colorado
Hovenweep National Monument protects six prehistoric, Puebloan-era villages spread over a twenty-mile expanse of mesa tops and canyons along the Utah-Colorado border.Multi-storied towers perched on canyon rims and balanced on boulders lead visitors to marvel at the skill and motivation of their...
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...
Fort Walton Beach, Florida
Run by the City of Fort Walton Beach, the Indian Temple Mound Museum houses a pre-Columbian mound. Despite being subject to over a millennium of erosion, the mound is 12 feet high and 223 feet wide at its base. Historians estimate that the mound was built around 850 AD by a Mississippian tribe as a...
Jacksonville, Florida
Located on Jacksonville's Southbank, this museum features interactive, award-winning exhibitions and engaging programs covering physical and natural science, regional history, and astronomy.The museum displays 12,000 years of history in the Currents of Time exhibit or explore snakes, turtles, birds...
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...
Calumet, Michigan
The area sports a tradition of copper mining stretching back millennia.From 7,000 years ago to the 1900s people mined Keweenaw copper. Native peoples made copper into tools and trade items. Investors and immigrants arrived in the 1800s in a great mineral rush, developing thriving industries and...
Unionville, Illinois
At Kincaid Mounds are preserved the remains of a number of earthen mounds that were once part of a city created by Native Americans during the Middle Mississippian period. (A.D. 900-1500).The Kincaid site likely served as a trade link between native settlements in the Cumberland-Tennessee river...
Tallahassee, Florida
Visitors can learn about the history of Florida's capitol and explore nature trails at this state park.The Native Americans who resided on the banks of Lake Jackson between 1200 and 1500 A.D. left monuments by which to remember them: three temple mounds, one of which stretches 26 feet towards the...
Monticello, Florida
This historical park offers a natural environment for trails, picnics, and wildlife viewing in one of Florida's most historic state parks.The 46 foot tall Letchworth-Love Mound, built between 100 and 900 A.D., is the tallest Indian mound in Florida and an important piece of the state's prehistory...
Overton, Nevada
The Lost City Museum was established in 1935 by the National Park Service to exhibit artifacts that were being excavated from Pueblo Grande de Nevada.In the early 1930s, Anasazi Indian sites were being threatened by the waters of Lake Mead as it backed up behind the newly built Hoover Dam....
Palmetto, Florida
In this unspoiled natural environment, visitors can step into natural history and experience a piece of America as it was before European colonization.The largest remaining Indian mound in the Tampa Bay Region, Manatee County Emerson Point Mound offers a rare look back into the ceremonial practices...
Gainesville, Florida
The Matheson Museum explores the history of the Gainesville area from the Timucuan Indians through European settlement and United States membership.The museum is flanked by three other sites: The Matheson House dates from 1867 and incorporates elements of Classical Revival and Gothic architecture;...
Douglas, Wyoming
The Medicine Lodge site has long been known for its Indian petroglyphs and pictographs, directly associated with important human habitation sites for thousands of years.Within a 12-mile radius of Medicine Lodge, five distinct vegetation zones can be found. These range from the desert basin to the...
Micanopy, Florida
This local history museum features memorabilia from the small Florida town of Micanopy.An abundance of exhibits reside in the Micanopy Historical Society Museum, which is housed in a warehouse dating from the 1890s. They cover everything from the pre-Columbian Timucuan Indians who inhabited the...
Camp Verde, Arizona
One of our nation's first National Monuments, Montezuma's Castle is one of the best preserved prehistoric cliff dwellings in North America.This 20 room high-rise apartment, nestled into a towering limestone cliff, tells a 1,000 year-old story of ingenuity and survival by the Sinagua people in an...
Washington, District Of Columbia
The Museum of Natural History is dedicated to inspiring curiosity, discovery, and learning about the natural world through its unparalleled research, collections, exhibitions, and education outreach programs.Opened in 1910, the green-domed museum on the National Mall was among the first Smithsonian...
New Madrid, Missouri
Located in a former saloon at the foot of Main Street, the New Madrid Historical Museum reflects the history of this river town from the Mississippian period up through the early 20th century.The museum displays artifacts from pre-Colombian culture, The Civil War, and other periods of the 19th and...
Pensacola, Florida
The museum educates locals and tourists on the history of Pensacola.
The first floor of the Pensacola Historical Museum, located in the Arbona building, displays exhibits that change every six months. The second floor houses the permanent collection, including the Army/Navy Gallery, the Maritime...
Fredonia, Arizona
Pipe Springs was discovered and named by the 1858 Latter-day Saint missionary expedition to the Hopi mesas led by Jacob Hamlin.In the 1860s Mormon pioneers from St. George, Utah, led by James M. Whitmore brought cattle to the area and a large cattle ranching operation was established. In 1866,...
Warsaw, Virginia
Housed in an old 1872 jail, the museum collects, preserves and tells the story of Richmond County from prehistoric to present.The exhibits at the county museum exhibit highlight the Rappahannock Tribe, an early English settlement, and local patriot Francis Lightfoot Lee. An old country store has...
Bar Harbor, Maine
Saint Croix Island is the 1604 site of the first French attempt to colonize the territory they called l'Acadie and the location of one of the earliest European settlements in North America.The winter of 1604-1605 on Saint Croix Island was a cruel one for Pierre Dugua’s French expedition. Iced...
Tampa, Florida
This comprehensive and imaginative museum chronicles the history of Florida and Tampa Bay.December 2008 will not only bring a comfortably cool climate to central west Florida; it will also see the opening of the Tampa Bay History Center. The Center's many exhibits will cover the past 12,500 years...
Tarpon Springs, Florida
This historical society houses an abundant collection of research resources.
Tarpon Springs, Florida has an interesting and culturally rich past that helps to draw visitors each year. The members and volunteers of The Historical Society understand the significance of this history and are working to...
Wapello, Iowa
The Toolesboro site consists of seven burial mounds on a bluff overlooking the Iowa River.The five-acre site includes several large surviving mounds, an education center and a prairie demonstration plot. The State Historical Society of Iowa owns and preserves the Toolesboro Indian Mounds and Museum...
Martinsville, Virginia
This science museum is associated with the Smithsonian institute.Visitors can experience the natural diversity of Virginia at this science museum, which encompasses millions of years of Virginia history. With over 22 million items in its collections, the museum is at the forefront of scientific...