Museums in United States: profiles, services and practical information.
The Denver Art Museum brings together collections from different regions and periods in two Golden Triangle buildings, a short walk from Civic Center Park. To manage the…
View profile →The Menil does not confine a visit to one building: its collection unfolds across a leafy 30-acre campus in Montrose, where several galleries and art spaces let visitors…
View profile →Beside the farmers’ market and Bicentennial Capitol Mall, the Tennessee State Museum offers a broad reading of the state: from natural history to music, daily life, poli…
View profile →Inside the former Capitol building, Arizona Capitol Museum turns the state’s political history into a walk through rooms, objects and spaces once used for public busines…
View profile →Phoenix Art Museum lets visitors plan a cultural outing around the calendar as well as their budget: its collection spans classic and contemporary art, while changing ex…
View profile →In central Anaheim, MUZEO offers a more intimate cultural stop than the theme parks. A visit links the main building with the historic Carnegie Library, while exhibition…
View profile →The Chicago Cultural Center turns a former public library into a place to stop and look up. Opened in 1897, the building combines marble staircases, mosaics and two larg…
View profile →At the Art Institute, an hour is barely enough to whet your appetite. The museum brings together works from many periods and cultures, from antiquities to modern art; it…
View profile →Behind a doorway in Old Town/Chinatown, downtown noise gives way to courtyards, carved stone, pavilions and water. Lan Su grew from a collaboration between Portland and…
View profile →On Copley Square, the Boston Public Library turns a free visit into a look at the idea of a library as civic space. The McKim Building opened in 1895 and was conceived a…
View profile →At 151 Mulberry Street, the Italian American Museum preserves a story that Little Italy’s façades and restaurants cannot tell by themselves. The institution presents exh…
View profile →Dumbarton Oaks brings two visits together on one Georgetown estate: an art museum and a historic terraced garden. The museum holds Byzantine and pre-Columbian collection…
View profile →Tudor Place was home to six generations of Martha Washington’s descendants; today it is a house museum and 5.5-acre garden on a residential Georgetown street. The instit…
View profile →The Tower Theater opened in December 1926 as a state-of-the-art cinema for South Florida. Decades later, as Cuban families arrived in Miami and Calle Ocho became a place…
View profile →On Washington Avenue, The Wolfsonian–FIU holds a collection that treats design as more than decoration. Posters, furniture, industrial objects, books and graphic works s…
View profile →The Art Deco Museum is a short introduction to South Beach’s streetscape: before looking at the façades, it helps visitors recognise portholes, concrete eyebrows, tropic…
View profile →On Beacon Hill’s north slope, the Museum of African American History preserves two buildings that tell how Boston’s Black community organised its life and fought for fre…
View profile →Nichols House Museum opens a different door onto Beacon Hill: a home that shows how domestic life was organised from the nineteenth into the twentieth century. Built in…
View profile →The Chinese Historical Society of America Museum offers another way to understand Chinatown: rather than stopping at its façades, it traces the experiences of people who…
View profile →On Esplanade Avenue, where the French Quarter gives way to the Frenchmen Street music corridor, the former U.S. Mint houses the New Orleans Jazz Museum. Its collection f…
View profile →On Royal Street, among cast-iron balconies and shopfronts, The Historic New Orleans Collection offers a reason to slow down and read the city more closely. The museum br…
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The band’s hometown museum traces more than five decades through personal objects, photographs, videos and awards.
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Statewide musical heritage museum in Tuscumbia, with artist exhibits and a separately scheduled recording experience.
View profile →A sculpture and architecture park in Ghent, outside Hudson, with large outdoor works, a gallery and walking routes over varied natural terrain.
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