International Bowling Museum (TX)
The Museum collects, preserves and displays the 5,000-year history that has led to the worldwide success of bowling.
The museum and hall offer exhibits, film clips, tours, and educational programs.
The Museum collects, preserves and displays the 5,000-year history that has led to the worldwide success of bowling.
The museum and hall offer exhibits, film clips, tours, and educational programs.
The Homestead is the home of the fictional Old Order Amish family of Daniel and Lizzie Fisher. Inside the Homestead, visitors learn of Amish traditions and practices, including Sunday church services held in the home. They tour the nine rooms on the first and second floors and learn up close how the Fisher family lives from day to day.
The homestead offers the "experiential theater" film Jacob's Choice and tours.
The 157-foot-high lighthouse is still an aid to navigation. Visitors who climb the 199 steps to the top of the lighthouse are rewarded with a panoramic view of the Cape May peninsula. The first known lighthouse at Cape May was built in 1823. By 1847 a new lighthouse was erected on a high bluff; however, due to the encroaching sea and poor building design it was eventually dismantled. Built in 1859, the current lighthouse used the original bricks of the 1847 lighthouse. Also on the site is a World War II bunker, built as part of the Harbor Defense Project of 1942.
The site offers exhibits, tours, and educational and recreational events.
The Society maintains and operates the restored early-20th-century one-room Green School. Visitors can see what school was like in the not-so-distant past, and depending on who is volunteering that day, perhaps even chat with someone who attended a one-room school.
The society offers lectures and occasional educational and recreational programs; the school offers access.
The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum explores the evolving role of women and their contributions to society through the continuing, and often untold, story of women's pursuit for equality. The museum is the headquarters of the historic National Woman's Party and was the Washington home of its founder and Equal Rights Amendment author Alice Paul. Sewall-Belmont, named in the first Save America's Treasures legislation, is the only museum in the nation's capital dedicated to preserving and showcasing a crucial piece of our history—the fight for the American woman's right to vote. This struggle is documented through one of the most significant collections in the country focused on the suffrage and equal rights movements.
The museum offers a short film, exhibits, tours, educational programs, forums, and research library access.
The Hiller Aviation Museum celebrates the human spirit of adventure expressed in the history of aviation in Northern California and beyond. Through aircraft collections, exhibits, and programs, the museum provides multiple ways for visitors to experience the adventure and innovation of flight and to use aviation as a portal for exploring science, history, and technology.
The museum offers exhibits, tours, educational programs, research library access, and educational and recreational events.
The Hall's Museum features over 50 exhibits exploring the achievements of Rome's gifted athletes with pictures, trophies, uniforms, and equipment. The inclusive descriptions on the 126 Inductee Plaques give visitors a capsule review of the milestones in the inductees' sports careers.
The museum offers exhibits.
The Fire Department houses fire engines and equipment dating from the 1920s to the present day.
The department offers exhibits by appointment.
This Powder River was the vein of life during the boom days of the gold rush. The landscape still bears the scars. Miles of tailings line the banks of the river, a remembrance from the prosperous days of mining. The Sumpter Valley Dredge left much of the rocky footprint that visitors can see on their trek along Highway 7. The dredge is an important link to Oregon's pioneering past and development. It is one of the largest and most accessible gold dredges in the U.S., and the last of three built on the Powder River. Built in 1935, it ran until 1954. It dug up more than four million dollars worth by a simple, but dramatic method.
The site offers interpretive services, according to the website; however, the services are not described.
The site
The Los Angeles Conservancy is dedicated to the recognition, preservation, and revitalization of the architectural and cultural heritage of greater Los Angeles. THe group offers fun activities for adults and kids alike, including youth and family docent-led and self-guided walking tours. They also provide several kids’ guides to historic places in Los Angeles, activities for teachers, parents, and kids, and additional resources to explore the history of L.A.
Visit the website for more information about kids' guides, lesson plans and activities for teachers that adhere to California teaching standards.