B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretative Center [MS]

Description

The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center will take visitors back to the place where B.B. King grew up and lived the blues long before he learned to make the music that would change his life. Proposed educational, cultural, and character development programming will take the form of classes, mentoring, and interactive exhibits. In addition, the stories of the Delta, from its history to its music, social mores, race relations, literature and legends, and adversities and successes will be examined in one interpretive setting.

Please note: The museum will open Sept. 13, 2008.

The museum will offer exhibits, tours, and educational and recreational events and programs.

Castle Air Museum [CA]

Description

Castle Air Museum presents history through the display of restored historic aircraft. Visitors can stand under the wing of a Convair RB-36H Peacemaker, a Boeing B-52, or of many other planes.

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

Point Sur State Historic Park [CA]

Description

Point Sur Lighthouse and its supporting lightstation buildings, now a California State Historic Park, stand atop a dramatic volcanic rock just offshore in Big Sur, California. This historic aid-to-navigation has a modern aero-beacon which still guides ships along the treacherous Central California Coast. From 1889 until 1974, families lived and worked in the buildings atop Point Sur.

A second, individual website for the park can be found here.

The park offers tours.

Junction City Historical Society and House Museums [OR]

Description

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.

Historic Waco Foundation and Historic Houses

Description

The Foundation operates four historic house museums, including the 1858 Greek Revival style Earle-Napier-Kinnard House, the 1877 Italianate Villa East Terrace, the 1868 Greek Revival Style Fort House, and the 1866 McCulloch House. Fort House Museum displays exhibits from the Heritage Collection of textiles, garments, and accessories; and the other homes display seasonal vignettes from the collection. The Foundation itself is housed in the 1890s Queen-Anne-style Victorian Hoffman House.

The houses offer tours, exhibits, lectures, workshops, and other educational and recreational programs.

Highland Historical Society and Highlands Mansion and Gardens [PA]

Description

The Highlands Mansion and Gardens is a 44-acre historic site with a late-18th-century Georgian mansion and two-acre formal garden. Surrounded by massive stone walls, the gardens offer an example of early-20th-century estate gardening with an unusual blend of horticulture and architecture. The site features nine outbuildings, including a bank barn, springhouse, greenhouse, smokehouse, and Gothic Revival gardener's cottage.

The mansion offers tours and educational and recreational programs.

Titan Missile Museum

Description

The Titan Missile Museum is the only publicly accessible Titan II missile site in the nation. Visitors can tour the underground missile site and see the 3-ton blast doors, the 8-foot-thick silo walls, and an actual Titan II missile in the launch duct. They can also visit the launch control center and experience a simulated launch.

The museum offers tours and educational and recreational programs.

National Naval Aviation Museum

Description

At the Museum, visitors can experience hands-on history displays on naval aviation and see more than 150 restored aircraft representing Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard aviation. They can feel the sensations of flight in a flight simulator or visit the Naval Aviation Memorial Theater and view an IMAX film.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, film screenings, and educational and recreational programs.