Old Cowtown Museum [KS]

Description

The Old Cowtown Museum is a living history museum where visitors can experience life in the midwest during the 1870s. Old Cowtown consists of a visitor's center, which offers exhibits and visitor information, as well as a fully reconstructed pioneer town. The reconstructed town contains a residential section, a blacksmithing shop, a business area, and a farm.

The museum offers educational programs, including tours tailored for specific grade groups; wagon rides; costumed interpreters; historic structures furnished with time period furnishings; and special events such as lectures, reenactments, and special interpretive events. The website offers visitor information, information regarding educational programs, supplemental materials for teachers including lesson plans and worksheets, and an events calendar.

MIT Museum [MA]

Description

The MIT Museum showcases current technologies and research being done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The museum houses a variety of exhibits and demonstrations that give visitors a glimpse into cutting edge technologies and innovations.

The museum offers exhibits, presentations, and programs that showcase current MIT research. In addition, the museum runs hands-on educational programs for local schoolchildren. The museum also offers individual and group tours of the museum. The website offers visitor information as well as information regarding upcoming events, presentations, and programs.

University Museums [IA]

Description

University Museums is a collection of five organizations; three museums, one educational program, and a sculpture garden, which are affiliated with the Iowa State educational system. The museums are the Brunnier Art Museum, Farm House Museum, Art on Campus Program, Christian Petersen Art Museum, and Elizabeth and Byron Anderson Sculpture Garden.

The museums offer exhibits, tours, and a variety of special events and presentations. Group tours and field trip programs are offered year round, and consist of tours of all five organizations within the University Museums umbrella. The website offers visitor information, information on current museum exhibits and collections, a calendar of events, and research information.

Goodnow House State Historic Site

Description

Visitors to the Goodnow House gain a glimpse into domestic life in the 1800s and learn the story of free-staters who wanted organized and equal education for the boys and girls of Kansas. Isaac Goodnow, one of Manhattan's founders, and his wife, Ellen, built this stone farmhouse, which still holds many original furnishings and documents, in the 1860s. Isaac started the Kansas State Teachers Association and established the college that became Kansas State University.

The site offers exhibits and tours.

Eureka Schoolhouse State Historic Site [VT]

Description

The Eureka Schoolhouse is over 200 years old and represents Vermont's oldest one-room schoolhouse. The schoolhouse was restored in 1968 and is currently owned and maintained by the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation and is operated as an area attraction by the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce.

The schoolhouse offers visitors a window into the history of Vermont. The schoolhouse is furnished with antique furniture and is open to visitors year-round for tours. The website offers a history of the schoolhouse, three historic photographs of the schoolhouse, and visitor information.

Mission Houses Museum [HI]

Description

Built between 1821 and 1841, the three mission houses that make up the Museum served as homes and workplaces for the first Christian missionaries to travel to the Hawaiian Islands. The Frame House (Ka Hale La'āu), was shipped around Cape Horn from Boston in 1820 and is the oldest wood house in Hawai'i. The Chamberlain House (Ka Hale Kamalani), built of coral blocks in 1831, was both a family home and storehouse for mission supplies. The third building, also of coral blocks, completed in 1841, today functions as the Printing Office (Ka Hale Pa'i). A working replica of the first printing press to be brought to Hawai'i is demonstrated there on a regular basis. In addition, the Museum grounds are the location of the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society (HMCS) library. Among the library's artifacts are the earliest books printed in the Hawaiian language. These books were used by missionaries and scholars alike in church and school.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, demonstrations, workshops, lectures, and other educational and recreational programs.

Conococheague Institute [PA]

Description

The Conococheague Institute serves as a center for developing and promoting an awareness of the natural history and cultural significance of the Conococheague region, and more broadly, the Appalachian frontier in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. The Institute has a special focus on exploring the history of the clash of cultures in the backcountry and the conflicts here from the French and Indian War through the American Revolution.

The location offers visitors a variety of special events and educational programs, exhibits that illustrate the lives of early Central Pennsylvania Settlers, and provides a collection of primary and secondary books and other materials which explore the history of the region and the French and Indian War. The site offers genealogical information, an events calendar, an online gift shop, and general information about the institute.

Historic Fourth Ward School Museum [NV]

Description

The Historic Fourth Ward School Museum is located in Comstock Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Permanent exhibit topics include area history, mining, the Fourth Ward School building, Virginia City Alumni, Mark Twain, and education in the 1870s.

The museum offers exhibits, guided tours, and a junior docent program. The website offers lesson plans.

Gaylordsville Historical Society [CT]

Description

The Gaylordsville Historical Society was first formed in 1967 as a reaction to the city's statement that it would be closing the Gaylordsville School. The school was the last one room schoolhouse operating in the state, and so a group of local citizens banded together in order to keep the school building from being demolished. Presently, the society continues to work to preserve and protect historical structures, resources, and artifacts relating to the history of Gaylordsville. The society operates the 1871 Brown's Forge, a blacksmith shop with working forge.

The society offers guided tours of Brown's Forge August Sunday afternoons. The site offers a history of Gaylordsville, a history of the historical society, visitor information, and an events calendar.

Samuel H. Cupples House [MO]

Description

The Samuel Cupples House is located on the campus of Saint Louis University. The house was purchased in the mid 1900s by Saint Louis University in order to serve as an administrative center for the university. Now, the house serves as a historic house museum, and offers tours to the public throughout the year.

The site offers historic information about the university, the home, and the Cupples family. In addition, the site offers an events calendar, information on current exhibits, a museum store, and an virtual tour.