November 2010

The Railroad and Heritage Museum was founded in 1973 to collect, preserve and exhibit the history of the railroads and local history of Central Texas. The current home of the Museum is this beautifully restored depot. A current exhibit, The Communication Room, chronicles all aspects of historical railway communication. An operational telegraph exhibit is location along the north wall. On special occasions, retired operators demonstrate their skill by sending "orders" over the telegraph "line."

Red Hill houses the largest collection of Patrick Henry memorabilia in the world. A painting by Peter Frederick Rothermel, is the best-known piece in the Red Hill Museum and one of America's most famous historical paintings. In the painting, Patrick Henry delivers his famous "If this be treason, make the most of it!" speech, declaring his opposition to King George III's Stamp Act of 1765. A decade later, as revolutionary sentiments surged in America, Henry declared "Give me liberty or give me death!" to the Virginia Convention gathered at St. John's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia.

The Northwest Seaport's fleet includes the Arthur Foss, a tugboat from 1889, the Swiftsure, a lightship from 1904, the Twilight, a salmon troller from 1933, the Yakutat, a halibut schooner, and the Wawona, a Pacific schooner from 1897 that is one of two survivors of the once immense commercial sailing fleet in the Pacific Northwest.

The historical gallery of the Scurry County Museum features a chronological look at Scurry County and West Texas from the times of the nomadic Indians through the oil productions of today. Exhibits in the permanent gallery of the Museum trace the area's colorful past.

This 1857 Italian Villa house is best known as the Last Capitol of the Confederacy, but now operates as an art and history museum.

The Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History is located in the Sutherlin Mansion on Millionaires' Row in Danville, Virginia. The house has become well known as the temporary residence, April 3 - 10, 1865, of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. In this house, Davis authored his last official proclamation as president of the Confederacy. The government remained in Danville until receiving the news of Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 10. Largely because of events documented in this house during the Confederacy's final week, Danville has become known as the "Last Capital of the Confederacy."

Located in the historic Carnegie Library building, the Historical Society of Washington DC serves the Washington community through its library, publications, and exhibits.

With more than a century of history itself, The Historical Society of Washington, D.C. is a respected and valued city institution. Over the years, countless members, volunteers, donors and professional staff have created a wide range of educational programming, accumulated an impressive collection and developed a strong body of research.

Located in Brackenridge Park , on the banks of the San Antonio River , the Witte offers permanent exhibits that include dinosaur skeletons, cave drawings, wildlife dioramas, and even some live animals. Several historic homes have been reconstructed on the campus, which also features the very popular H-E-B Science Treehouse. Changing galleries include Texas artists, textiles and showcase exhibits, some locally produced and some traveling national exhibits.

The Tank Museum has the most extensive collection of International Tank & Cavalry artifacts in the world, dating from 1509 to the present-day. It's collection includes weapons, uniforms, and other military items pertaining to tanks and cavalry, dating from the 1500s to the present. The museum is run by the American Armoured Foundation.
 

This local history museum is housed in a former Masonic Temple dating from 1895. It contains exhibits pertaining to the African-American experience, Native Americans, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the Bedford Boys.

The museum focuses on the maritime and naval history of the United States. Its collection includes a number of PBR Mark-II gunboats, which suffered the highest casualty rates and were the most frequently decorated vessels in the Navy during the Vietnam War. An exhibit about the past 200 years of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as well as one on loan from the Smithsonian called “From Sea to Shining Sea: Charting America’s Coasts” that concerns itself with the history of American cartography, are currently on display on a temporary basis. Among the other exhibits are a display on Pacific American Fisheries, one of the world’s largest salmon canning operations that operated on Puget Sound between 1899 and 1965 and claimed global market dominance, an early iron cannon of unknown origin, a collection of anchors, and an on-site ship restoration operation.