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Upper West Side · New York, NY
A landmark institution presenting the natural world and human cultures across 45 permanent halls, plus the Rose Center for Earth and Space and the Gilder Center.
Pittsburgh, PA
One of the top natural history museums in the U.S., renowned for its dinosaurs in their real environments.
New Haven, CT
One of the oldest, largest and most productive university natural history museums in the world.
Brewster, MA
Natural science museum with trails through marsh, beach and woodland habitats.
Cambridge, MA
Public face of three Harvard research museums, home of the Glass Flowers.
Logan Square · Philadelphia, PA
The oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas.
Elizabethtown, NY
Essex County Historical Society museum in the 1869 Elizabethtown School interpreting Adirondack history.
Albany, NY
One of the oldest museums in the country, dedicated to the history and art of the Upper Hudson Valley region.
Lowell, MA
Successor collection of the ATHM interpreting American textile industry through UMass Lowell.
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn · New York, NY
A hub for exploring Brooklyn's past through exhibitions, archives, and public programs.
Hartford, CT
The state's oldest museum, exploring Connecticut's history and culture (formerly the Connecticut Historical Society).
Lancaster, PA
Regional history museum and library including President James Buchanan's Wheatland.
Boston, MA
Preserves and interprets African American history in Massachusetts through the Black Heritage Trail sites.
Bethlehem, PA
Smithsonian affiliate on the Bethlehem Steel campus telling the story of American industrial innovation.
Downtown · Baltimore, MD
The Smithsonian-affiliated museum documenting the art, history, and culture of African Americans in Maryland from the 1600s to today.
Pittsburgh, PA
Smithsonian-affiliated museum interpreting 250 years of Western Pennsylvania history and sports.
Old City · Philadelphia, PA
The only museum in the nation dedicated exclusively to exploring and interpreting the American Jewish experience.
Rockville, MD
1815 Federal-era house museum operated by Montgomery History interpreting antebellum Rockville.
Catonsville, MD
Historic site and museum on the farm of Benjamin Banneker, mathematician and free Black almanac author.
Glen Echo, MD
Home of American Red Cross founder Clara Barton, preserved as a National Historic Site.
Fairmount · Philadelphia, PA
Once the most famous and expensive prison in the world, now a preserved ruin and museum.
Gettysburg, PA
Farm and home of President Dwight D. and Mamie Eisenhower adjacent to the Gettysburg battlefield.
Fall River, MA
History museum in an 1843 granite mansion with the largest collection of Lizzie Borden artifacts.
Auburn, NY
Preserves Harriet Tubman's residence, home for the aged, and the AME Zion Church she helped build.
Bethlehem, PA
Cluster of 18th- and 19th-century Moravian industrial and domestic sites, a National Historic Landmark District.
Richmondtown, Staten Island · New York, NY
A living history town and museum complex illustrating three centuries of Staten Island life.
Inner Harbor · Baltimore, MD
A floating museum of four historic vessels — USS Constellation, USS Torsk, USCGC Taney, and Lightship Chesapeake — plus the Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse.
Lake Placid, NY
Home and burial place of abolitionist John Brown, a National Historic Landmark.
Lowell, MA
National park telling the story of America's Industrial Revolution through Lowell's textile mills.
Nazareth, PA
Museum of the American Moravian settlement in the 1740 Whitefield House.
Upper West Side · New York, NY
New York's first museum, founded in 1804, exploring 400 years of American history through the lens of New York.
Boston, MA
Boston's oldest surviving church building, famed for the 1775 "one if by land, two if by sea" signal.
Flushing, Queens · New York, NY
Housed in the historic Kingsland Homestead, dedicated to the history of Queens.
Nassau County · Oyster Bay, NY
The home of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, from 1885 until his death in 1919.
Salem, MA
First National Historic Site in the National Park System, preserving Salem's maritime heritage.
Scranton, PA
National park unit preserving the history of steam railroading in America.
Gramercy, Manhattan · New York, NY
A reconstruction of the brownstone where President Theodore Roosevelt was born in 1858.
