Susquehanna State Park preserves the history of the Susquehanna River area—from the native Susquehannocks and circa 1622 settlement to modern day. Key sights include an operational 1794 grist mill; a portion of the 1836 Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal; two canal locks; a historic toll house; the 1804 Rock Run House; and the Steppingstone Museum. The Rock Run House was built as the home of John Carter, a partner in the operation of the Rock Run Mill; and today it contains period furnishings. The Steppingstone Museum is furnished to circa-1900 rural style, and demonstrates art and craft skills used between 1880 and 1920.

The site offers grist mill demonstrations, art and craft demonstrations, self-guided walking tours, mansion tours, museum tours, and period rooms.

The Pennington County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Pennington County, Minnesota. To this end, the society operates the Peder Engelstad Pioneer Village. The village depicts Minnesota pioneer life circa the early 19th century. The 19 structures include a museum, a schoolhouse, railroad depots, residences, a barber shop, and a blacksmith shop, among other sites. The village also contains historic gardens and farm machinery.

The village offers exhibits, period rooms, gardens, and guided tours. Guided tours are only available by appointment. The society website offers a substantial online database of photographs, maps, obituaries, cemetery records, and landowner records, among other items of archival and genealogical interest.

The Columbia Gorge Discovery Center presents the natural and social history of the Columbia River Gorge and Wasco County, Oregon. Topics addressed include the history of the land, settlement history and daily life in the area, the material goods carried by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their exploratory voyage across the country (1803-1806), and the Ice Age. The collections include more than 26,000 artifacts with particular strong showings of Native American baskets, padlocks, furniture, and farming equipment. The center is located on 50 acres of land.

The center offers exhibits, films, a children's discovery area, an interpretive trail, collections and research library access, an educator's resource center, an educational program on birds of prey, guided student tours ranging between 45 minutes and one hour in length, self-guided student tours, and traveling trunks. Reservations are required for class programs and tours. The website offers interactive activities and electronic field trips.

Old Sturbridge Village, which depicts New England life between 1790 and 1840, is one of the largest living history museums within the United States. Covering 200 acres, the site includes 59 historic buildings and three water-powered mills. Buildings range from residences and trade shops to a local law office. Animals on site include sheep, pigs, and heritage-breed turkeys. The museum collections include more than 60,000 artifacts.

The village offers orientation tours, period rooms, exhibits, costumed interpreters, demonstrations, hands-on history activities, educational programs, outreach programs, a children's summer camp, Scout programs, custom teacher workshops, picnic sites, food for purchase, and boxed lunches by advance order. Wheelchairs are available upon request, and a sign language interpreter can be present given at least two weeks advance notice. More than half of the structures allow for wheelchair entry. A guide listing accessible and partially accessible sites is available on the website. Reservations for teacher workshops must be made at least four weeks in advance. The website also offers a virtual tour; an extensive database of research, historic documents, and historic images; historic recipes; pre- and post-visit activity suggestions; curriculum plans; and children's activities.

The History Center of Olmstead County presents the history of Olmstead County, Minnesota. To this end, the center operates as a museum. The museum includes rooms devoted to the decorative arts; a hands-on children's cabin; and exhibits on topics which include IBM, St. Mary's Hospital, the 1883 Rochester tornado, and historical medicine. Artifact collections include textiles, military, decorative arts, Native American, agricultural and mechanical, and medical items. The center also operates the Mayowood Estate historic house museum. Erected in 1911 as the home of Dr. Charles H. Mayo, cofounder of the Mayo Clinic, Mayowood now contains period rooms.

The museum offers exhibits, educational programs, hands-on activities, museum tours, traveling trunks, and library access. Reservations are required for tours. The center also organizes baseball games, played in 1860s style. The Mayowood Estate offers period rooms and guided tours. The website offers virtual exhibits.

The Pender County Museum presents the history of Pender County, North Carolina. Collection highlights include a whiskey still, historical farming equipment, decorative arts pieces, World War II artifacts, and medical artifacts.

The museum offers exhibits, 41 oral history transcriptions from World War II veterans, and library access.

Coggeshall Farm is a 48-acre living history farm museum. The grounds include a circa 1790 farmhouse, a spring house, animal barns, fields, and herb gardens. The farm's animals include sheep, chickens, cats, a horse, donkeys, and goats. The museum primarily depicts late 18th-century life. The museum grounds have been worked by Europeans since the late 17th-century, and may very well have also been farmed by the Pokanoket.

The farm offers school tours, workshops, demonstrations,

The Montgomery County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Montgomery County, IA. To this end, the society operates a library, history center, and five historic structures. The 1853 and 1866 cabins, 1870 schoolhouse, and the general store and post office are furnished to period. The 1884 Nims barn presents information on agricultural history.

The society offers period rooms; exhibits on military history, local companies, agriculture, and the Masonic lodge; educational programs; a reference and archival collection available to the public at the History Center.

The Southampton Historical Museums and Research Center seeks to preserve and share the history of Southampton, New York. To this end, the center operates a number of historical properties, including a paint store; blacksmith shop; one-room schoolhouse; carriage barn; and the main building, a sea captain's home, dating to 1843. Topics covered include farming, whaling, and local history.

The center offers period rooms and exhibits.

The Farmer's Museum is an outdoor historical museum which presents the rural heritage of the U.S. Key features include an 1840s village, heritage gardens, and the Lippitt Farmstead. The farm site includes heritage breeds of sheep, turkeys, and cattle, as well as a farmhouse, barns, a granary, a hop house, a smokehouse, and a poultry house. An interactive 1910 county fair is on the grounds on a seasonal basis. Collections consist of over 23,000 artifacts including wallpaper, textiles, and a particularly strong showing of historical woodworking tools.

The museum offers period rooms, gardens, hands-on activities, demonstrations, historic skill workshops, lectures, educational children's programs, a children's interpretation program, and guided tours for groups. Two weeks advance notice is required for group tours. The website offers a museum blog.