The Kelly Art Deco Lighting Museum is the world's only museum dedicated to displaying U.S. Art Deco slipe-shade lights. Collections include chandeliers, sconces, and table lights from between 1928 and 1938.
The museum offers exhibits.
Little Buffalo State Park contains an operating gristmill, a historic covered bridge, a historic farmhouse, a narrow gauge railroad trace, and a historic railroad car.
The site offers environmental education programs, hands-on activities, guided walks, campfire programs, teacher workshops, outdoor activities, and picnic sites. Reservations are required for group visits. Please do not bring firewood into the park. This is to avoid introduction of invasive species.
The Waseca County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Waseca County, Minnesota. To this end, the society operates a research center and a museum of local history.
The society offers exhibits, research library access, and research assistance. Non-members are charged a fee for library use; and anyone requesting research assistance will be charged as well. The website offers a family history database, a word search, and a cross word puzzle.
The Harvey House Museum is located within the dining room of the circa 1939 Harvey House. Collections include artifacts of the Santa Fe Railway and of daily life in the history of Valencia County, New Mexico.
The museum offers exhibits.
The Shelburne Museum, located in northern Vermont, is one of the nation's finest and most unconventional art museums. The museum is home to over 150,000 works, which range from impressionist paintings to quits and textiles. The collection is displayed in 39 seperate exhibition buildings.
The museum offers guided tours, field trip programs, summer camps, and art exhibits. The website offers a brief history of the museum, as well as visitor information, and summaries of current museum exhibits.
The Salem Historical Society Museum houses the town of Salem, Ohio's history over three buildings. Artifact's date back to the town's founding in 1806 and the rooms of the museum each have a theme, such as the Kitchen or the Clothes room.
Group tours must be scheduled ahead of time, although there is no formal school tour or programming.
The Utah Fire Museum is home to more than 35 fire apparatuses and covers over 30,000 sq. feet.
Tours are available for schools on appointment. No other educational programming exists.
The Scottsdale Historical Museum is dedicated to recounting the history of Scottsdale, Arizona. Their permanent collection contains items from the Scott family, the founders of the town. Temporary exhibits include late 19th century transportation items and other items from the time of Scottsdale’s founding (1888).
Tours are docent-led and admission is free. Educational programs and school tours aren't offered so the teacher will have to arrange plans with the museum to meet his/her students' needs.
The William J. Clinton Presidential Library is located in Little Rock, Arkansas, and chronicles the history of the Clinton presidency. The library and museum holdings at the Presidential Library are the largest within the Presidential Library system, and include of 75 million pages of paper documents, almost 2 million photographs and over 80,000 museum artifacts.
The Presidential Library offers research resources, exhibits on the Clinton presidency, interpretive tours, and special events. The website offers information regarding research resources, resources for teachers including curriculum guides, and an events calendar.
The Pioneer Living History Village is a 90-acre living history 1800s town. Structures are either period or reproductions based on historical research. Sights include an opera house in which Lilly Langtry (1853-1929), famed English actress and beauty, once sang; the childhood home of Henry Fountain Ashurst (1874-1962), one of the first Senators of Arizona; and a circa 1880 cabin which survived an Apache raid.
The museum offers period rooms, demonstrations, living history interpreters, and re-enactments. The museum is closed on rainy days.