Musée d'histoire de Chicago

Chicago

Le musée d'histoire de Chicago , est un musée fondé en 1856 à Chicago dans le quartier de Lincoln Park au coin de Clark Street et de North Avenue près du zoo de Lincoln Park. Il rassemble des costumes, des peintures, des sculptures et des photographies sur l'histoire de la ville et du pays. En plus de ses expositions, le musée abrite une bibliothèque, ouverte au public. De nombreuses collections assemblées à la création du musée furent détruites lors du grand incendie de Chicago en 1871 mais, comme la ville, le musée renaquit de ses cendres. Parmi les documents qui furent brûlés, on peut citer l'original de la Proclamation d'émancipation signée de la main d'Abraham Lincoln. Après l'incendie, la Société historique de Chicago recommença sa collecte d'objets, qu'elle entreposa dans le Scammon Building jusqu'à ce que le bâtiment et son contenu soient détruits par un incendie en 1874. La Société fit alors construire un bâtiment conçu pour résister au feu, sur le site que son musée occupait avant 1871. Le nouveau bâtiment fut ouvert au public en 1896. L'actuel musée fut quant à lui construit en 1932. Douze ans plus tard, la Société fit l'acquisition de la très grande collection de Charles F. Gunther.

Conway Public Library

Conway (New Hampshire)

The Conway Public Library serves the town of Conway, New Hampshire. It is located at 15 Greenwood Avenue in Conway village, in an architecturally distinguished Classical Revival building built in 1900 as a gift to the town from Sarah and Lydia Jenks. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

DAR Museum

Washington (district de Columbia)

The DAR Museum, run by the Daughters of the American Revolution, is an art and history museum in Washington, D.C. The museum is located in Memorial Continental Hall, just down the street from DAR Constitution Hall, where some of the museum's concerts take place.The museum is known for its more than 30,000 examples of objects made or used in America prior to the Industrial Revolution. Items on display in the more than 30 period rooms include: furniture, silver, paintings, ceramics, and textiles.The museum's collection also includes the New Hampshire Toy Attic where children are able to play with reproductions of historic toys; it is geared toward children aged four through ten, but offers a range of family-friendly content including its more than 30 period rooms.

Deerfield Academy

Deerfield (Massachusetts)

Deerfield Academy is a coeducational preparatory school in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Founded in 1797, it is one of the oldest secondary schools in the United States. It is a member of the Eight Schools Association, the Ten Schools Admissions Organization, and the Six Schools League.

Dittrick Museum of Medical History

Cleveland

The Dittrick Museum of Medical History is part of the Dittrick Medical History Center of the College of Arts and Sciences of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. The Dittrick Medical History Center is dedicated to the study of the history of medicine through a collection of rare books, museum artifacts, archives, and images. The museum was established in 1898 by the Cleveland Medical Library Association and today functions as an interdisciplinary study center. It is housed in the Allen Memorial Medical Library on the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio's University Circle.

Duluth Public Library

Duluth (Minnesota)

The Duluth Public Library is a library in downtown Duluth, Minnesota. It is a part of the Arrowhead Library System and serves a population of 86,319.

Ulrich Museum

Wichita

The Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art is a museum located on the campus of Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. The museum opened on December 7, 1974 in McKnight Art Center, where it is still located today. It is best known for the large Venetian glass and marble mosaic by Joan Miró found on the facade of the building, titled Personnage Oiseaux, a 28-by-52-foot mural on 80 panels. It is also well known for the large Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection of 80 works across 330 acres, which was named Top Ten among campus sculptures in 2006 by Public Art Review. The sculpture collection includes works by Fernando Botero, Andy Goldsworthy, Lila Katzen, Joan Miró, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Otterness, Auguste Rodin, Sophia Vari, Elyn Zimmerman, and Francisco Zuniga. The Outdoor Sculpture Collection is part of the museum's permanent collection, which contains approximately 6,500 objects. The full collection is searchable online through the Ulrich Museum Collection Portal. The museum's permanent collection includes works by Benny Andrews, Diane Arbus, Barkley Hendricks, Nan Goldin, Zhang Huan, Sol LeWitt, Joan Mitchell, Gordon Parks, Kara Walker, and Andy Warhol, among many others. The collection also contains large groups of works by a number of artists, including Lee Adler, Minna Wright Citron, Gordon Parks, Marian Stephenson Patmore, and Harry Sternberg.

Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art

Indianapolis

The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art is located in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana and houses an extensive collection of visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas, as well as Western American paintings and sculptures collected by businessman and philanthropist Harrison Eiteljorg . The museum houses one of the finest collections of Native contemporary art in the world.

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library

Buffalo (New York)

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library is located on Lafayette Square, Buffalo, New York. The current facility, designed by Kideney Architects and built in 1964, replaced the original Cyrus Eidlitz Buffalo Public Library Building dedicated in February 1887. The first Buffalo Public Library, in turn, replaced the Erie County, New York courthouse, which occupied the parcel from 1816-1876.Founded ca. 1835 as the Young Men's Association , prominent members included Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who was the editor of the Buffalo Express from 1869-1871. The Young Men's Association was a private subscription library, meaning that paid membership was required in order to borrow books. In 1883, the Association began a fund-raising campaign for a new building and held an architectural competition, which culminated in Eidlitz's 1887 design. Upon completion, the Association turned over its collections to the citizens of Buffalo and the Buffalo Public Library was born, with no requirement for dues or membership.Significant library collections include the original, hand-written manuscript of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which Twain donated to the library in 1885; and the Milestones of Science, a collection of first editions announcing major advancements in Western science.