Housed in DC's Old Post Office, the National Postal Museum guides visitors through the history and development of the U.S. Postal Service, and its operation today.
The museum offers exhibits; self-guided and guided tours for school groups (for preK-8); and recreational and educational events, including lectures.
The Greek Revival-style Clarke House, built in 1836 and today the oldest surviving home in Chicago, presents the lifestyle of an antebellum middle-class Chicago family.
The museum offers tours.
The Piney Point Lighthouse, Museum, and Historic Park allow visitors to explore the history of the 1836 lighthouse and of the Piney Point area in general, with an emphasis on the area's maritime history.
The museum offers exhibits and guided tours for school groups.
The St. Clement's Island Museum, located at the site of Maryland's first colonial landing, guides visitors through the events that led up to that moment in 1634 and examines the industries that sprang up in Maryland as it was colonized.
The museum offers exhibits and guided tours for school groups.
The Tawas Lighthouse, in Tawas Point State Park, has been in operation since 1876 and still provides views both of Lake Huron and of lighthouse history.
The lighthouse offers exhibits and tours.
The Mann House, built in 1883 and furnished with pieces from the 1840s to the turn of the century, allows visitors a view into the life of Michiganians at the close of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
The house offers exhibits, guided tours, and special programs for school groups.
The Chippewa Valley Museum preserves and presents the history of Wisconsin's Chippewa Valley through exhibits on the region's history and through historical structures, including the 1866 Lars and Grethe Anderson log home, the 1882 one-room Sunnyview School, and the 1871 Schlegelmilch House. Visitors may also eat and drink at a turn-of-the-century ice cream parlor within the museum.
The museum offers exhibits, tours for school groups, history kits for rent, a one-room schoolhouse which educators may rent for classes, and research library access.
The Yakima Valley Museum's 65,000-square-foot facility offers historical exhibits on the Yakima Valley—its natural history, American Indian culture, pioneer life, early city life, and the roots and development of the Valley's fruit industry. The museum also houses a collection of horse-drawn vehicles, from stagecoach to hearse; an historical exhibit and reconstruction of the Washington, DC, office of former Yakima resident and environmentalist, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas; and a changing schedule of special exhibitions. A special set of exhibits, the Children's Underground, provides hands-on activities that complement the core museum exhibitions; and visitors can eat and drink in a functioning replica of a late 1930s Art Deco soda fountain.
The Museum also owns and operates the restored 1898 H.M. Gilbert homeplace, which is available for tours.
The museum offers exhibits, research library access, guided tours for student groups, cultural trunks for rent, performances, and other recreational and educational events.
The Heritage Farmstead preserves a representative example of Blackland Prairie farm culture and history from about 1890 to 1920 on its four-acre farmstead site. The centerpiece 1891 Farrell-Wilson house represents the daily life of a prosperous farm family on the North Texas Blackland Prairie.
The farmstead offers exhibits; guided tours by costumed docents, which may be adapted for school groups; living history demonstrations; and recreational and educational events.
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.