The Greek Revival-style Clarke House, built in 1836 and today the oldest surviving home in Chicago, presents the lifestyle of an antebellum middle-class Chicago family.

The museum offers tours.

The Piney Point Lighthouse, Museum, and Historic Park allow visitors to explore the history of the 1836 lighthouse and of the Piney Point area in general, with an emphasis on the area's maritime history.

The museum offers exhibits and guided tours for school groups.

The Iron Industry Museum traces the development of the industry in the state. Located at the site of the first iron forge in the Lake Superior region, it presents indoor exhibits and outdoor interpretive paths that lead visitors through the 19th-century origins of the industry forwards.

The museum offers exhibits and a short audiovisual presentation.

The Oglebay Institute maintains two museums: the Wheeling Mansion Museum and the Glass Museum. Built in 1846 by Hanson Chapline, Oglebay Institute's Mansion Museum was originally an eight-room farmhouse; today, it serves as a museum of local history. Situated adjacent to the Mansion, the Oglebay Institute Glass Museum displays cut-lead crystal, Victorian art glass, Peachblow, pattern and depression and Northwood's carnival glass, and many other glass examples showcasing Ohio Valley history. Visitors can also watch skilled glass artisans at work.

The museums offer exhibits, educational programs for school groups, workshops and classes, and recreational and educational events.

Located at the site where 59 delegates gathered on March 2, 1836 to declare Texas's independence from Mexico, the Star of the Republic Museum traces the history of the Texas Republic (1836–1846) and interprets the history, cultures, diversity, and values of early Texans. Through 10,000 square feet of exhibits and audiovisual presentations, the Museum presents the experiences of ordinary Texans and extraordinary events. The exhibits emphasize social and cultural history, as well as military and political events. Primary memoir accounts are used as much as possible to let the people of the Republic tell their story "in their own words." Exhibits are designed to interpret interesting and significant artifacts with photographs, graphics, contextual material, and text labels. The interpretation of the artifacts also includes the social context of the objects, illustrating the people and values from which they were produced. In addition, seasonal exhibitions, special events, and interpretive demonstrations illustrating early 19th-century life are regularly scheduled, while the Showers Brown Discovery Center incorporates hands-on educational activities to help visitors make a personal connection with the past.

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

The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum is America's premier institution of Western history, art, and culture, collecting, preserving, and exhibiting a collection of Western art and artifacts.

The Museum offers educational programs suitable for grades K-6, focusing on the American Cowboy or American Indian. Students spend time in a classroom setting participating in hands-on activities with Museum artifacts then take a guided tour of art and historical galleries with special exhibits supporting the chosen theme. Programs meet select Oklahoma PASS skills for Art and Social Studies.

Guided tours are provided for grades 7-12 and can be tailored to specific themes. Traveling Trunks also are available for two week periods and focus on American Indian or American Cowboy lifestyle or Oklahoma history.

The Shaker Museum interprets Shaker life and culture and exhibits artifacts from Shaker history, including Shaker furniture, oval boxes, textiles, craft machinery, art, tools, and agricultural machinery. The Shaker Library holds archival materials including books and historic pictures.

The museum offers exhibits; the research library offers library access, by appointment only.

NOTE: The museum and library are currently closed while the institution relocates to a new site at historic Mount Lebanon.

The 17,000-square-foot Greensboro Historical Museum preserves and presents the history of the Piedmont area. Visitors can explore exhibits recreating Greensboro life at the turn of the previous century or on topics including short-story writer O. Henry, First Lady Dolley Madison, the Greensboro Sit-ins, war, and work life. They can also tour the 1788 Isley House, the 1781 McNairy House (restored to its 1850 condition), and the First Presbyterian Cemetery.

The museum offers exhibits, guided tours for school groups, traveling trunks on loan for a small fee, in-class outreach presentations for a small fee, and occasional recreational and educational events.

The USS Constitution, or "Old Ironsides," is the oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat in the world. Built in 1797, the wooden ship saw active service until 1881, taking part in the War of 1812 and, as a training ship, in the Civil War.

Today, visitors may tour the Constitution.

Magnolia Mound Plantation illustrates and interprets the lifestyle of the French Creoles who formed the culture which still influences and pervades life in southern Louisiana. The plantation house was once the center of a 900-acre operation with frontage on the Mississippi River. Spanning the colonial era and early statehood, Magnolia Mound's collection of furnishings and decorative arts include one of the foremost public groups of Louisiana-made objects, in restored and documented settings.

The plantation offers exhibits and educational programs, including school tours and traveling trunks.