Buffalo, NY
Wilcox Mansion where Roosevelt was sworn in as president in 1901 after McKinley's assassination.
King of Prussia, PA
Site of the 1777–78 Continental Army winter encampment with museum, monuments and reconstructed cabins.
Seneca County · Seneca Falls, NY
Preserves sites associated with the 1848 First Women's Rights Convention and the movement it launched.
Pittsfield, MA
Multidisciplinary art, natural science and history museum with an aquarium and Little Cinema.
Greenwich, CT
A community-based, world-class institution offering exhibitions and programs in art and science.
Scranton, PA
Natural history, science and art museum in Scranton's Nay Aug Park since 1908.
Ithaca, NY
Paleontology and natural history museum of the Paleontological Research Institution.
Albany, NY
The oldest and largest state museum in the country, exploring New York's history, art, and cultural and natural landscapes.
Franklin County · Tupper Lake, NY
A natural history center on 115 acres featuring the Wild Walk, an elevated trail through the treetops.
Centerport, NY
The former estate of William K. Vanderbilt II with a mansion, natural history museum, and planetarium overlooking Northport Bay.
Hamilton County · Blue Mountain Lake, NY
A 121-acre campus telling the stories of the Adirondack region, its people, and its landscape.
Cumberland, MD
Regional history museum in Cumberland's 1932 Neoclassical Post Office & Courthouse.
West Chester, PA
Museum of vertical flight with 40+ civilian and military helicopters.
Annapolis, MD
Museum in the last surviving oyster packing plant on the Chesapeake Bay, interpreting maritime heritage.
Scranton, PA
State museum interpreting the story of hard coal mining and its immigrant communities.
Sharpsburg, MD
National battlefield preserving the site of the bloodiest single day in American military history.
Groton, CT
UConn Avery Point campus lighthouse preserved as a small maritime museum.
Southwest Baltimore · Baltimore, MD
One of the most comprehensive collections of American railroad artifacts, on the birthplace of American railroading.
Ridgely's Delight · Baltimore, MD
The rowhouse where George Herman "Babe" Ruth was born in 1895, restored as a museum to baseball's greatest player, two blocks from Oriole Park.
Locust Point · Baltimore, MD
Housed in a former oyster cannery on the Baltimore harbor, telling the stories of the workers, innovators, and industries that built modern America.
Bridgeport, CT
Museum in P. T. Barnum's 1893 landmark building interpreting Barnum, Bridgeport and 19th-century American culture.
Pelham Bay Park, Bronx · New York, NY
An 1836 Greek Revival mansion set on 9 acres of gardens and woodlands in Pelham Bay Park.
Fall River, MA
World's largest collection of preserved WWII naval vessels including the USS Massachusetts.
Old City · Philadelphia, PA
Explores the character and life of Benjamin Franklin, on the site of his Philadelphia home.
Boston, MA
Floating museum with restored tea ships interpreting the events of December 16, 1773.
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn · New York, NY
One of the oldest and largest art museums in the country, with a global collection from ancient Egypt to contemporary art and a landmark Beaux-Arts building.
Buffalo, NY
Largest inland naval park in the U.S., preserving USS Little Rock, USS The Sullivans and USS Croaker.
Gloucester, MA
Regional art and history museum with the finest collection of Fitz Henry Lane paintings.
St. Michaels, MD
18-acre waterfront campus with historic vessels, boat shop and exhibits on Chesapeake Bay life.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn · New York, NY
A community museum and civic organization displaying artifacts of New York City history.
Garden City, NY
Air and space museum with 75+ planes and spacecraft chronicling Long Island's role in aviation history.
New London, CT
Museum in Robert Mills–designed 1833 U.S. Custom House interpreting New London's maritime past.
Birdsboro, PA
Historic site preserving the birthplace of frontiersman Daniel Boone.
Fordham, Bronx · New York, NY
The final home of poet and author Edgar Allan Poe, where he wrote several of his most famous works.
West Baltimore · Baltimore, MD
The modest brick rowhouse where a young Edgar Allan Poe lived in the early 1830s, now a museum devoted to his life and legacy.
