List of open-air and living history museums in the United States

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This is a list of open-air and living history museums in the United States.

Ecological and environmental living museums[]

See also: List of zoos § United States

Farm museums[]

Alabama

  • Landmark Park, Dothan

Alaska

  • Alaska Native Heritage Center, Anchorage

California

Colorado

  • , Littleton

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Illinois

Indiana

  • Amish Acres Historic Farm & Heritage Resort, Nappanee
  • Buckley Homestead Living History Farm, Lowell
  • Conner Prairie, Fishers
  • , Charlestown
  • Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City
  • Prophetstown State Park, Battle Ground

Iowa

  • Living History Farms, Urbandale
  • , Cedar Rapids

Kansas

  • Old Cowtown Museum, Wichita[3]

Kentucky

Maine

Norlands Living History Center</ref>

Maryland

Massachusetts

  • Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge
  • Pioneer Village, Salem
  • Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth
  • Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm, Newbury
  • Waters Farm, Sutton
  • Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield

Michigan

  • Colonial Michilimackinac, Mackinaw City, Michigan[4]
  • Greenfield Village, Dearborn
  • White Pine Village, Ludington, Michigan[5]

Minnesota

Nebraska

  • Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, Grand Island
  • Wessels Living History Farm, York

New Hampshire

  • New Hampshire Farm Museum, Milton
  • Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth

New Jersey

New Mexico

  • New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces
  • El Rancho de las Golondrinas, Santa Fe County

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oregon

  • B Street Living Permaculture Museum, Pacific University[8]
  •  [ceb], Springfield
  • Dufur Historical Society Living History Museum, Dufur
  • High Desert Museum, Bend
  • Philip Foster Farm on the Oregon Trail Eagle Creek
  • Schreiber Log Cabin, Dufur
  • Sherwood Heritage Center, Sherwood

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

  • Barrington Living History Farm, Washington-on-the-Brazos

Utah

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Living transportation museums[]

Main article: Open-air museum
See also: List of heritage railways
See also: Category:Railroad museums in the United States

Military forts and posts[]

Main article: List of forts § United States

The list of forts lists both historical, preserved and currently operational military posts. Not all are open to the public. Some of those open to the public will have living history guides.

Battery Gunnison, a US Army Coast Artillery Battery at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, is being restored to its 1943 configuration by the Army Ground Forces Association, a non-profit living history organization, and is open for tours throughout the year.[15]

Renaissance fairs[]

Main article: List of Renaissance fairs

Other open-air and living history museums[]

Arizona

  • Pioneer Living History Museum, Phoenix
  • Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott

Arkansas

  • Ozark Folk Center, Mountain View

California

The Watts Towers Watts

Colorado

Connecticut

  • Mystic Seaport, Mystic

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Illinois

Indiana

  • Conner Prairie, Fishers
  • , Charlestown
  • Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City
  • Spring Mill State Park, Mitchell

Iowa

  • Living History Farms, Urbandale

Kansas

Kentucky

  • Adsmore, Princeton
  • My Old Kentucky Home State Park, Bardstown
  • Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Mercer County

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

  • Hancock Shaker Village, Hancock
  • Historic Deerfield, Deerfield
  • Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge

Michigan

  • Crossroad's Village & Huckleberry Railroad, Flint
  • Greenfield Village, Dearborn
  • Historic Mill Creek State Park, Mackinaw City
  • , Whitehall

Minnesota

East Grand Forks Heritage Village, East Grand Forks, Minnesota
Village of Yesteryear, Owatonna, Minnesota

Missouri

Montana

  • Daniels County Museum & Pioneer Town, Scobey
  • Nevada City Living History Museum, Virginia City

New Hampshire

New Jersey

  • Allaire Village, Wall Township
  • Historic Cold Spring Village, Cape May
  • Longstreet Farm, Holmdel Township

New York

North Carolina

A museum interpreter explains aspects of a 19th-century apothecary in Old Salem

North Dakota

  • Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Yellowstone

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

  • South County Museum, Narragansett

Tennessee

Texas

  • George Ranch Historical Park, Fort Bend County
  • Gonzales Pioneer Village Living History Center

Vermont

  • Shelburne Museum, Shelburne

Virginia

  • Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg
  • Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, Staunton
  • Henricus Historical Park, Chesterfield County
  • Jamestown Settlement, Jamestown
  • Mount Vernon, home of George Washington, including a working farm, grist mill and distillery
  • Pamplin Historical Park, Petersburg

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

  • Museum of the American West, Lander

See also[]

