Manassas Museum [VA]

Description

The Museum houses permanent and temporary historical exhibits interpreting Northern Virginia Piedmont history through artifacts, documents, videos, and images.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, research library access, educational programs, and recreational and educational events.

James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library [VA]

Description

The Museum's historic building houses an object collection of over 1,600 items, including decorative arts, personal items, costumes, and memorabilia, related to James Monroe. Additionally, the on-site archives houses over 10,000 documents, and the library holds over 3,000 volumes of rare and historic books.

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

American Civil War Center [VA]

Description

Visitors to the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar where can discover the Tredegar Iron Works, once the industrial heart of the Confederacy; explore the Center's flagship exhibit, "In the Cause of Liberty," in the restored 1861 Gun Foundry; learn about the people and events that impacted Tredegar and the Confederate Capital at the Richmond National Battlefield Visitor Center; walk the Tredegar site with a museum guide, hear stories from the home front, or learn the secrets of prison camp survival; and see history come alive as costumed interpreters explore recruitment, training, camp life, and battle experiences of the Civil War soldier.

The site offers exhibits, tours, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).

Winterthur [DE]

Description

Winterthur, an American country estate, is the former home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), an avid antiques collector and horticulturist. In the early 20th century, H. F. du Pont and his father, Henry Algernon du Pont, designed Winterthur in the spirit of 18th- and 19th-century European country houses. Visitors to Winterthur will rediscover America's heritage through its collections of antiques and Americana and venture out over the fields and farmland to learn about the workings of a great American country estate. They can also wander through the 60-acre naturalistic Winterthur Garden, while children will wonder at the Winterthur's famous fairy-tale children's garden, Enchanted Woods, and enjoy hands-on learning in the Touch-It Room.

The site offers research library access, tours, exhibits, classes and workshops, educational programs, and recreational and educational events.

Rice Couny Historical Society, Museum, and Alexander Faribault House [MN]

Description

The Society's Rice County Museum of History contains a collection of objects, images, and artifacts ranging from prehistory to the present day. The exhibits are variable, as the Society rotates its collection through its display space. Behind the museum, visitors may explore the Historical Village, including the Holy Innocents Episcopal Church, the 1850s Pleasant Valley School, the 1857 Volg Log Cabin, and the Harvest and Heritage Halls. The Society also maintains and operates the Alexander Faribault House, built in the Greek Revival style in 1853 by Alexander Faribault for a cost of $4,000.00. The Faribault family lived in the house for a few years, moving later to a large brick mansion on the bluffs overlooking the Straight River. The house was used as a civic center and as a private home. Today, the Faribault House displays pieces belonging to the Faribault family and other early settlers.

The museum offers a slide show, exhibits, tours, educational programs, and research library access; the Faribault House offers tours.

Museum of the Moving Image [NY]

Description

The Museum advances the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media. It does so by collecting, preserving, and providing access to moving-image related artifacts; screening significant films and other moving-image works; presenting exhibitions of artifacts, artworks, and interactive experiences; and offering educational and interpretive programs to students, teachers, and the general public.

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

Milwaukee Public Museum [WI]

Description

The Milwaukee Public Museum, one of the largest in the United States, is a museum of human and natural history providing a dynamic and stimulating environment for learning, with something to excite and challenge visitors with a diversity of interests. The Museum currently houses over six million specimens. Permanent exhibits are contained in three-and-a-half floors of exhibit area, with additional space for traveling and temporary exhibits. Visitors can tour the Museum's 150,000 square feet of exhibit space to visit Africa, Asia, Europe, the Arctic, South and Middle America, the Pacific Islands, and a Costa Rican rainforest. They can take a small step back in time to the turn-of-the-century streets of Old Milwaukee, a European village, or ancient Mediterranean civilizations.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, IMAX and planetarium shows, educational programs, research library access, and educational and recreational events.

First Division Museum [IL]

Description

The Museum preserves, interprets, and presents the history of the First Infantry Division in the context of American military history and affairs.

The museum offers exhibits, educational programs, lectures, research library access, and occasional recreational and educational events.

Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage [NJ]

Description

The Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage was created to remember and record Woodbine's past while also actively collecting the materials to preserve its continuing heritage. It is a destination for visitors and a local resource for the entire Woodbine community so that they may continue to use the Woodbine Brotherhood Synagogue building as a place to come together. Built by the early Woodbine colonists, the synagogue is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The sanctuary has been restored and is available for special worship services. The lower level, Brotherhood Hall, houses the museum's permanent and temporary exhibitions. Also included is a community sculpture, the Collective Memory Wall, where the Woodbine community has contributed personal memories of Woodbine.

The museum offers exhibits and occasional recreational and educational events.

Wyoming Territorial Prison

Description

Built in 1872, the Prison held some of the most notorious outlaws in the region, including Butch Cassidy. Visitors to the 190- cre facility can also enjoy the newly restored Warden's House and Horse Barn Exhibit Hall featuring rotating displays and a family-friendly scavenger hunt.

The site offers exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).