Mansfield Historical Society [TX]

Description

The Mansfield Historical Society collects, preserves, and shares genealogical, biographical, and historical data about the Mansfield, Texas community and its residents. The society operates a museum, housed in a 1899 building previously used as a doctor's office and by the Knights of Pythias.

The society offers guided museum tours and online cemetery and Civil War veteran databases.

North Carolina Maritime Museum

Description

The North Carolina Maritime Museum documents, preserves, and researches the maritime history of coastal North Carolina. All of the museum's programs and exhibits, both general and specialized, interpret the state's cultural maritime history and offer a larger national perspective on coastal environment and barrier island ecology. The museum holdings include more than 15,000 cultural artifacts and natural history specimens, some 2,000 photographs and negatives, and 1,000 flat documents. The material culture collection of more than 2,000 artifacts includes uniforms of the U.S. Lifesaving Service and U.S. Coast Guard, lifesaving gear and ephemera, fishing gear, decoys, boat models and half-hulls, a Fresnel lens, 200 woodworking tools, nets, sea chests, and maritime paintings and prints. The small craft collection includes 37 historic indigenous boats (including a rare Civil War-era split-log canoe), over 100 models and half-models, 24 outboard engines, and 60 sextants, compasses, telescopes, and plotting instruments that document coastal navigation.

The museum offers teacher workshops, educational programs delivered in-classroom and in conjunction with curricula, a summer science program which includes maritime history, and exhibits.

Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico

Description

Housed in a 1912 cattle rancher's home, the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico offers a regional history museum. Many of the original furnishings still fill the rooms, and the prairie style house contains a fully recreated turn-of-the-century kitchen. Artifacts of note include an Edison Amberola phonograph and a buggy foot warmer, and exhibits include information on famous and infamous regional figures. The archives, located next door to the museum, contain over 11,000 photographs, thousands of books and manuscripts, obituaries, newspaper articles dating back to the early 1900's, and other Pecos Valley memorabilia.

The society offers museum exhibits, archival access, and a self-guided historic district tour.

Manlius Historical Society [NY]

Description

The Manlius Historical Society aims to preserve and heighten awareness of the history of the town of Manlius, New York. To this end, the society maintains a museum. The Manlius Historical Museum has several permanent displays, including a replica schoolroom and general store. Attached to the museum is an authentic working Blacksmith Shop and an authentic (non-working) Outhouse. The Cheney House Research Center and Library contains archives and genealogy files.

The society offers archival access and museum exhibits.

Washington State Capital Museum and Outreach Center

Description

The Washington State Capital Museum and Outreach Center is located in the historic Lord Mansion (built 1923 as a Spanish Colonial style villa), and is dedicated to preserving and interpreting the history and culture of Washington. Topics covered include regional Native American history and Olympia as Washington's capital. The Delbert McBride Ethnobotanical Garden, located on the grounds of the museum, displays a selection of Northwest flowers, shrubs, and trees that have been used for food, tools, and medicine by the Native American tribes in Western Washington.

The museum offers exhibits, a garden, lecture series, guided tours, exhibit enrichment classes taught by professional artists and historians, and a traveling trunk.

Lawndale Historical Society [NC]

Description

The Lawndale Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Lawndale, North Carolina. To this end, the society operates a museum on the grounds of the old Piedmont School.

The museum offers exhibits and musical programs. The website offers galleries of historic photographs, as well as oral history audio clips and written summaries.

Tillamook Air Museum [OR]

Description

The Tillamook Air Museum, housed in a WWII blimp hangar, is one of the top five privately owned aircraft collections in the United States. Collection highlights include over 30 war planes—a P–38 Lightning, F4U–Corsair, P51–Mustang, PBY Catalina, and SBD Dauntless dive bomber—pieces of the Hindenburg, and a WWII Luftwaffe flight jacket.

The museum offers exhibits, a jet simulator, and a cafe.

Peabody Historical Society and Museums

Description

The Peabody Historical Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving Peabody's rich history and heritage. Its headquarters, the General Gideon Foster House, has become a museum, housing most of the Society's many collections. Each room of the house features displays relating to Peabody's historic past. It is also the site of the Society's research library. Each room of the house features displays relating to Peabody's historic past. The Society also maintains the Peabody Fire Museum; housed in an old fire station, it displays firefighting artifacts and equipment on its first floor.

The museums offer exhibits and tours; the society offers lectures and occasional educational and recreational events.

Historical Society of Old Newbury [MA]

Description

The Historical Society of Old Newbury seeks to preserve and share the history of Newbury, Massachusetts, including Newburyport, West Newbury, Byfield, and Plum Island. To this end, the society operates the Cushing House Museum & Garden, which houses the society's collections. Example artifacts include four Chinese coastal Hong paintings; a 17th–century Dutch cradle; local furnishings; silver; needlework; fans; hatboxes; 19th–century toys; clocks; and a painting by Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), an American society portrait artist.

The society offers exhibits, museum tours, a research library and research assistance.