Durham Museum [NE]

Description

Housed in Omaha's Union Station, the Durham Museum preserve and interprets local and Nebraska history.

The museum offers exhibits, a working soda fountain, tours and programs for school groups, summer camps, programs for homeschoolers, lectures, research library access, and other recreational and educational events.

Museum of the Rockies [MT]

Description

The Museum of the Rockies, according to its website, "houses one of the world’s largest collections of dinosaurs, permanent exhibits on Western history and American Indians, several changing exhibits each year, and a planetarium." During the summer months, it also operates the Living History Farm, which recreates life in the 1890s.

The museum offers exhibits, planetarium shows, classes, tours for school groups, traveling trunks for rent, professional development opportunities for educators, and other recreational and educational events.

Kansas City Museum [MO]

Description

The Kansas City Museum allows visitors to explore the history of Kansas City, Missouri, form the mid-19th century to the present day.

The museum offers exhibits, outreach presentations, workshops, lectures, film screenings, and other recreational and educational events.

Union Station [MO]

Description

Union Station, built in 1814, today has been restored to house, among other attractions, traveling exhibits, presentations and shows, and a permanent rail exhibit.

The Station offers exhibits, planetarium shows, performances, science demonstrations, big-screen presentations, tours for school groups, and home school days.

Saginaw Art Museum [MI]

Description

The Saginaw Art Museum invites the public to view and learn about the visual arts.

The museum offers exhibits, guided tours for school groups, several grant-based on-site and in-school arts education programs, outreach presentations, research library access, classes, and other recreational and educational events.

Michigan State University Museum

Description

The Michigan State University Museum, according to its website, is "Michigan's largest public museum of natural history and culture."

The museum offers exhibits, 4-H programs, self-guided tours for school groups, summer camps, teaching materials for loan, virtual field trips, and other educational and recreational events.

Arab American Museum [MI]

Description

The Arab American Museum, according to its website, "is the first museum in the world devoted to Arab American history and culture."

The museum offers exhibits, programs and guided tours for school groups, a student photography program, research library access, and occasional recreational and educational events.