Holland Museum [MI]

Description

The Holland Museum features permanent exhibits on Holland's history "from settlement to city" and over 400 years of Dutch history in its Dutch Galleries. The Archives and Research Library, in the same building, houses the museum's collection of books, papers, and photographs related to Holland's history. Four Dutch art galleries exhibit a collection of 17th- to 19th-century paintings and decorative arts.

The museum offers educational tours for all grade levels, teaching resources for rent, research library access, and occasional recreational and educational events.

Newton History Museum at the Jackson Homestead [MA]

Description

The Newton History Museum presents permanent and changing exhibits on a variety of local historic topics. Visitors can discover what life was like for New England's earliest settlers, or learn about the abolition movement in Newton and how the Jackson family used their home as a stop on the Underground Railroad. The museum also serves as headquarters for the Newton Historical Society and holds its library and research collection.

The museum offers exhibits, educational programs for students, reference library access, and occasional recreational and educational events.

Louisiana State Museum - Patterson

Description

The Louisiana State Museum - Patterson is the official state aviation and cypress sawmill industry museum and houses two important collections documenting state history.

The Wedell-Williams Aviation Collection focuses on the legacy of Louisiana aviation pioneers Jimmie Wedell and Harry Williams who formed an air service in Patterson in 1928. Both men became nationally prominent during what was known as the Golden Age of Aviation. Although both Wedell and Williams perished in plane crashes, their legacy lives on in the memorabilia and planes on display.

The Patterson Cypress Sawmill Collection documents the history of the cypress lumber industry in Louisiana. Lumbering became the state's first significant manufacturing industry. As a result, cypress lumber harvested and milled in Louisiana was shipped in mass quantities across the United States. The town of Patterson was once home to the largest cypress sawmill in the world, owned by Frank B. Williams, and in 1997 the Louisiana State Legislature designated Patterson as the cypress capitol of Louisiana. The exhibit features a variety of artifacts, photographs, and film that tell the story of this important regional industry.

In addition, the museum also has a changing exhibit gallery that highlights other aspects of Louisiana's culture and history, and provides school tours and accompanying enhanced curriculum guides.

Louisiana State Museum - Baton Rouge

Description

The Louisiana State Museum features thematic exhibits on the diverse aspects of Louisiana history, industry, and culture. The museum includes two permanent exhibitions: Grounds for Greatness: Louisiana and the Nation, and Experiencing Louisiana: Discovering the Soul of America. Topics range from the Louisiana Purchase to Sportsmen's Paradise to Mardi Gras traditions throughout the state. Artifacts include a 48-foot wooden shrimp trawler, a Civil War submarine, a record-breaking marlin, a Krewe of lawnmowers, a New Orleans Lucky Dog cart and musical artifacts from Fats Domino, Buddy Guy, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Aaron Neville, and much more.

The museum offers school tours; for the third and eighth grades, these include enhanced curriculum guides.

Smoky Hill Museum [KS]

Description

The Smoky Hill Museum preserves, presents, and interprets the history of the Smoky Hills region. Exhibits include "Crossroads of the Heartland," which traces the area's history; the Prairie Education Lab, which recreates life in an 1860s cabin; and "One Keeper's Place," where children can solve interactive history mysteries.

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art [DC]

Description

The Gallery stands as a major center of American art, both historic and contemporary. Founded "for the purpose of encouraging American Genius," the Corcoran's collection of 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century American art represents most significant American artists. The Corcoran possesses a collection of European art as well.

The museum offers permanent and changing exhibits, tours (including tours for school groups), classroom materials for loan, and recreational and educational events (including professional development opportunities for educators).

Augusta Museum of History [GA]

Description

The Museum collects, preserves, and interprets history in relation to the past of Augusta and Central Savannah River region for the education and enrichment of present and future generations.

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

History Center [FL]

Description

At the Museum, a series of interactive permanent exhibits walk visitors through Florida history. Visitors will discover the area's first peoples and their initial encounter with the Spanish; fast forward to the 19th century and experience the Seminole Wars and the challenges of Central Florida's early pioneers; hear a firsthand account from a cowman of what life was like on the wide-open cattle range of the 1880s; find out about the Big Freeze in the 1890s that devastated the new citrus industry and sent many packing; move into the 20th century and experience Central Florida during the war years and the importance of the Orlando Air Base during World War II.

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