The Gettysburg Fire Department Museum is part of the Gettysburg Fire Department, and is operated by members of the department who serve on the museum committee. These volunteers work to preserve the rich history of Gettysburg's fire service and maintain the collection for generations to come.
The museum offers exhibits and tours.
The Society's Museum presents displays exploring the history of the town of Vestal and the surrounding area.
The society offers occasional recreational and educational events; the museum offers exhibits.
Containing thousands of relics, the Meredith Havens Fire Museum is the largest display of its kind in the local area.
The museum offers exhibits and tours.
Ferrum College's Blue Ridge Institute & Museum showcases the heritage and folkways of the Blue Ridge Mountains and western Virginia. Through rotating gallery exhibitions, engaging hands-on activities, and an 1800 living-history farm museum, students explore not just the past but also folk traditions in modern form. Tailored to the teacher’s specific needs, BRI school-group offerings include farm life tours with games and crafts, cornbread tours with hands-on open hearth cooking, Jack Tales tours with live theater, and Day on the Farm tours with costumed students cooking, driving oxen, blacksmithing, and gardening. BRI tours meet a variety of Virginia Standards of Learning at all K-12 grade levels. Outreach classroom visits by BRI museum interpreters are available. The BRI also offers a wealth of online resources for educators including online exhibitions and nearly 5,000 musical performances and photographs.
The Museum displays artifacts related to the history of the local area and the Harmonists that established the community.
The museum offers exhibits and occasional recreational and educational events.
The Association maintains the Oklahoma Heritage Museum, which provides visitors with the opportunity to experience Oklahoma's history through innovative, interactive exhibitory. Visitors meet both famous and everyday Oklahomans whose lives have changed history, and the candid nature of the exhibitory allows visitors a unique look into the lives of Oklahomans like Reba McEntire, Wiley Post, and Mat Hoffman. The faces, voices, and spirit of Oklahomans from every walk of life that inhabit the Museum create an experience unlike any other in the nation.
The museum offers exhibits and tours.
The Museum, housed in a 1926 red-brick firehouse, showcases the Orlando Fire Department's history since its 1885 inception.
The museum offers exhibits.
The main Museum showcases exhibits on local natural and cultural history. The Hackley and Hume Historic Site preserves the homes of Muskegon's most famous lumber baron, Charles H. Hackley, and his business partner, Thomas Hume. The site envelops the visitor in a unique living space, bringing late 19th-century craftsmanship to life. The Fire Barn Museum serves as a living memorial to the brave men and women who have served as Muskegon County firefighters and exhibits firefighting equipment. The Scolnik House recreates the lifestyle of a Depression-era family.
The museum offers exhibits, educational programs, research library access, and occasional recreational and educational events; the Hackley and Hume Historic Site offers tours; the Fire Barn Museum offers exhibits; the Scolnik House offers tours.
Historic Richmond Town is New York City's living history village and museum complex. Visitors can explore the diversity of the American experience, especially that of Staten Island and its neighboring communities, from the colonial period to the present. The village area occupies 25 acres of a 100-acre site with about 15 restored buildings, including homes and commercial and civic buildings, as well as a museum.
The site offers exhibits, tours, demonstrations, educational programs, workshops, and recreational and educational events (including living history events).
One of the museum's first donated pieces was the famous Squad 51 from the hit television show Emergency! Since then, the collection has grown from a dozen or so antique fire engines to more than 40 dating back to the 1860s. Additionally, uniforms, badges, helmets, photographs, and many other artifacts are being resurrected and preserved as lucent examples of the County fire service.
The museum offers exhibits, but is only open to the public on a few days over the course of the year.