The Hazelwood Historic House Museum is a Greek Revival residence furnished in the 1880 through 1899 Victorian styles. Home owner Morgan L. Martin (1805-1887) served as state convention president at the time the Wisconsin state constitution was drafted.
The museum offers house tours and neighborhood tours. Reservations are required for groups of 10 or more. Tour options include added refreshments.
The Bayfield Heritage Association seeks to preserve and share the history of Bayfield and the Apostle Islands region, Wisconsin. To this end, the association operates the Bayfield Heritage Association Heritage Center. Key topics include settlement, logging, brownstone quarries, agriculture, fishing, tourism, and transportation.
The center offers exhibits, a period barbershop, tours, educational programs, and seminars. Upon request, the center will play filmed oral history interviews in which residents discuss when and how their families came to the area.
The Oconto County Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the historical heritage of Oconto County and the surrounding area. The society maintains three historic buildings, the Beyer Home Museum, a mansion on the National Register of Historic Places, the George E. Hall Annex which serves as a local history museum, and an urban barn which is open for tours during the summer months. The society has also recently assumed control of the First Church of Christ, which is also open for tours during the summer months.
The society offers exhibits, guided tours, and special events including lectures and community events. The website offers visitor information, a timeline of Oconto County history, and a calendar of events.
The Old Courthouse Museum presents the history of Washington County, WI. The museum contains a research library, restored circuit courtroom, and two floors of exhibits. The Romanesque Revival structure itself was designed by architect Henry C. Koch, and completed in 1889.
The museum offers traditional and interactive exhibits, a period room, outreach presentations, traveling trunks, and a research library.
Richfield Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Richfield, Wisconsin. To this end, the society is developing a historical park.
The society offers a traveling trunk, a guided village walking tour for students, and summer guided gristmill tours.
The Circus World Museum chronicles the history of the American Circus, from its inception in the late 1700s until the present day. The museum features a live circus in addition to a library and research center.
The museum offers field trip programs, a library and research center, special events including festivals and shows. The website offers visitor information, an events calendar, and a history of Circus World.
The Sauk County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Sauk County, Wisconsin. To this end, the society operates a museum, located within the 1903 Tudor Revival-style Jacob Van Orden Mansion. This structure contains a variety of exhibits dedicated to topics of local historical interest. Topics include Devil's Lake, Native Americans, pioneers, military, and architecture.
The society offers museum tours and archival access. Reservations are required for group tours, and the archives require payment for non-member use.
The Wisconsin Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of the state of Wisconsin. To this end, the society operates the Wisconsin Historical Museum. Permanent exhibits include frontier and immigration history, as well as Native American life. The Native American exhibit includes an Aztalan-style house, which visitors are welcome to enter. Collections consist of more than 110,000 objects and 400,000 artifacts.
The museum offers exhibits, films, interactive audio-visual presentations, full-scale dioramas, workshops, storytelling, lectures, demonstrations, an activity-based self-guided tour, guided tours, hands-on activities, and educational programs in compliance with state educational standards. Reservations are required for school groups and for use of the lunchroom. The society also offers archaeology traveling trunks and outreach presentations for second through fourth grade students. The website offers an extensive state historical database, lesson plans, information on National History Day programming, virtual exhibits, an educational framework on historical thinking, educational games, a fourth-grade textbook, and exhibit-related teachers' guides.
The Brown County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Brown County, Wisconsin. To this end, the society operates the Hazelwood Historic House Museum. This structure was built in 1837 by Morgan L. Martin, who served as president of the state convention which drafted the Wisconsin state constitution in 1847, and today houses 10 period rooms of Victorian-era artifacts.
The society offers guided tours of the house and of the historic Astor Neighborhood.
Stonefield preserves and displays Wisonsin's agricultural and dairy heritage. Locations on-site include the State Agricultural Museum, which displays farm tools, machinery, and models; a recreated 1901 farmstead; a recreated rural farming village with more than 30 locations; the 1879 estate of Governor Nelson Dewey (1813-1889), first governor of Wisconsin; and the Stonefield Depot. Collection highlights include a Rumley Oil Pull; an 1896 McCormick Auto Mower, the oldest tractor in the U.S.; and the first rubber tire tractor.
The museum offers exhibits and self-guided tours. The farmstead offers self-guided tours, tours by costumed interpreters, and period rooms. The village offers period businesses and demonstrations of broom making, carpentry, and blacksmithing. The estate offers guided tours by costumed interpreters, self-guided tours, and period rooms. The depot is open for annual events. The site offers picnic facilities and snack sales. Field trips require reservations, and meet Wisconsin educational standards.