Scranton, PA
Museum of the streetcar era with restored trolleys and rides through the historic Crown Ave. Shops.
Amherst, MA
Homestead and The Evergreens preserving the world of poet Emily Dickinson and her family.
Onondaga County · Syracuse, NY
Housed in the 1850 Weighlock Building, dedicated to the history of the Erie Canal.
Erie, PA
Museum interpreting Great Lakes maritime history and home port of the U.S. Brig Niagara.
Lutherville, MD
One of the largest fire museums in the U.S. with 55+ pieces of firefighting apparatus.
Stoystown, PA
National park unit honoring the passengers and crew of United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.
Pittsburgh, PA
Museum inside Point State Park interpreting Western Pennsylvania's role in the French & Indian War and American Revolution.
Financial District, Manhattan · New York, NY
A museum dedicated to the study and interpretation of Early American history in a Revolutionary-era tavern.
Mumford, NY
Largest living-history museum in New York State with 68 restored 19th-century buildings.
Gettysburg, PA
Downtown museum focused on civilian and eyewitness experience of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Gettysburg, PA
Museum, Gettysburg Cyclorama and visitor center for the site of the 1863 battle.
Boston, MA
Intact Victorian Back Bay townhouse preserved as a museum of Gilded Age domestic life.
Glen Echo, MD
National Park Service arts campus in the former Glen Echo Amusement Park with the Dentzel Carousel.
University Heights, Bronx · New York, NY
The nation's first hall of fame, an open-air colonnade with 98 bronze busts of notable Americans.
Annapolis, MD
National Historic Landmark 1774 Georgian mansion designed by William Buckland.
Pittsfield, MA
Living history museum on the site of the third Shaker community, with the iconic Round Stone Barn.
Church Creek, MD
Visitor center commemorating Harriet Tubman's life and the Underground Railroad in her Maryland homeland.
Cambridge, MA
Museum of the ancient Near East with collections spanning Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Levant and Cyprus.
Frederick, MD
The Historical Society of Frederick County's museum, library and gardens in an 1820 mansion.
Sandwich, MA
100-acre American history museum campus with folk art, antique autos, and gardens.
North Tonawanda, NY
Museum in the historic Herschell factory dedicated to carousels and mechanical amusement history.
Worcester, MA
The former Higgins arms and armor collection now presented within the Worcester Art Museum.
Yonkers, NY
A museum complex with an art museum, historic Glenview house, planetarium, and views of the Hudson River.
Hell's Kitchen · New York, NY
A sea, air, and space museum aboard the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, plus the space shuttle Enterprise and the Concorde.
Boston, MA
I.M. Pei–designed presidential library and museum devoted to the life and legacy of JFK.
Jamaica, Queens · New York, NY
The home of Rufus King, signer of the U.S. Constitution and antislavery advocate.
New Haven, CT
Museum of Catholic and Knights of Columbus history and heritage.
Lake Placid, NY
Museum inside the 1932 & 1980 Olympic Center celebrating the region's Winter Games legacy.
Lancaster, PA
Living history village interpreting Pennsylvania German rural life and material culture.
Norwalk, CT
National Historic Landmark 1868 Second Empire–style country mansion.
Stony Brook, NY
Smithsonian-affiliated museum of American art, history, and carriages set on a nine-acre campus.
Cambridge, MA
Home of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Washington's Cambridge headquarters in 1775–76.
Corona, Queens · New York, NY
The preserved home of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, offering tours and a research archive.
Waterbury, CT
Art and history museum interpreting Connecticut culture with a nationally recognized American art collection.
NoHo, Manhattan · New York, NY
New York's only preserved family home from the 19th century, offering a rare window into domestic life.
Frederick, MD
"The Battle That Saved Washington" — 1864 Civil War battlefield south of Frederick.
Cambridge, MA
America's first landscaped rural cemetery and a National Historic Landmark arboretum.
Old City · Philadelphia, PA
Uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked America's ongoing experiment in liberty.
Upper East Side · New York, NY
Explores the past, present, and future of New York City and the people who have shaped it, through exhibitions and public programs.
