Nevada State Museum

Description

The Nevada State Museum presents Nevada history. Exhibit topics include the Carson City mint, geology, Native American life, and Columbian mammoths.
Collection highlights include a 19th-century coin press, mammoth fossils, slot machines by designer Charles August Fey, the USS Nevada silver service, and a 1902 Basque sheepherder's wagon. The museum includes the Marjorie Russell Clothing and Textile Research Center, which preserves more than 10,000 artifacts.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, 90-minute guided hands-on student tours, and unguided student tours. Areas of emphasis available for student tours are geology, Native American culture, Nevada history, and botany and zoology. Appointments are required for all tours. The textile research center offers programs on costume history, as well as research library access. Appointments are required for library access. The website offers 14 virtual exhibits.

Big Horn County Historical Society and Museum [MT]

Description

The Big Horn County Historical Society and Museum seeks to preserve and protect the history of Big Horn County, MT. To this end, the society operates a museum. The museum includes 23 historic structures on 22-acres of land, previously used as a vegetable farm. The farmhouse and barn are original to the location, while the remaining 21 structures have been transported to the site from within Big Horn County. Three buildings house exhibits, which include horse-drawn vehicles, tractors, early automobiles, and farm machinery.

The society offers exhibits, self-guided tours, and guided tours.

The Octagon Museum: The Museum of the American Architectural Foundation [DC]

Description

The Octagon Museum, the oldest U.S. museum of art and design, permits the American Architectural Foundation to share an understanding of and interest in architecture with the general public. The Federal period museum structure was built between 1799 and 1801. However, today, the interior and exterior reflect the period between 1817 and 1828. Collections include more than 100,000 original architectural drawings, 760 decorative arts artifacts, and over 12,000 archaeological items and architectural fragments found during restoration.

The museum offers exhibits and tours. Tours are unavailable during architectural restoration.

Nevada Historical Society

Description

The Nevada Historical Society museum collections house over 15,000 artifacts, including mining and ranching equipment, artwork, clothing, and items related to the state's gambling industry. The permanent exhibition on Nevada history illustrates the lives of the earliest inhabitants of the Great Basin, the desert stretches of the Immigrant Trail, the Comstock era, the effects of Nevada's liberal marriage and divorce laws, and the rise of the gambling industry. The Nevada Historical Society's library, photograph, and manuscript collections constitute the largest and most complete repository of materials related to the history of Nevada and the Great Basin. Materials available to the public include books, newspapers and periodicals, print files, maps, government documents, subject files, ephemera, manuscript collections, and over 500,000 photographs.

The museum offers exhibits, guided and self–guided tours, hands-on activities, in–classroom presentations on a variety of subjects, a documentary presentation and discussion series, screenings of movies which are set in Nevada, and a research library. The website offers virtual exhibits, children's activities, and a comprehensive PDF outlining available teacher resources.

Northport Historical Society and Museum [NY]

Description

The Northport Historical Society and Museum preserves and promotes the history of Northport, New York, and the surrounding area. The museum serves as a local history museum, and is open year-round.

The society and museum offers hour-long educational programs for K–5 and a variety of exhibits that showcase the history of Northport. The website offers visitor information and information regarding upcoming events and programs.

Arlington Historical Museum [VA]

Description

The Arlington Historical Museum is located in the historic Hume School Building, which was built in 1891 and became the Arlington Historical Museum in the early 1960s. The site is located close to the Pentagon and Crystal City metro stations. The museum is focused on preserving and showcasing the history of Arlington and Arlington County. Visitors can view a wide variety of historic photographs and pictures, as well as marvel at the beautiful turn-of-the-century architecture of the Hume Schoolhouse.

The site offers visitor information about the museum. In addition, the site is part of the Arlington Historical Society website, and thus provides information on all resources offered by the historical society, including historic house museums and publications.