The Newseum—a 250,000-square-foot museum of news—offers visitors an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits. The Newseum features seven levels of galleries, theaters, retail spaces, and visitor services. It offers a unique environment that takes museum-goers behind the scenes to experience how and why news is made.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, film and multimedia screenings, classes, lectures, and other educational and recreational events and programs. DC Metro area schools can schedule field trips with free admission for students; both box lunches and lunch vouchers are available with payment. Students may attend one 50-min., standards-aligned, educator-led class for free during their field trip (see the list of available classes, for grade levels 3-12); and educator-led tours are available for an additional charge.

To prepare for a field trip, teachers may attend an orientation session. Groups may also schedule professional development sessions for educators—subjects relevant to U.S. history include "The Battle for the Bill of Rights: The Free Press and the Founding of Our Nation," "The Photographic Revolution: The Ethics and Impact of Seeing the Story, From the Civil War to the Slums of New York to Today," "A Global Nation: The Free Flow of Information and Media Ethics," and "Making a Change: Civil Rights and the First Amendment."

The Society operates two house museums. The 1872 Lee House was home to Dr. Norman Lee, one of Junction City's first doctors. It was originally located in Lancaster and was moved to its present location in the late 1800s using logs and a team of horses; it now displays photos, furniture, tools, and clothing from Junction City's past. The 1871 Pitney House belonged to Mary Pitney (1891—1995), a school teacher, published poet, painter, world traveler, and humanitarian. Born and raised in this house, she lived the later years of her life here; today, it is being restored and features a room devoted to Danish historical artifacts from Junction City's first settlers, a cutaway of the home in the kitchen so visitors can see how buildings were constructed in that time period, and Mary's original furniture in the living room. Next door to the Pitney House is the first jail, built in 1873.

The houses offer exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events.

The Society operates two sites, the Hanchett-Bartlett Homestead and Lincoln Center. Lincoln Center is the home of the Robert and Elizabeth Solem Museum. Located on the site of the former Lincoln Junior High School, the Center's museum offers visitors exhibit areas which focus on a variety of local historical themes. The exhibit areas include the Beloit Gallery, Arthur Missner Veterans Gallery and Memorial, the Ted Perring Sports Hall of Fame, and the Beloit Hall of Fame. The Center also houses the Beloit Historical Society's offices, archives, community room, collection storage rooms, and the Luebke Family Memorial Library. The 1857 Hanchett-Bartlett Homestead houses period artifacts.

The sites offer exhibits, research library access, tours, and occasional educational and recreational events.

Visitors can experience the tangible artifacts of Randolph County's history at the Society's Museum. Housed in the 1828 Blackman-Bosworth Store building in the center of Beverly, the museum has a broad-based collection including early settlement tools, Civil War artifacts, belongings of early citizens, store and business collections, and much more. Behind the museum, open by appointment or during special events, is an original subscription school rescued from a rural Randolph County location. This small schoolhouse originally housed a school "subscribed" by parents who would band together to hire a teacher before universal public education in the area. Today it features an extensive collection of one-room school artifacts and memorabilia. Under construction behind the museum is the relocated Stalnaker Cabin, an early settlement log cabin. Saved and moved by the Stalnaker Family Association, the cabin is being restored by the Society and will be a future addition to the museum holdings. The museum also features rotating special exhibits in the meeting room, as well as hosting the regular informative programs of the Society.

The museum offers exhibits.

The Society has its headquarters in the Center, which preserves the history of life in rural southwestern Pennsylvania from the times of the region's first farmers to the present day through exhibits, workshops, and educational programs.

The center offers exhibits, tours, workshops, and educational and recreational events.

The Rock Island County Historical Society is a non-profit organization founded in 1905 by a group of community leaders dedicated to preserving the history of Rock Island County. Its facilities are located in an 1870s home and adjoining research archival library in an historic district of Moline, Illinois. The Atkinson-Peek House Museum contains period furniture dating back to the early 1900s and is designated as a Moline historical site. The third floor room contains exhibits of a doctor's office and a dentist's office.

The society's research library features a collection of books, photographs, family histories, and maps detailing the history of the county. The library has educational and recreational programs; the museum offers tours and exhibits.

The 1876 Grand Union Hotel, also called El Hotel Grande, and eventually the Stagecoach Inn, has had a variety of uses during its existence. It has served as post office, tearoom, boys' military school, restaurant, and exclusive gift shop. A cowboy movie starring Hoot Gibson and Sally Eilers was filmed here in the 1930s. Around the Stagecoach Inn are the Tri-Village buildings, made up of replicas of a pioneer home, a Spanish-Mexican adobe, and a Chumash Ap (tule dwelling), representing the three historic eras in the Conejo Valley.

The museum offers tours, exhibits, and educational programs.

Since 1966, the Society has preserved historical records, collected writings and artifacts of life in Louisa County, and presented these collections to the public through exhibits, magazines and lectures. It operates The Sargeant Museum of Louisa County History at 214 Fredericksburg Avenue in Louisa, which has permanent exhibits featuring Native Peoples, Revolutionary War, Civil War, Transportation, Education and Government. Temporary exhibits delve more deeply into particular periods and themes of interest. In addition, the museum staff sponsor monthly programs for the public and offer genealogical assistance. Visit the Society’s website for hours, upcoming events, and online resources.

Programs are available for 4th and 5th grade history classes in The Westward Movement, Reconstruction, and Civil Rights. Others upon request. An online archive at provides primary source materials for teachers and students across all levels of study. Contact the museum director for more information.

Visitors to the Society's Museum can see an 1861 log house, 1856 cabin, and 1930s filling station. Also on the half-block museum site is the 1861 Chicago Rock Island Depot which originally was in Victor, IA, and a 1900 period farmhouse. Each structure has period furnishings and other historical items. The filling station display includes an antique race car and 1938 fire truck. The new addition houses clothing and military displays, original furnishing from the Gritter School, and items that would be found in a country store. The museum's collection of uniforms and military gear spans from the Spanish American War through the Civil War, World War I, World War II (including both men's and women's uniforms), Vietnam, and Desert Storm.

The museum offers exhibits and research library access.

The Society operates the McLean County Museum of History, housed in the Old McLean County Courthouse. The Museum presents exhibits and programs that explore the history of Central Illinois and its people.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, workshops, and other educational and recreational programs.