The Kansas City Museum allows visitors to explore the history of Kansas City, Missouri, form the mid-19th century to the present day.
The museum offers exhibits, outreach presentations, workshops, lectures, film screenings, and other recreational and educational events.
Union Station, built in 1814, today has been restored to house, among other attractions, traveling exhibits, presentations and shows, and a permanent rail exhibit.
The Station offers exhibits, planetarium shows, performances, science demonstrations, big-screen presentations, tours for school groups, and home school days.
The Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art showcases the work of potter George Ohr (1857-1918), as well as the works of other artists.
The museum offers exhibits, guided tours for school groups, outreach presentations, classes, camps, and occasional other recreational and educational events.
The Air Zoo invites visitors to explore the history of aviation through interactive presentations and exhibits.
The museum offers exhibits, programs for homeschoolers, 3-D film presentations, rides and flight simulators, programs and self-guided and guided tours for school groups, outreach presentations, professional development for educators, history boxes for loan, and camps.
The College Park Aviation Museum, according to its website, preserves the story of its location, "the world's oldest continuously operating airport," founded in 1909.
The museum offers exhibits, guided tours for school groups, research library access, and occasional recreational and educational events.
The Kansas Cosmophere and Space Center introduces visitors to the sweep of the Cold War Space Race and space exploration.
The museum offers exhibits, IMAX shows, planetarium shows, science demonstrations, programs and self-guided and guided tours for school groups, professional development opportunities for educators, camps, and other recreational and educational events.
The Dixon Historic Center, housed in President Ronald Reagan’s boyhood South Central School, presents Reagan and local history.
The center offers exhibits and educational programs in Ronald Reagan's restored sixth-grade classroom (grades 5-7).
The Global Health Odyssey Museum traces the history of the Center for Disease Control, as well as addressing several public health topics. Exhibits present the role of the CDC in the study of polio, Legionnaire's Disease, and U.S. obesity. Visitors can view a wide variety of historical medical equipment, including a ped-o-jet used to fight smallpox and the microscope of Dr. Joseph Mountin, founder of the CDC.
The museum offers exhibits, guided tours for student groups (grades 7-12), and educational camps.
The Ronald Reagan Foundation and Library maintains a museum with more than 200,000 square feet of exhibit space, "dedicated to the promotion of individual liberty, economic opportunity, global democracy, and national pride." The museum's permanent exhibits and installations include a full-scale replica of the Oval Office, a portion of the Berlin Wall, and the Air Force One pavilion, where visitors may enter and tour the Presidential plane. Temporary galleries hold other topical exhibits. Visitors may also pay their respects at President Reagan's gravesite and memorial.
The museum schedules school tours, with free admission for K12 students and for every chaperone per 10 students. School tours must be scheduled in advance; be sure to ask about arranging for box lunches and for free curriculum guides. Educators may also schedule free class visits to the museum's Discovery Center, a collection of sets (Command Decision Center, Oval Office, White House Press Room, and Air Force One Simulator) in which students will role play decision-making situations as historical figures.
Professional development workshops for educators may also be scheduled, as can a workshop for A.P. U.S. History and Government classes, orienting them to using the resources of the library archives.
From the Arizona Historical Society website:
"The Pioneer Museum in Flagstaff is located in the historic Coconino County Hospital for the Indigent. Exhibits reflect Flagstaff and northern Arizona history, as well as ranching, logging, and transportation."
The museum offers exhibits.