The Florence Griswold Museum building was the site of one of the most renowned Impressionist art colonies in the United States. Founded in 1899, the Lyme Art Colony hosted Impressionist and Tonalist artists such as Edward Rook, Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalfe, and Henry Ward Ranger. The artists favored landscapes and plein air painting. The museum itself is housed within the 1817 Late Georgian mansion in which the artists boarded. The upper floor hosts exhibits while the lower maintains the appearance of the home in 1910. The site also includes additional exhibit space, an education center, the restored gardens, and William Chadwick's (1879-1962) studio.

The museum offers exhibits, period rooms, guided tours for groups, self-guided tours, student tours, student hands-on activities, school outreach programs, resource library access, painting opportunities, workshops, summer camps, gardens, lectures, educator workshops and tours, and boxed lunches. If students wish to order boxed lunches rather than bringing a bag lunch, advance notice is required. Outreach program options include art activities and lectures. The website offers the opportunity to watch a video about the colony, a teacher's guide, lesson plans, pre- and post-visit activity suggestions, and suggested reading lists.

The Hudson River Museum presents the history and art of the Hudson River area, New York. The museum includes a Victorian-era home, Glenview, which is set to period; art exhibition space; a planetarium; and simulations of the environments along the Hudson River. Artists represented in the collection include Samuel Colman (1832-1920).

The museum offers one-hour Glenview tours for students, one-hour exhibit tours for students, one-hour environmental programs for students, one-hour planetarium shows for students, workshops which can be added to any of the aforementioned student programs, professional development programs, and exhibits.

The Howard County Center of African American Culture presents local and national African American history. The site includes both period rooms depicting typical 19th-century African American residential settings in Howard County, Maryland and exhibits celebrating the inventions and artwork created by African Americans.

The center offers period rooms and exhibits.

The YMI Cultural Center presents African American culture and history. The center is located within the 1892 Tudor-style Young Men's Institute, constructed at the request of James Vanderbilt for the African American men who had built Vanderbilt's Biltmore House. The building held a drugstore, doctor's office, public library, funeral parlor, gym, kindergarten, and church services for the local African American population. Permanent exhibits showcase the history of the Vanderbilts and the YMI Cultural Center, as well as the drawings of artist Charles W. White, a noted Social Realist.

The center offers exhibts; a traveling exhibit of stamps depicting African Americans of historical note; and art workshops. The traveling exhibit is available to area schools. The website offers a virtual exhibit, An Unmarked Trail: Stories of African Americans in Buncombe County from 1850-1900.

The T.C. Steele State Historic Site preserves the home of American Impressionist and portraitist Theodore Clement Steele (1847-1926) and his wife Selma Neubacher Steele (1870-1945). As such, the site was once privy to visits from a wide range of U.S. artists. The grounds include the 1907 "House of the Singing Winds," two studios, a garage, guest cottages, and remote painting shacks to permit outdoor painting in a wide range of weather conditions.

The site offers guided building tours, a summer camp, educational programs which meet state standards, educational outreach programs, trails, gardens, and a nature preserve.

The Dorset Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Dorset, Vermont. To this end, the society operates the Bley House Museum. Exhibits address local artists, the Dorset marble industry, and Fenton stoneware, among other topics.

The society offers exhibits, research and genealogical library access, and research assistance.

The Taft Museum of Art is housed within the circa 1820 Palladian-style Federal Baum-Longworth-Taft House; and its collections include European paintings and decorative arts, American paintings, and Chinese porcelain. Major artists represented in the collection include Dutch Golden Age painter and etcher Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Dutch Golden Age portrait artist Frans Hals (circa 1580-1666), Spanish printmaker and painter Francisco Goya (1746-1828), English painter and landscape artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), English Grand Manner portrait artist Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), French Neoclassical painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), American painter James Whistler (1834-1903), and American portrait artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).

The museum offers exhibits, research library access, 45-minute to one-hour guided tours, self-guided tours, audio tours, children's workshops, a pre-professional high school arts education program, studio programs, lectures, educational programs which complement Ohio and Kentucky educational standards, summer camps, Scout programs, and a teacher resource center with materials for rental. Four weeks advance notice is required for school tours; and two weeks are needed for sensory tours tailored to individuals with hearing, visual, or developmental impairments. The website offers coloring pages.

The Watts Towers are a complex set of 17 separate sculptural pieces built on a residential lot in the community of Watts. Two of the towers rise to a height of nearly 100 feet. The sculptures are constructed from steel pipes and rods, wrapped with wire mesh; coated with mortar; and embedded with pieces of porcelain, tile, and glass. Using simple hand tools and cast off materials (broken glass, sea shells, generic pottery, and ceramic tile) Italian immigrant Simon Rodia spent 30 years (1921 to 1955) building a tribute to his adopted country and a monument to the spirit of individuals who make their dreams tangible. The Watts Towers are one of only nine works of folk art listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The site is one of only four US National Historic Landmarks in the city of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles City Cultural Affairs Department, through the Watts Towers Arts Center, provides diverse cultural enrichment programming through tours, lectures, changing exhibits, and studio workshops for both teachers and schoolchildren. Each year, thousands of people are attracted to the Towers' site for the Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz Festival and the Watt Towers Day of the Drum Festival.

The park offers exhibits, tours, lectures, workshops, and educational and recreational events.