The Long Beach Firefighters Museum presents the history of firefighting. Collections include historic fire engines and other vehicles dating to the 1920s and onward, breathing apparatus, and firefighting hats. The museum is located within a 1925 fire station.
The website offers historic photographs.
The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame honors courageous and independent women of America's western frontier, mid-19th century through present. Interactive exhibits include the opportunity to learn to saddle a full-scale pony model. Select other exhibits address arena sports, rodeo fashion, bronc riding, rodeo evolution, oral histories, ranching, cowgirl equipment, and cowgirls in dime novels and on the screen. The museum exterior features artworks by sculptor Mehl Lawson and painter Richard Haas.
The museum offers an 8-minute introductory film, other thematic films, interactive and traditional exhibits, interactive guided group tours, outreach speakers for students and adults, Western lifestyle workshops and courses, school tours, 45-minute distance learning programs for students, a traveling trunk, educator workshops, and research library access. Group tours must include 15 or more visitors, and be scheduled at least two weeks in advance. Library access is by appointment only. Wheelchairs are available for use on site. The website offers activity suggestions for use in the classroom.
The 1969 Hawai'i State Capitol building houses the state legislature. The columns, curves, and openness of the structure evoke the state's volcanoes, palm trees, and open government, respectively.
The capitol offers tours. Reservations are required for large groups.
The Brownville Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Brownville, NE and its people. To this end, the society operates the Captain Bailey House and Carson House. The Captain Bailey House, erected prior to 1877, was once home to a Civil War Captain. It now houses a museum of local history. The Carson House was built by the founder of Brownville prior to 1864, and contains many furnishings original to the site.
The society offers exhibits and period rooms. Both museums are open mid-May through October.
The Museum at Warms Springs is devoted to exhibiting the history of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation, a Native American reservation in Oregon. The Museum rotates its exhibits once a year but focuses on showcasing the culture of the tribes, including tribal song and language, craftsmanship, and daily life.
School groups are welcome to tour the museum's gallery and its outdoor portion of the museum containing information on the museum's traditional architecture.
The Placer County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Placer County, CA. To this end, the society operates a restored classroom, which depicts education circa 1900. A variety of local history displays, such as Native American artifacts and early encyclopedias, can be found within the room.
The society offers classroom tours. Reservations are required.
The Stevens-Crawford Heritage House is a historic house museum which depicts the lives of the Stevens and Crawford families in Oregon circa 1908. These two families were instrumental to area settlement and politics.
The house offers period rooms.
The Getty Center presents artworks with dates of origin ranging the Medieval period to present day. Collections include manuscripts, drawings, paintings, photographs, decorative arts, and sculpture. Members of nearly all of these categories are solely European in origin at the Getty Center. However, select photographs were produced in the United States. The center's research library contains more than 900,000 volumes.
The center offers a 10-minute orientation video, exhibits, gardens, guided collection highlight tours, guided garden tours, guided exhibit tours, guided focus tours, guided architecture tours, audio tours, self-guided sculpture garden tours, self-guided student tours, guided student architecture and garden tours, interactive guided lessons for students, a family room, research library access, a teacher resource center, a variety of teacher workshops and institutes, a restaurant, two cafes, a picnic area, and coffee carts. Appointments are recommended for research library use. Teachers may reserve audio guides for their students. Strollers and wheelchairs are available for use on site. The website offers the 10-minute orientation video, a collections database, a guide to creating lessons which focus on the arts, more than 200 searchable lesson plans, online games, a virtual world for children, and an educator listserv.
The Rosemount Museum is an 1893 Richardsonian Romanesque mansion largely furnished with pieces original to the site. The first owner, John A. Thatcher, co-founded the First National Bank of Pueblo.
The museum offers period rooms, tours, and a restaurant. The site is closed every January for routine maintenance.
The Dilue Rose Harris House was home to one of the few female writers living in colonial Texas during the 19th century. Ms. Harris' memoirs have given historians valuable insight into the lives of early Texas settlers.
Group tours and special events only are offered.