Florida Holocaust Museum

Description

The Museum honors the memory of millions of innocent men, women, and children who suffered or died in the Holocaust. It is dedicated to teaching members of all races and cultures to recognize the inherent worth and dignity of human life in order to prevent future genocides.

The museum offers exhibits, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events.

Hill-Stead Museum [CT]

Description

Renowned French Impressionist paintings—four by Claude Monet, three by Edgar Dega—and notable works by Édouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, and James McNeill Whistler are highlights of the Museum's in situ exhibition. The 152-acre property features an Arts and Crafts carriage barn and theater, stone garages, woodland trails, a pond and dairy complex, and a Sunken Garden designed by Beatrix Farrand c. 1920.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, research library access, educational programs, and recreational and educational events.

Mattatuck Museum Arts and History Center [CT]

Description

The Museum provides professional scholarship, preservation, and historical programming about Mattatuck heritage, stimulates interest in the fine and decorative arts of Connecticut by showcasing their highest quality and expression, and encourages an appreciation of the humanities and the fine arts through its collections, exhibits, and programs. It houses permanent local history and art exhibits.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, reference library access, educational programs, and recreational and educational events.

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center [CT]

Description

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center preserves and interprets Stowe's Hartford home and the Center's historic collections, promotes vibrant discussion of her life and work, and inspires commitment to social justice and positive change. A visit to the Center includes the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, a Victorian Gothic Revival home (1871) which includes Victorian-style gardens; the Katharine Seymour Day House (1884), a mansion adjacent to the Stowe House; and the Stowe Visitor Center (1873), with changing exhibitions.

The center offers exhibits, tours, reference library access, and occasional recreational and educational events.

Western Museum of Mining and Industry [CO]

Description

The Museum highlights the technology and technological history of metal mining and metallurgy, as well as the social history of the American Mining West. With a collection of mining equipment and artifacts, visitors can experience America's rich mining history through mining equipment such as steam engines, drills, and pumps in actual operation; social history vignettes illustrating historic home life in mining communities; hands-on experiences including panning for gold and a kids' change-station; scale models of equipment and mines; and a mine recreation offering a glimpse into a working underground, as well as changing exhibits.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, research library access, educational programs, and recreational and educational events.

Littleton Historical Museum [CO]

Description

The Museum serves as the primary repository for the history, art, and culture of Littleton. It consists of two living history farms (one from the 1860s and one from the 1890s), a small lake, a collections center, and a main exhibition and administration building. Interpreters work the farm sites, run the blacksmith shop, and teach in the schoolhouse, offering a "living history" perspective to the museum visitor.

The museum offers exhibits, research library access, and recreational and educational events (including living history events).

Fort Morgan Museum [CO]

Description

The Museum tells the story of Fort Morgan and Morgan County through permanent and temporary exhibits. It also takes advantage of traveling exhibits from other institutions throughout the United States.

The museum offers exhibits, reference library access, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events.

Sanchez Adobe [CA]

Description

The Sanchez Adobe was constructed between 1842 and 1846 by Francisco Sanchez, owner of Rancho San Pedro and one-time alcalde of San Francisco. Sanchez was a leader of Mexican California who led volunteers against United States forces at the Battle of Santa Clara. Today, the site shows the different periods of local history. Visitors can take a walk on the grounds and see native plants—the Ohlone village of Pruristac was located on the site. They can view the location of the original Spanish farm buildings; explore the Sanchez family's adobe home; and discover what items were uncovered during archaeological digs, including items from the adobe's time as a hotel and speakeasy.

The site offers exhibits and educational programs.

Kern County Museum

Description

The Museum features 56 historic exhibits, many in relocated structures; an award-winning hands-on oil exhibition, Black Gold: The Oil Experience; and the Lori Brock Children's Discovery Center for youth eight and under. In addition, the museum hosts temporary exhibitions and special events.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, research library access, educational programs, and educational and recreational events (including living history events).