Museum of Arts and Sciences [FL]

Description

The Museum of Arts and Sciences houses extensive collections of art, both early American and international; Americana; and artifacts related to Florida history, as well as to science and natural history.

The museum offers exhibits, film screenings, planetarium shows, programs and guided tours for school groups, programs for homeschoolers, summer camps, and other recreational and educational events.

Arizona State Museum

Description

The Arizona State Museum documents the history and culture of native Southwestern peoples, and houses the largest collection of Southwestern pottery in the world.

The museum offers exhibits, self-guided and guided tours for school groups, summer camps, recreational and educational events, and research library access.

Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages [NY]

Description

The Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages allows visitors the chance to learn about three unique subjects. Through recreated period rooms and permanent and traveling exhibits, visitors can explore Long Island history and its relation to natural history; in the art galleries, they can view pieces from the early 1800s to the present day; and, in the 10 carriage galleries, they can compare almost 100 carriages. Visitors may also walk through the grounds and the historic structures on-site, dating from the late 18th through the late 19th century.

The museum offers exhibits and tours and educational programs for school groups.

Museums of Oglebay Institute [WV]

Description

The Oglebay Institute maintains two museums: the Wheeling Mansion Museum and the Glass Museum. Built in 1846 by Hanson Chapline, Oglebay Institute's Mansion Museum was originally an eight-room farmhouse; today, it serves as a museum of local history. Situated adjacent to the Mansion, the Oglebay Institute Glass Museum displays cut-lead crystal, Victorian art glass, Peachblow, pattern and depression and Northwood's carnival glass, and many other glass examples showcasing Ohio Valley history. Visitors can also watch skilled glass artisans at work.

The museums offer exhibits, educational programs for school groups, workshops and classes, and recreational and educational events.

Smithsonian American Art Museum [DC]

Description

The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the nation's first collection of American art, houses one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world. Its artworks reveal key aspects of America's artistic and cultural history from the colonial period to today. More than 7,000 artists are represented in the collection, including major masters, such as John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, Helen Frankenthaler, Christo, David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, Lee Friedlander, Nam June Paik, Martin Puryear, and Robert Rauschenberg.

The museum offers exhibits; tours, including self-guided and guided tours for school groups; videoconferencing "virtual fieldtrips" for classrooms; and recreational and educational events, including performances.

Reece Museum [TN]

Description

The B. Carroll Reece Memorial Museum, part of the East Tennessee State University, houses the University's Art Department's permanent collection of works of art and a historical collection which serves to preserve the story of the settlement of Johnson City, Washington County, and the surrounding region.

The museum offers exhibits and occasional recreational and educational events, including art classes for students.

National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum [OK]

Description

The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum is America's premier institution of Western history, art, and culture, collecting, preserving, and exhibiting a collection of Western art and artifacts.

The Museum offers educational programs suitable for grades K-6, focusing on the American Cowboy or American Indian. Students spend time in a classroom setting participating in hands-on activities with Museum artifacts then take a guided tour of art and historical galleries with special exhibits supporting the chosen theme. Programs meet select Oklahoma PASS skills for Art and Social Studies.

Guided tours are provided for grades 7-12 and can be tailored to specific themes. Traveling Trunks also are available for two week periods and focus on American Indian or American Cowboy lifestyle or Oklahoma history.

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.

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).