Japanese American National Museum [CA]

Description

The museum shares the experience of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Through its comprehensive collection of Japanese American objects, images, and documents, as well as multifaceted exhibitions, educational programs, documentaries, and publications, the National Museum shares the Japanese American story with a national and international audience.

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

Sheldon Museum and Cultural Center [AK]

Description

The museum collects, preserves, and interprets through historic artifacts and art the unique blending of diverse cultures within the Chilkat Valley. The Sheldon Museum's presentation of artifacts, clan trust property, and memorabilia includes permanent, temporary, and traveling exhibits.

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

Navy Museum [DC]

Description

The Museum presents an overview of U.S. naval history. Permanent and temporary exhibitions commemorate the Navy's wartime heroes and battles as well as its peacetime contributions in exploration, diplomacy, space flight, navigation, and humanitarian service.

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

DAR Museum

Description

The DAR Museum showcases the furnishings and decorative arts of pre-industrial America with permanent and changing exhibitions in two galleries. Thirty-one Period Rooms depict regional or period American interiors from the 17th to the early 20th century.

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

Winston Churchill Memorial and Library [MO]

Description

The Memorial is housed within the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, a 12th-century church from the middle of London, redesigned by Sir Christopher Wren in 1677, that was relocated to Fulton. The undercroft of this historic Wren church is a museum filled with a treasury of artifacts and information relating to the life and times of Sir Winston Churchill.

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

Manassas Museum [VA]

Description

The Museum houses permanent and temporary historical exhibits interpreting Northern Virginia Piedmont history through artifacts, documents, videos, and images.

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

American Civil War Center [VA]

Description

Visitors to the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar where can discover the Tredegar Iron Works, once the industrial heart of the Confederacy; explore the Center's flagship exhibit, "In the Cause of Liberty," in the restored 1861 Gun Foundry; learn about the people and events that impacted Tredegar and the Confederate Capital at the Richmond National Battlefield Visitor Center; walk the Tredegar site with a museum guide, hear stories from the home front, or learn the secrets of prison camp survival; and see history come alive as costumed interpreters explore recruitment, training, camp life, and battle experiences of the Civil War soldier.

The site offers exhibits, tours, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).

Winterthur [DE]

Description

Winterthur, an American country estate, is the former home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), an avid antiques collector and horticulturist. In the early 20th century, H. F. du Pont and his father, Henry Algernon du Pont, designed Winterthur in the spirit of 18th- and 19th-century European country houses. Visitors to Winterthur will rediscover America's heritage through its collections of antiques and Americana and venture out over the fields and farmland to learn about the workings of a great American country estate. They can also wander through the 60-acre naturalistic Winterthur Garden, while children will wonder at the Winterthur's famous fairy-tale children's garden, Enchanted Woods, and enjoy hands-on learning in the Touch-It Room.

The site offers research library access, tours, exhibits, classes and workshops, educational programs, and recreational and educational events.