South Carolina's Charleston Museum features rattlesnakes, a Civil War journal, silver, furniture.
The Smithsonian National Museum's display of American Indian history, culture, art and life.
The artifacts of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans depict war in human terms, celebrate the American spirit and sacrifice.
The Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio displays the cultures of the state.
Denver's Colorado History Museum includes black cowboy life and mining.
Restored locomotives, archival photographs and artifacts at the California State Railroad Museum depict the experiences of railroad builders.
The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., celebrates thoroughbred racing.
The museum of the killer whale on San Juan Island, Washington.
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.
South Dakota's National Music Museum features instruments from all culture and historical periods.
The art collection at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum remains on permanent display exactly as Isabella Stewart Gardner willed it.
The George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y., focuses on the art, technology and impact of photography and motion pictures.
The spirit of surfing dwells in a California museum.
Works of 16th-century Dutch artists to 20th-century abstract expressionists fill the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
A 1904 firehouse, the former home of Engine 30, holds the New York City Fire Museum.
A Los Angeles museum shows Western heritage, beginning with 16th-century conquistadors.
Muddy Water's sharecropper cabin, Sonny Boy Williamson's harmonicas, B.B. King's guitar at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Miss.
Covering 600 years of the estuary's history is the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
Morris Museum of Art has Gullah art, antebellum portraits, Civil War paintings.
Everyday objects, traditional clothing and the oral history project make up the Ellis Island Immigrant Museum.
Art, technology, imagination, culture mark the Hollywood Entertainment Museum.
Folk art should challenge, surprise and inspire creativity.
America's first art museum and school opens during Jefferson's administration.
The DuSable Museum honors black achievements from African history through the present.
Human cultures, biology and geology get center stage at the Field Museum of Natural History.
The Denver home of the "unsinkable" Molly Brown shows the heroine's eclectic tastes.
Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art houses a collection that represents the broadest spectrum of human achievement.
Commemorating the scientific genius of Benjamin Franklin, a Philadelphia institute offers interactive exhibits.
Henry Ford opens a museum in 1929 Dearborn, Mich., to celebrate American innovation.
Philippe de Montebello, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Musicians, dancers and street performers vow to preserve the traditional music of New Orleans, most notably, jazz.
Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibits 5,000 years of the world’s art. It is an encyclopedia of art history from every culture. Be dazzled by the variety of this NYC landmark’s collections, as the magnificence of “the Met” lights up your screen.
Featuring interviews with Walker Director Kathy Halbreich, artist Chuck Close, and choreographer Bill T. Jones, among others, illuminates the Walker’s mission to commission and present pioneering contemporary art; foster collaboration among visual, performing, and media artists; and engage diverse audiences in the excitement of the creative process.
MoMA’s peerless collection of modern art includes works by Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Pollock and Warhol, as well as the Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle and an Apple iPod.
Host Susan Stamberg takes us through the last 100 years of America's museums: Colonial Williamsburg, Museum of Modern Art, first African American Museum, and children’s museums are featured.
Featuring Tommy Lasorda, Bob Costas, and Joe Morgan, see the best of The National Baseball Museum’s 35,000 artifacts and 500,000 historic photographs. The Baseball Hall of Fame, also toured, immortalizes the great players of “America’s Game.”
Boston Children’s Museum started the “hands-on” tradition used by children’s museums today. Play is learning at this museum which gets objects out of cases so that children can interact, experiment, and follow their own curiosity.
The Met has the finest collection of Chinese artistic masterpieces of any museum outside of China. Its collection spans 5,000 years of political dynasties and varying religious and foreign influences, helping to expand our knowledge of China.
Smithsonian National Zoo is a leader in animal care, science, education, and sustainability. It helps preserve endangered species by breeding them in order to reintroduce them into nature. Our stars include Giant Pandas, Cheetahs, & Orangutans.
Enjoy Cuba’s art, history, and culture! From the Historical Museum of Science to the National Museum of Fine Arts, this award-winning program opens a window onto a surprisingly active cultural scene just beyond the U.S. southern horizon.
The master art collector, Philippe de Montebello, uses the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its curators to demonstrate his practiced eye and legacy of expanding The Met’s collection by 84,000 works of art.
Intimate look at birthplace of American music, or jazz!. Wendell Pierce introduces us to local musicians and educators, museum curators, archivists and historians, and activists . Musical underscore is by Grammy® award-winning trumpeter Irvin Mayfield.