The African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa presents African American life—both modern and historical—within the state of Iowa. Collections consist of more than 1,600 artifacts.

The museum offers exhibits; guided tours; self-guided tours; adult, preschool, elementary, middle school, and high school workshops; summer camps; an interactive living history program for students; Scout programs; outreach programs; traveling trunks; distance learning classes; non-circulating research library access; traveling exhibits; and an oral history project in which children are trained to conduct interviews. Guided tours must consist of 15 or more visitors. Two weeks advance notice is required to schedule guided tours. Please call ahead to ensure space if you plan on taking a self-guided tour. The website offers an educator's guide, a website scavenger hunt, and virtual exhibits.

The Custer County Historical Society maintains a local history museum, focusing on 19th-century daily life in the county. Exhibits include a recreation of a pharmacy and general store.

The museum offers exhibits and research library access.

The Society manages and operates the state's Museum of History, which preserves and presents the history of the state. Exhibits include a Cheyenne tipi; a fully-stocked covered wagon ready for a trip on the Oregon Trail; a 1950s diner made by the Valentine Industries; and a locomotive made in 1880 for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. In the same complex, the society maintains the 1847 Potawatomi Mission, once operated as a boarding school for children of the Potawatomi Indians, and the one-room Stach School, interpreted as it was in the 1910s and 1920s.

The society offers research library access and school tours to orient middle- and high-school students to the library; the museum offers exhibits, tours (including standards-based school tours), and occasional recreational and educational events. The mission offers tours, a small exhibit on Kansas missions, and a period classroom for school groups; the Stach School offers school tours and "Rural School Days"—four-hour programs for fourth- and fifth-grade students that introduce them to student life in 1920.

The North Berrien Historical Society maintains a local history museum, focusing on the history of North Berrien County.

The museum offers exhibits, tours for school groups (free with reservation), and occasional recreational and educational events.

The South Windsor Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of the South Windsor, CT area and its people. To this end, the society operates a museum of local history within the 1837 Pleasant Valley District 5 Schoolhouse. Historically, major area industries have included agriculture and ship building.

The museum offers exhibits, and is open May through November.

The Marshall Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Marshall, MI and its people. To his end, the society operates the Honolulu House.

The society offers group tours of the Honolulu House Museum, the Grand Army of the Republic Hall, the Capitol Hill School and Children’s Museum, and the Governor’s Mansion, as well as step-on guides for historic district bus tours.

The Pittsfield Historical Society maintains the Depot House Museum, displaying artifacts from local history.

The museum offers exhibits.

Black Hawk State Historic Site commemorates Native Americans of the area, particularly the Sauk and Mesquakie (Fox) Indians, who lived here from about 1750 to 1831. The Watch Tower Lodge, built between 1934 and 1942 by the Civilian Conservation Corps and the State of Illinois, houses Works Progress Administration murals and basement "nature rooms" are available for science activities with school groups. Exhibits in the John Hauberg Museum of Native American Life depict the daily life of the Sauk and Mesquakie Indian nations. Dioramas show the four seasons with a full-sized winter house, a replica of a summer long house, an authentic dugout canoe, and other objects relating to the Sauk and Mesquakie. Another exhibit describes the importance of the fur trade to the Native Americans. Also located in the Lodge is an exhibit outlining the 1934–1942 activities of the Civilian Conservation Corps in developing Black Hawk Park. Outside the lodge is a large statue of Black Hawk executed in 1892 by sculptor David Richards. The Lodge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

The site offers exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events.

The Moriah Historical Society maintains the Iron Center, a museum of local railroad and mining history. Housed in a restored carriage house, the Iron Center focuses on the mining and transportation of iron ore from Lake Champlain.

The museum offers a short video and exhibits, and is open to school groups, by appointment, free of charge.

The Northbrook Historical Society maintains a local history museum in its headquarters, the 1894 Northfield Inn. The lower level contains permanent exhibits, the main floor changing exhibits, and the top floor a recreation of an 1890s home.

The museum offers exhibits, a video tour, programs for school groups (grades 2-4), and research library access.