Housed in DC's Old Post Office, the National Postal Museum guides visitors through the history and development of the U.S. Postal Service, and its operation today.

The museum offers exhibits; self-guided and guided tours for school groups (for preK-8); and recreational and educational events, including lectures.

The National Museum of Natural History, part of the Smithsonian Institute, presents visitors with a chance to explore the sweep of global natural history, from human to mineral to animal. Temporary exhibits may highlight topics relevant to U.S. history education.

The museum offers exhibits, self-guided tours for school groups (orientation and pre- and post-visit materials are available online), IMAX presentations, and recreational and educational events.

The Museum houses permanent and temporary historical exhibits interpreting Northern Virginia Piedmont history through artifacts, documents, videos, and images.

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

The Society's Rice County Museum of History contains a collection of objects, images, and artifacts ranging from prehistory to the present day. The exhibits are variable, as the Society rotates its collection through its display space. Behind the museum, visitors may explore the Historical Village, including the Holy Innocents Episcopal Church, the 1850s Pleasant Valley School, the 1857 Volg Log Cabin, and the Harvest and Heritage Halls. The Society also maintains and operates the Alexander Faribault House, built in the Greek Revival style in 1853 by Alexander Faribault for a cost of $4,000.00. The Faribault family lived in the house for a few years, moving later to a large brick mansion on the bluffs overlooking the Straight River. The house was used as a civic center and as a private home. Today, the Faribault House displays pieces belonging to the Faribault family and other early settlers.

The museum offers a slide show, exhibits, tours, educational programs, and research library access; the Faribault House offers tours.

The Milwaukee Public Museum, one of the largest in the United States, is a museum of human and natural history providing a dynamic and stimulating environment for learning, with something to excite and challenge visitors with a diversity of interests. The Museum currently houses over six million specimens. Permanent exhibits are contained in three-and-a-half floors of exhibit area, with additional space for traveling and temporary exhibits. Visitors can tour the Museum's 150,000 square feet of exhibit space to visit Africa, Asia, Europe, the Arctic, South and Middle America, the Pacific Islands, and a Costa Rican rainforest. They can take a small step back in time to the turn-of-the-century streets of Old Milwaukee, a European village, or ancient Mediterranean civilizations.

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

In 1839, a group of gentlemen calling themselves the Alexandria Lyceum joined with the Alexandria Library Company to build a grand hall to provide a place for lectures, scientific experiments, and quiet reading. Eventually, the building itself became known as the Lyceum and, since that time, it has been a Civil War hospital, a private home, an office building, and the nation's first Bicentennial Center. In 1985, the Lyceum became Alexandria's History Museum, providing exhibitions, school programs, lectures and concerts, volunteer opportunities, and space for rental functions for the community.

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

The Alexandria Archaeology Museum is dedicated to preserving and studying Alexandria's rich archaeological heritage and fostering within citizens and visitors a connection between the past and present while inspiring a sense of stewardship and adventure.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, and educational programs.

The mission of the Black History Museum is to enrich the lives of Alexandria's residents and visitors, to foster tolerance and understanding among all cultures, and to stimulate appreciation of the diversity of the African American experience. The institutional complex is composed of the Museum, the Watson Reading Room, and the Alexandria African-American Heritage Park. The Museum, devoted to exhibiting local and regional history, incorporates the Robert H. Robinson Library as one of two exhibition galleries. The Robert H. Robinson Library was originally constructed in 1940 following a sit-in at the segregated Alexandria Library. The Reading Room, established in 1995, provides an environment for learning about the diversity of African American cultural traditions. A nine-acre green space and wetland, the Park offers a place for celebration, commemoration, and quiet reflection.

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

The museum of the Westerly Armory displays both community and military memorabilia in order to preserve community, state, and national history. The Armory itself is an artifact, built in 1901–02 and designed by the firm of William R. Walker and Son. It was the second Walker armory, following Pawtucket.

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

The Society's Museum, housed in the 1865 Christian Union Church, displays exhibits related to local history. The Society also operates the 1725 Southermost Schoolhouse and the 19th-century Old Town Hall.

The museum offers exhibits and research library access; the Old Town Hall offers exhibits.