Museum name Town State Type Summary
Alabama Constitution Village Huntsville, Alabama Alabama Living 1819 life, includes a law office, print shop, land surveyor's office, post office, cabinetmaker's shop and residence
Dothan Alabama Living 1890s living history farm and village
Pioneer Living History Village Phoenix Arizona Living Late 19th-century town
Sharlot Hall Museum Prescott Arizona Open-air Includes special living history programs for mid-1860s
Ozark Folk Center Mountain View Arkansas Living State park with traditional crafts and music
Columbia State Historic Park Columbia California Living Mid-to-late 19th-century Gold Rush town
Empire Mine State Historic Park Grass Valley California Living Late 19th-century living history tours, gold mine complex
Heritage Square Museum Montecito Heights, Los Angeles California Living Covers different periods; includes eight historic structures, a train car, and a trolley car
Leonis Adobe Calabasas California Living 1880s California ranch
San Dieguito Heritage Museum Encinitas California Local history Offers family living history programs on special days
National City California Farm website, focus is rural life from 1900 to 1920
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site Otero County Colorado Living Reconstructed 1840s adobe fur trading post on the mountain branch of the Santa Fe Trail
Delta Colorado Living website, 1820s fur trading post
Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site, Garden of the Gods Colorado Springs Colorado Living Depicts life in four time periods: American Indian area in 1775; 1860s Galloway Homestead; 1880s Chambers Home and Ranch; 1907 Edwardian Country Estate
South Park City Fairplay Colorado Open-air Mid-19th-century recreated mining town
Mystic Seaport Mystic Connecticut Living 19th-century maritime village with historic ships and buildings
Barberville Florida Open-air/living Late 19th- to early 20th-century rural life, 18 structures 1879 - 1926 http://www.pioneersettlement.org
Bellevue Plantation Tallahassee Florida Farm Part of the Tallahassee Museum
Castillo de San Marcos St. Augustine Florida Living Colonial fort
Cracker Country Tampa Florida Open-air Late 19th- to early 20th-century rural life, includes thirteen original buildings dating from 1870 to 1912
Fort Clinch State Park Fernandina Beach Florida Living 19th-century fort with period re-enactors
Lake Kissimmee State Park Lake Wales Florida Living Includes Cow Camp, an 1876 cattle camp
Mission San Luis de Apalachee Tallahassee Florida Living Reconstructed 17th-century Spanish mission and Apalachee village
Morningside Nature Center Gainesville Florida Farm Includes 1870s farm
Silver River Museum Silver Springs Florida Open-air Includes restored or "newly built" 19th-century farm buildings with a special living history event
Agrirama Tifton Georgia Farm website, includes five areas: a traditional farm community of the 1870s, an 1890s progressive farmstead, an industrial sites complex, rural town, Peanut Museum, and the Georgia Museum of Agriculture Center
Westville Lumpkin Georgia Living Recreates an 1850 working town with over 30 buildings
Kona Coffee Living History Farm Captain Cook Hawaii Farm Depicts the daily lives of early Japanese immigrants during the period of 1920-1945
Polynesian Cultural Center Hawaii Living
Kline Creek Farm Winfield Illinois Farm Late 19th-century farm
Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site Lerna Illinois Living 1840s farmstead with three historic houses
Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site New Salem Illinois Living 1830s village
Rockton Illinois Living website, 1830 - 1846 village
Naper Settlement Naperville Illinois Living 19th-century museum village

See also[]

  • Category: Historic districts in the United States by state

References[]

  1. ^ Riley's Farm Living History Tours
  2. ^ Panhandle Pioneer Settlement Living History Museum
  3. ^ Old Cowtown Museum
  4. ^ "Colonial Michilimackinac".
  5. ^ https://historicwhitepinevillage.org/
  6. ^ Historic Cold Spring Village
  7. ^ Bethpage Village
  8. ^ B Street Living Permaculture Museum
  9. ^ Pennsylvania Plantation
  10. ^ [1]
  11. ^ [2]
  12. ^ http://www.wheelerfarm.com
  13. ^ Colonial Williamsburg
  14. ^ Matthews Living History Farm Museum
  15. ^ "Army Ground Forces Association". www.armygroundforces.org. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  16. ^ Four Mile Historic Park
  17. ^ Vermilionville Cajun and Creole Folklife Park
  18. ^ "Historic St. Mary's City". Archived from the original on 2000-12-04. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  19. ^ Pinecrest Historical Village
  20. ^ "Rhinelander Wisconsin". Retrieved 15 December 2013.
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