Turtle Mountain Chippewa Indian Historical Society

Description

The Society operates a museum filled with items reflecting Chippewa traditions. These include sculptures created by talented local stone carvers and paintings by both young and old artists. The traditional history collection includes many objects that show the unique culture of the Chippewa, as well as three dioramas, showing the Chippewa transition from the woodlands to the plains, and a recreated Red River ox cart represents the Metis culture also found among the Native regional cultures.

The museums offers exhibits and research library access.

Sunnyvale Historical Museum

Description

The Sunnyvale Historical Society operates a museum in the restored 1950 Murphy House. The Society's primary mission is to expand the education program offered by the society for third and fourth graders studying local and California history. This program is the only hands-on learning program in the area and is beyond capacity and demand from local schools. The Society's intent is to expand the program to educate 3,000 area students per year.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, demonstrations, a film, and educational programs.

Highland Park Historical Society and Museum (IL)

Description

The Society's mission is to preserve the past and present for viewing in the future. The museum, housed in an 1871 Italianate Victorian house, displays several Victorian-era decorated rooms, including a parlor and a kitchen. The Society also has a collection of clothing, toys, pictures, and maps, as well as artifacts and memorabilia on high school teacher Walter Duhrban of Walt's Workshop, a 1950s TV show. The history of Ravinia Park is also preserved here.

The museum offers exhibits.

Rivers of Steel Heritage Area and Bost Building

Description

Created by Congress in 1996, the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area is committed to preserving, interpreting, and managing the historic, cultural, and natural resources related to Big Steel and its related industries. Encompassing over 5,000 square miles in the seven counties of Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Westmoreland, Greene, Fayette, and Washington, Rivers of Steel is building on this area's remarkable transition from heavy industry to high technology and diversified services as well as bolstering the new regional economy by promoting tourism and economic development based on this region's historic industrial saga.

A multifaceted program, the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area's mission includes: historic preservation, cultural conservation, education, recreation, and resource development. Currently, the Heritage Area has bills in Congress to create the Homestead Works National Park. The proposed park would be located on 38 acres surrounding the Carrie Furnaces, the last of the giant blast furnaces from the Homestead Works, and the Pump House, site of the bloody 1892 Homestead Steel Strike.

River of Steel also maintains the Bost Building, an 1892 hotel, in which it presents exhibits.

The Bost Building offers exhibits and educational programs.

Ocean City Life-saving Station Museum [MD]

Description

Housed in an 1891 structure used 1962 by the Life-saving Service and then by the Coast Guard, the museum offers exhibits featuring the history of the U.S. Life-saving Service and of Ocean City. It also displays a mermaid collection, shipwreck artifacts, sands of the world, and bathing fashions. Aquariums feature local marine life.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, and educational programs and demonstrations.

Modoc County Historical Society and Museum

Description

The Modoc County Historical Society was established in 1978 to help preserve and promote interest in the history of the far northeastern corner of California. The society's museum documents the development of the Modoc County area through displays of American Indian artifacts and firearms that date from the 15th century through World War II.

The museum offers exhibits.
NOTE: Per website museum is currently closed

Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society and Museum Complex [NY]

Description

The Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society is devoted to the preservation and interpretation of Long Island's past—in particular, the history of the Bellport-Brookhaven-East-Patchogue area. The Society pursues this goal through its Museum Complex, its museum collections and gallery exhibitions, its educational programs, its outreach to the community, and its publication of studies on local history and material culture. The Museum Complex includes the 1833 Post-Crowell House, the 19th-century Ralph Brown Building, a blacksmith shop, the Barn Museum, the John Chester Memorial Boathouse, and an 1850 gazebo.

The society offers research library access and occasional recreational and educational events; the Museum Complex provides exhibits and tours.

Marco Island Historical Society and Museum

Description

The Society is a nonprofit educational group dedicated to the investigation and preservation of Marco Island's history and the dissemination of that information to the public. The society maintains two museum spaces in Key Marco.

The museums offer exhibits; the society offers lectures and occasional tours.

Please note that as of October, 2010, the museum is closed for installation of new exhibits.