Great Museums

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The Charleston Museum: America's First Museum
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South Carolina's Charleston Museum features rattlesnakes, a Civil War journal, silver, furniture.
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Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian: Native Voice
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The Smithsonian National Museum's display of American Indian history, culture, art and life.
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The National D-Day Museum: Triumph of the Spirit
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The artifacts of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans depict war in human terms, celebrate the American spirit and sacrifice.
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Institute of Texan Cultures: Behind the Lone Star
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The Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio displays the cultures of the state.
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The Colorado History Museum: Crossroads of Culture
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Denver's Colorado History Museum includes black cowboy life and mining.
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The California State Railroad Museum: Binding Ties
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Restored locomotives, archival photographs and artifacts at the California State Railroad Museum depict the experiences of railroad builders.
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The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame: Horse Power
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The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., celebrates thoroughbred racing.
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The Whale Museum: Science at Sea
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The museum of the killer whale on San Juan Island, Washington.
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The Library of Congress: Volumes to Speak
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The Library of Congress holdings include Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence, the contents of Lincoln's pockets the night he was shot, Gershwin's piano.
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The National Music Museum: America's Shrine to Music
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South Dakota's National Music Museum features instruments from all culture and historical periods.
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Collective Vision
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The art collection at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum remains on permanent display exactly as Isabella Stewart Gardner willed it.
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The George Eastman House: Picture Perfect
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The George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y., focuses on the art, technology and impact of photography and motion pictures.
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The California Surf Museum: Proudly We Wave
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The spirit of surfing dwells in a California museum.
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The National Museum of Women in the Arts: A Woman's Touch
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Works of 16th-century Dutch artists to 20th-century abstract expressionists fill the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
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The New York City Fire Museum: Trial by Fire
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A 1904 firehouse, the former home of Engine 30, holds the New York City Fire Museum.
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The Autry Museum of Western Heritage: Spirit of the West
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A Los Angeles museum shows Western heritage, beginning with 16th-century conquistadors.
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The Delta Blues Museum: The Blues Lives On!
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Muddy Water's sharecropper cabin, Sonny Boy Williamson's harmonicas, B.B. King's guitar at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Miss.
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The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum: Water Ways
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Covering 600 years of the estuary's history is the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
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The Morris Museum of Art: The Art of the South
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Morris Museum of Art has Gullah art, antebellum portraits, Civil War paintings.
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The Ellis Island Immigration Museum: Face of America
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Everyday objects, traditional clothing and the oral history project make up the Ellis Island Immigrant Museum.
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The Hollywood Entertainment Museum: American Dream Factory
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Art, technology, imagination, culture mark the Hollywood Entertainment Museum.
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The American Folk Art Museum: American Anthem
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Folk art should challenge, surprise and inspire creativity.
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Art Gets a Start in America
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America's first art museum and school opens during Jefferson's administration.
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The Field Museum of Natural History: Earthly Treasures
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Human cultures, biology and geology get center stage at the Field Museum of Natural History.
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The DuSable Museum of African-American History: American Soul
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The DuSable Museum honors black achievements from African history through the present.
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The Molly Brown House Museum: The Unsinkable
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The Denver home of the "unsinkable" Molly Brown shows the heroine's eclectic tastes.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art: World of Art (New York City)
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On Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibits 5,000 years of world artworks.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art: World of Art (New York City)
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Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art houses a collection that represents the broadest spectrum of human achievement.
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The Franklin Institute: Wonderland of Science (Philadelphia)
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Commemorating the scientific genius of Benjamin Franklin, a Philadelphia institute offers interactive exhibits.
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The Henry Ford: Made in America (Dearborn, MI)
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Henry Ford opens a museum in 1929 Dearborn, Mich., to celebrate American innovation.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art: World of Art (New York City)
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On Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibits 5,000 years of world artworks.
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An Acquiring Mind: Philippe de Montebello and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Philippe de Montebello, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music
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Musicians, dancers and street performers vow to preserve the traditional music of New Orleans, most notably, jazz.
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Elevated Thinking: The High Line in New York City
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