Buffalo Bill Historical Center [WY]

Description

The Buffalo Bill Historical Center contains several museums devoted to Buffalo Bill, Western art, the Plains peoples, and Greater Yellowstone. The Buffalo Bill Museum presents the life of W.F. Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, and his historical context in the American West. Cody (1846-1917) operated a Wild West show between 1883 and 1913, which helped to shape popular understandings of the Western frontier. The Whitney Gallery of Western Art displays major works of Western art. Artists represented in the collection include William Ranney, T.D. Kelsey (born 1946), Edgar S. Paxson (1852-1919), and Fritz Scholder (1937-2005). The Plains Indian Museum presents the history and culture of the people of the Plains. Collection strengths include the early reservation period (circa 1880-1930), the Lakota, Crow, Arapaho, Shoshone, and Cheyenne. The Cody Firearms Museum presents the world's most comprehensive collection of U.S. firearms. The Draper Museum of Natural History presents the natural history of the Greater Yellowstone area.

All sites offer exhibits. The Draper Museum of Natural History offers interactive exhibits, audio-visual elements, monthly lectures, and an interactive elementary school educational program. The center also offers research library access and research assistance. Center educational opportunities include themed guided tours for students, traveling trunks, resource kits, videos, and teacher workshops. The website offers a Plains Indian Museum virtual exhibit and Cody Firearms Museum firearms glossary and idiom listing.

The Whitney Gallery of Western Art is closed, as the site adds interpretation, situating artworks in context.

Burlingame Historical Society [CA]

Description

The Burlingame Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Burlingame and Hillsborough, CA.

The society offers a two-hour walking tour of historic Burlingame for local third grade students, a local history class for teens and adults, exhibits, and house history research assistance. Exhibits are typically located within the Burlingame City Hall or the Burlingame Public Library. The website offers a memory board and a virtual exhibit on the history of Burlingame's grocery stores.

Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society and Ker Place

Description

Ker Place is a circa 1800 Federal-style residence, now serving as a historic house museum. The museum provides information on the history of Virginia's Eastern shore. This structure serves as the headquarters of and is operated by the Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society.

The society and museum offer guided tours, an archaeology lab, period rooms, and history camps.

Yolo County Historical Society, Spring Lakes School, and Hattie Weber Museum [CA]

Description

The Yolo County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Yolo County, California. To this end, the society operates the Spring Lakes School and the Hattie Weber Museum. The school is used to introduce students to education and the school experience circa 1890. The Hattie Weber Museum presents the local history of Davis, California and the surrounding areas. The museum is named after Davisville's first paid librarian, who began her career in 1906.

The society offers educational programs for students in the Spring Lakes School, and exhibits and school tours in the Hattie Weber Museum.

Maritime Event Center [WA]

Description

The Maritime Event Center is a rental and special events venue which also maintains an interactive maritime museum.

The center offers interactive exhibits and both youth classes and tours about Puget Sound's maritime history, fisheries, global trade, and transportation.

Kensington Mansion [SC]

Description

Kensington Mansion is an 1854 Italianate Revival residence furnished with Victorian decorative arts. The grounds include the original kitchen building. Jacob Stroyer's (1848-1909) biography My Life in the South, published in 1879, described his time as a slave on Headquarters Plantation, site of Kensington Manor.

The mansion offers period rooms and guided tours. Reservations are required for groups of 10 or more.

Hazelwood Historic House Museum [WI]

Description

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.

Washburn-Norlands Living History Center [ME]

Description

The Washburn-Norlands Living History Center depicts 18th- and 19th-century rural life in the state of Maine. Norlands was originally the Washburn family home. This family included a Senator, Secretary of State, congressmen, governors, and founders of the Washburn-Crosby Gold Medal Flour Company. Structures include a one-room schoolhouse, mansion, meeting house, and library.

The site offers living history interpreters, period rooms, guided building tours, self-guided grounds tours, curriculum-based interactive programs for students, outreach programs for schools, hands-on activities, overnight programs, and picnic tables.