The Museum has a range of permanent exhibits showcasing the historical heritage of the Macon County area from the 1830s to 1890s, with ever-changing exhibits highlighting different aspects of life in Decatur and Macon County throughout the years. The Prairie Village Complex includes an 1860s one-room schoolhouse and an 1850s log house, along with other period buildings and a 1922 railroad caboose.

The museum and village offer exhibits, tours, short films, research library access, and educational and recreational events.

The Old Courthouse Museum presents the history of Washington County, WI. The museum contains a research library, restored circuit courtroom, and two floors of exhibits. The Romanesque Revival structure itself was designed by architect Henry C. Koch, and completed in 1889.

The museum offers traditional and interactive exhibits, a period room, outreach presentations, traveling trunks, and a research library.

The Sandwich Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Sandwich, New Hampshire. To this end, the society operates the 1825 Lower Corner School, open to the public during special events; the 19th-century Quimby Barn, which houses a transportation museum; and the circa 1850 Elisha Marston House, home to the society headquarters and a local history museum. Society collections include historical everyday items previously used in Sandwich. Collection strengths include furnishings, tools, and textiles. Artistic highlights include works by Albert Gallatin Hoit (1809-1856), portrait and landscape artist; Fred G. Quimby (1863-1923); and E. Wood Perry (1831-1915).

The society offers a Junior Historical Society, a non-circulating reference library.

The Cokato Historical Society seeks to preserve both the social and the Swedish and Finnish cultural history of Cokato, Minnesota and the surrounding area. To this end, the society supports a local history museum. Collection highlights include a 1922 snowmobile.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, and research assistance. Tours are available by appointment. Please call ahead if you wish to see the snowmobile, as it is not on display on a daily basis. Payment is required for 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 Pennington County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Pennington County, Minnesota. To this end, the society operates the Peder Engelstad Pioneer Village. The village depicts Minnesota pioneer life circa the early 19th century. The 19 structures include a museum, a schoolhouse, railroad depots, residences, a barber shop, and a blacksmith shop, among other sites. The village also contains historic gardens and farm machinery.

The village offers exhibits, period rooms, gardens, and guided tours. Guided tours are only available by appointment. The society website offers a substantial online database of photographs, maps, obituaries, cemetery records, and landowner records, among other items of archival and genealogical interest.

The Hartwick Pines Logging Museum, located in a stand of virgin white pine, takes visitors back to the days of the 19th-century logging industry, through a visitors' center, logging camp buildings, and forest trails—one of which leads to the 300-year-old Monarch pine.

The museum offers exhibits, tours for school groups, and occasional 1860s-period baseball games.

Slater Mill is a museum complex dedicated to bringing one of the most exciting and significant periods of American history to life. Visitors to the site experience a time when an America of small farmers and craftsmen was poised to become the industrial leader of the world. In the Slater Mill itself, visitors are surrounded by vintage textile machinery bathed in the light of large windows. With expert commentary from costumed interpreters they can imagine the lives of the people—many of them children—who made the early mills come alive.

In the nearby Wilkinson Mill they can feel the throb of the great 16,000-pound mill wheel, a replica of the original wheel that harnessed the power of the Blackstone River to make the era's finest tools. Children get up close and personal with early production processes as they provide the power and operate miniature machinery in the Apprentice Alcove. In the Sylvanus Brown House they can look back to a time when spinning, weaving, cooking, and quilting were the stuff of everyday life.

The site offers a short film, exhibits, tours, demonstrations, workshops, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).

The Historic Burke Foundation Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Burke County, North Carolina. To this end, the society operates the Heritage Museum, 1812 McDowell House, and two historic cemeteries. The Heritage Museum, located within the circa 1835 Old Burke County Courthouse, contains exhibits on the courthouse, the court system, and other topics relevant to local history. The Federal-style McDowell House depicts 19th-century life. The Quaker Meadows Cemetery (in use 1767-1884) is the final resting place for nine families, including nine Revolutionary War soldiers.

The museum offers a 20-minute audiovisual presentation and exhibits. The McDowell House offers period rooms. The McDowell House requires appointments between September and March, and foundation permission is needed to enter the gated Quaker Meadows Cemetery.

The Stockton Springs Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Stockton Springs, Maine. To this end, the society operates a local history museum. The museum is located within the Colcord House, once home of Maine architect Joseph W. Thompson (1822-1891).

The society offers exhibits.