Center City · Philadelphia, PA
America's finest museum of medical history, part of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Mystic, CT
The nation's leading maritime museum, with a re-created 19th-century coastal village and historic ships including the Charles W. Morgan.
Otsego County · Cooperstown, NY
The official hall of fame for Major League Baseball, honoring the sport's greatest players and pioneers.
Harrisburg, PA
Museum devoted to a balanced presentation of the American Civil War overlooking Harrisburg.
Old City · Philadelphia, PA
The only museum in America devoted to the U.S. Constitution and the story of We the People.
Annapolis Junction, MD
NSA-operated museum on the history of cryptology, including Enigma machines and code-breaking exhibits.
Hunt Valley, MD
Museum of the history of American defense electronics from the telegraph era to today.
St. George, Staten Island · New York, NY
Preserves and interprets the history of lighthouses and lighthouse keepers of America.
Frederick, MD
Museum interpreting medical innovations arising from the American Civil War.
Monroe County · Rochester, NY
The home of suffragist Susan B. Anthony and site of her 1872 arrest for voting.
Columbia, PA
World-class collection of horology from the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors.
Seneca Falls, NY
The nation's oldest membership organization recognizing the achievements of great American women.
New Bedford, MA
World's largest museum devoted to the global story of whales and whaling, on a National Historical Park.
Windsor Locks, CT
One of the largest aviation museums in the Northeast with 100+ aircraft.
Downtown Brooklyn · New York, NY
Housed in a decommissioned 1936 subway station, the Transit Museum tells the story of the largest transit network in North America.
Niagara Falls, NY
Museum interpreting the role of Niagara Falls and the Suspension Bridge in freedom-seeking journeys.
Boston, MA
Bulfinch-attributed Beacon Hill townhouse preserved as the home of writer Rose Standish Nichols.
Ocean City, MD
Beachfront museum in the 1891 U.S. Life-Saving Station interpreting resort and rescue history.
Park Slope, Brooklyn · New York, NY
A reconstructed 1699 Dutch farmhouse and site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Brooklyn.
Sturbridge, MA
The largest living history museum in the Northeast, recreating early 19th-century New England.
Boston, MA
Federal-style Bulfinch mansion, headquarters of Historic New England.
Boston, MA
Colonial home of Paul Revere and the oldest remaining structure in downtown Boston.
Salem, MA
One of the oldest continuously operating museums in the U.S., renowned for maritime, Asian and American art.
Cambridge, MA
One of the oldest anthropology museums in the world, part of Harvard.
University City · Philadelphia, PA
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, home to nearly a million objects.
Provincetown, MA
Historic art association and museum documenting the century-old Provincetown art colony.
Flushing Meadows Corona Park · New York, NY
Home to the Panorama of the City of New York — a 9,335 sq ft architectural model of NYC — plus rotating contemporary art in the 1939 World's Fair pavilion.
Strasburg, PA
Official state railroad museum with more than 100 historic locomotives and rail cars.
Reading, PA
Combined art, science and civilization museum with a planetarium and arboretum.
Binghamton, NY
Regional art, history and science museum with the Kopernik Observatory outreach and Link Planetarium.
Rochester, NY
Regional science, technology and Native American history museum with the Strasenburgh Planetarium.
East Aurora, NY
National Historic Landmark district and Arts and Crafts community founded by Elbert Hubbard.
Salem, MA
Circa-1727 Georgian house museum on the Peabody Essex Museum campus.
Salem, MA
Museum devoted to interpreting the 1692 Salem witch trials.
Liverpool, NY
Onondaga County museum interpreting the 19th-century salt industry that gave Syracuse its nickname.
Sandwich, MA
Local history museum devoted to the 19th-century Boston & Sandwich Glass Company and Cape Cod history.
Sandy Spring, MD
Community heritage museum in Sandy Spring interpreting Quaker and African American history.
Auburn, NY
Home of William H. Seward, U.S. Secretary of State and abolitionist, with original family collections.
