Santa Fe Trail Center Museum and Research Library [KS]

Description

The Santa Fe Trail Center interprets the historic transportation route known as the Santa Fe Trail. This regional museum and library preserves artifacts and manuscripts related to the blending of the major cultures along the Trail and enhances understanding of the continued development of the Trail. The center presents interrelated interpretive exhibits, learning programs, and resource materials to engage the public in learning about its past.

The center offers exhibits, school tours, and research library access.

Corcoran Gallery of Art [DC]

Description

The Gallery stands as a major center of American art, both historic and contemporary. Founded "for the purpose of encouraging American Genius," the Corcoran's collection of 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century American art represents most significant American artists. The Corcoran possesses a collection of European art as well.

The museum offers permanent and changing exhibits, tours (including tours for school groups), classroom materials for loan, and recreational and educational events (including professional development opportunities for educators).

Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum [IN]

Description

The Museum exhibits over 120 cars ranging from 1894 to 1999 and automotive displays on three floors. The museum has the most extensive collection of Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg automobiles in the world, and features the largest exhibit of Duesenberg automobiles on public display in the world.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, research library access, educational programs, and recreational and educational events.

Museum of Aviation Flight and Technology Center [GA]

Description

The Museum houses a collection of over 100 aircraft, missiles, and cockpits dating from a replica of an early 1896 glider to modern-era aircraft such as the B-1B bomber, the SR-71 Blackbird, the U-2 Dragon Lady and F-15 Eagle. Exhibits tell the story of aviation events from World War II to the present, including exhibits depicting the mission of Robins Air Force Base, the largest industrial employer in Georgia.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events.

Augusta Museum of History [GA]

Description

The Museum collects, preserves, and interprets history in relation to the past of Augusta and Central Savannah River region for the education and enrichment of present and future generations.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events.

Henry B. Plant Museum [FL]

Description

The Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel, an 1891 railroad resort, and the lifestyles of America's Gilded Age. Through educational exhibits and events, the museum takes visitors back to the late Victorian period, the beginnings of Florida's tourist industry, and the early years of the city of Tampa. This Victorian palace features Moorish revival architecture, European furniture, and art treasures of the original railroad resort.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events.

History Center [FL]

Description

At the Museum, a series of interactive permanent exhibits walk visitors through Florida history. Visitors will discover the area's first peoples and their initial encounter with the Spanish; fast forward to the 19th century and experience the Seminole Wars and the challenges of Central Florida's early pioneers; hear a firsthand account from a cowman of what life was like on the wide-open cattle range of the 1880s; find out about the Big Freeze in the 1890s that devastated the new citrus industry and sent many packing; move into the 20th century and experience Central Florida during the war years and the importance of the Orlando Air Base during World War II.

The museum offers exhibits, educational programs, research library access, and recreational and educational events.

Florida Holocaust Museum

Description

The Museum honors the memory of millions of innocent men, women, and children who suffered or died in the Holocaust. It is dedicated to teaching members of all races and cultures to recognize the inherent worth and dignity of human life in order to prevent future genocides.

The museum offers exhibits, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events.

Hill-Stead Museum [CT]

Description

Renowned French Impressionist paintings—four by Claude Monet, three by Edgar Dega—and notable works by Édouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, and James McNeill Whistler are highlights of the Museum's in situ exhibition. The 152-acre property features an Arts and Crafts carriage barn and theater, stone garages, woodland trails, a pond and dairy complex, and a Sunken Garden designed by Beatrix Farrand c. 1920.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, research library access, educational programs, and recreational and educational events.

Mattatuck Museum Arts and History Center [CT]

Description

The Museum provides professional scholarship, preservation, and historical programming about Mattatuck heritage, stimulates interest in the fine and decorative arts of Connecticut by showcasing their highest quality and expression, and encourages an appreciation of the humanities and the fine arts through its collections, exhibits, and programs. It houses permanent local history and art exhibits.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, reference library access, educational programs, and recreational and educational events.