Elizabeth Township Historical Society and Coates House [PA]

Description

The Elizabeth Township Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of the communities within a 35-mile radius of Elizabeth Township, PA. The society operates and maintains two cemeteries and the Coates House, which contains the society's administrative offices, a museum, and the Golda B. Abraham Memorial Library.

The society offers exhibits and research assistance. Research assistance requires payment.

Minnesota Historical Society

Description

The Minnesota Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Minnesota. To this end, the society operates a history center and 26 historical sites located throughout the state. The Minnesota History Center collections include more than 230,000 artifacts, including a collection of Ojibwa pieces; 6,000 works of art; and 53,000 cubic feet of government records, among other items.

The Minnesota History Center offers a 30-minute introductory film, exhibits, interactive field trip programs, library access, and two lunch sites—one indoor and one outdoor. Reservations must be made at least two weeks in advance for field trip programs and/or use of the indoor dining area. Lunches can be ordered ahead from the museum restaurant. The center can arrange for sign language interpreters and wheelchair availability. The society also offers outreach presentations given by costumed interpreters and continuing education workshops for teachers.

The website offers blogs on selected artifacts, local historical organizations, and the archives; a forum for historical researchers; video podcasts; historical images; lesson plans on Minnesota and the Holocaust; and a Minnesota history curriculum available for purchase.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum

Description

The Museum tells the stories of 97 Orchard Street. Built on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1863, this tenement apartment building was home to nearly 7,000 working class immigrants. They faced challenges people understand today: making a new life, working for a better future, starting a family with limited means. In recognizing the importance of this seemingly ordinary building, the Tenement Museum has reimagined the role that museums can play in modern lives.

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

Sandy, Oregon Historical Society and Sandy Area Historical Museum [OR]

Description

The Sandy, Oregon Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Sandy, Boring, and Estacada, Oregon and the Greater Mount Hood area. To this end, the society operates the Sandy Area Historical Museum. Historically, logging led Sandy, Oregon's commercial ventures. Travelers on the Oregon Trail also often stopped at Sandy to recuperate before continuing their long voyage.

The museum offers exhibits.

Oakland Museum [OR]

Description

Oakland Museum is a small, volunteer-run town museum devoted to the history of Oakland, Oregon. Remodeled in 2004, the museum offers six new exhibits with interpretive panels added. Topics include the railroad, bank, pharmacy, doctor's office and a parlor.

Free self-guided tours are available but no educational programming is offered.

Gustine Historical Society [CA]

Description

From the society website: "The Gustine Historical Society seeks to uncover, preserve and disseminate knowledge about the history of Gustine and the "West Side" of California." The society runs a local history museum as well as a history center, which is research focused.

The society offers research resources and self-guided tours of the museum. The website offers a history of Gustine, visitor information, and an extensive photo gallery.

Dorothy G. Page Museum and Historic Town Site [AK]

Description

The Dorothy G. Page Museum presents the history of the Wasilla, Knik, and Willow Creek areas, Alaska. Exhibit topics include mining; the Knik Trading Co.; the postal system; the Den'iana Athabascans, the local Native American population; and Joe Reddington Sr. and Dorothy G. Page, founders of the Iditarod. Eight historic structures display the 1917 beginnings of Wasilla.

The museum offers exhibits and tours. Reservations are required for tours.

History Center of Olmsted County and Mayowood Estate [MN]

Description

The History Center of Olmstead County presents the history of Olmstead County, Minnesota. To this end, the center operates as a museum. The museum includes rooms devoted to the decorative arts; a hands-on children's cabin; and exhibits on topics which include IBM, St. Mary's Hospital, the 1883 Rochester tornado, and historical medicine. Artifact collections include textiles, military, decorative arts, Native American, agricultural and mechanical, and medical items. The center also operates the Mayowood Estate historic house museum. Erected in 1911 as the home of Dr. Charles H. Mayo, cofounder of the Mayo Clinic, Mayowood now contains period rooms.

The museum offers exhibits, educational programs, hands-on activities, museum tours, traveling trunks, and library access. Reservations are required for tours. The center also organizes baseball games, played in 1860s style. The Mayowood Estate offers period rooms and guided tours. The website offers virtual exhibits.