Financial District, Manhattan · New York, NY
Preserves and interprets the history of New York City as a great port, with historic ships and galleries.
Springfield, MA
Five-museum quadrangle including the Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum, art, history and science.
Stamford, CT
118-acre museum campus with a working farm, planetarium and observatory in Stamford.
Rockville, MD
Restored 1850 medical office interpreting the medical practice of Dr. Edward Stonestreet.
Groton, CT
Official U.S. Navy submarine museum and home of the world's first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus.
Cooperstown, NY
A living history museum interpreting 19th-century rural life in New York State.
Washington Heights, Manhattan · New York, NY
A free museum and reference library dedicated to the arts and cultures of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
Salem, MA
17th-century seaside mansion made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel of the same name.
Upper East Side · New York, NY
Explores the intersection of 4,000 years of art and Jewish culture from around the world in the Warburg Mansion on Museum Mile.
Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan · New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum's branch dedicated to the art, architecture, and gardens of medieval Europe.
Upper East Side · New York, NY
One of the world's largest and most comprehensive art museums, with more than two million works spanning 5,000 years of human creativity.
Murray Hill · New York, NY
Rare books, illuminated manuscripts, drawings, and music manuscripts housed in J. Pierpont Morgan's original library.
East Baltimore · Baltimore, MD
The first wax museum of African American history in the country, with more than 100 life-size figures documenting Black history from ancient Africa to today.
Midtown, Manhattan · New York, NY
Explores the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging media.
Downtown · Baltimore, MD
The nation's first purpose-built museum (1814), reborn as a community museum telling Baltimore's stories through art, music, and oral history.
Harrisburg, PA
Pennsylvania's official state museum, spanning geology, archaeology, art and industrial history.
Rochester, NY
Devoted exclusively to the history and exploration of play; home to the National Toy Hall of Fame and World Video Game Hall of Fame.
Mount Vernon · Baltimore, MD
A free museum with a global collection spanning 7,000 years — ancient Egypt, medieval Europe, Islamic art, Asian art, and more — assembled by Henry and William Walters.
Suffolk County · Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Explores the whaling heritage of Cold Spring Harbor and Long Island's maritime past.
Annapolis, MD
History of the U.S. Navy and the Naval Academy through the Rogers Ship Model Collection and more.
Boston, MA
Museum interpreting the history of USS Constitution — Old Ironsides — the world's oldest commissioned warship afloat.
Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx · New York, NY
The oldest surviving building in the Bronx, a National Historic Landmark built in 1748.
Flushing, Queens · New York, NY
A Victorian house museum, bird sanctuary, and Victorian garden in Flushing.
Red Hook, Brooklyn · New York, NY
Housed aboard the 1914 Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge #79, preserving New York's waterfront heritage.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn · New York, NY
Preserves the history of Weeksville, one of the largest 19th-century free Black communities in America.
West Yarmouth, MA
Museum built around artifacts from the pirate ship Whydah Gally, wrecked off Cape Cod in 1717.
Annapolis, MD
Home of Declaration of Independence signer William Paca with a restored 2-acre pleasure garden.
East Flatbush, Brooklyn · New York, NY
New York City's oldest surviving structure and the first designated NYC landmark.
Amherst, MA
Cultural institution devoted to rescuing Yiddish books and telling the story of modern Jewish culture.
Erie County · Buffalo, NY
A hands-on science museum featuring exhibits on natural history, space, and the human body.
Columbia County · Hudson, NY
The Persian-inspired home of Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church, set on 250 landscaped acres.
Greene County · Catskill, NY
The home and studio of Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of American landscape painting.
Rosebank, Staten Island · New York, NY
The home of pioneering photographer Alice Austen, a National Historic Landmark and site of LGBTQ history.
Corning, NY
The world's largest collection of glass art and history, spanning 3,500 years, with live glassblowing demonstrations.
Hamden, CT
Site of Eli Whitney's gun factory, now an experimental learning workshop and history museum.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn · New York, NY
An interactive museum introducing Jewish history and heritage to children of all backgrounds.
Astoria, Queens · New York, NY
The nation's only museum dedicated to the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media.
