Websites for Museums listed in Riches, Rivals & Radicals: 100 Years of Museums in America

*Museums are listed in the first section that they are mentioned.  Many of the museums are mentioned repeatedly throughout the book.

 

Introduction

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo: http://www.albrightknox.org/

American Museum of Natural History: http://www.amnh.org/

Bishop Museum, Honolulu: http://www.bishopmuseum.org/

Boston Children’s Museum: http://www.bostonkids.org/

Brooklyn Children’s Museum: http://www.brooklynkids.org/

Brooklyn Museum: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/

California Science Center: http://www.californiasciencecenter.org/MainPage.php

Formerly known as California Museum of Science and Industry

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh: http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/

Includes Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, and The Andy Warhol Museum

Chicago History Museum: http://www.chicagohs.org/

Cleveland Museum of Art: http://www.clemusart.com/

Corning Museum of Glass: http://www.cmog.org/

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville: http://www.countrymusichalloffame.org/

Dallas Museum of Art: http://www.dm-art.org/index.htm

Detroit Institute of Arts: http://www.dia.org/

El Museo del Barrio, New York: http://www.elmuseo.org/

Farmer’s Museum, Cooperstown, NY: http://www.farmersmuseum.org/

Field Museum: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/

Includes The Hall of Archaeology of North America

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco: http://www.famsf.org/

Includes the de Young Museum

Hampton University Museum: http://museum.hamptonu.edu/

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village: http://www.hfmgv.org/

Honolulu Academy of Arts: http://www.honoluluacademy.org/cmshaa/academy/index.aspx

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: http://www.gardnermuseum.org/

Kansas City Art Institute: http://www.kcai.edu/

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: http://www.metmuseum.org/

Miami Science Museum: http://www.miamisci.org/

Also known as Miami Planetarium and Museum of Science

Minneapolis Institute of Arts: http://www.artsmia.org/

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: http://www.mfa.org/

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York: http://www.moma.org/

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago: http://www.msichicago.org/

National Civil Rights Museum: http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/home.htm

Newark Museum: http://www.newarkmuseum.org/

New York City Fire Museum: http://www.nycfiremuseum.org/

North Carolina Museum of Art: http://ncartmuseum.org/interim/home.php

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry: http://www.omsi.edu/

Pacific Science Center, Seattle: http://www.pacsci.org/

Portland Art Museum: http://portlandartmuseum.org/

Rochester Museum and Science Center: http://www.rmsc.org/

Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico: http://roswellmuseum.org/

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA): http://www.sfmoma.org/

Science Museum of Minnesota: http://www.smm.org/

Smithsonian Institute: http://www.si.edu/

National Museum of African Art: http://www.nmafa.si.edu/index2.html

National Air and Space Museum: http://www.nasm.si.edu/

American Art Museum: http://americanart.si.edu/

National Museum of American History: http://americanhistory.si.edu/

National Museum of the American Indian: http://americanhistory.si.edu/

Anacostia Community Museum: http://anacostia.si.edu/

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum: http://cooperhewitt.org/

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: http://hirshhorn.si.edu/

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: http://www.asia.si.edu/

National Zoological Park: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/

National Museum of Natural History: http://www.mnh.si.edu/

National Postal Museum: http://postalmuseum.si.edu/

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis: http://www.walkerart.org/index.wac

Wing Luke Asian Museum: http://www.wingluke.org/

Worcester Art Museum: http://www.worcesterart.org/

  

Chapter 1 “The Building”

Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum: http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/

Agua Caliente Museum: http://www.accmuseum.org/

Akron Art Museum: http://www.akronartmuseum.org/

American Folk Art Museum: http://www.folkartmuseum.org/

Art Institute of Chicago: http://www.artic.edu/aic/

Bellevue Arts Museum: http://www.bellevuearts.org/

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum: http://www.bergstrom-mahlermuseum.com/

Blanton Museum of Art, Texas: http://www.blantonmuseum.org/

Center of Science and Industry, Columbus: http://www.cosi.org/

Children’s Museum of Houston: http://cmhouston.org

Children’s Museum of Indianapolis: http://www.childrensmuseum.org/

Colonial Willamsburg: http://www.history.org/

Conner Prairie Interactive History Park, Indiana: http://www.connerprairie.org/

Contemporary Jewish Museum: http://www.thecjm.org/

Denver Art Museum: http://www.denverartmuseum.org/home

Experience Music Project, Science Fiction Museum: http://www.empsfm.org/

Guggenheim: http://www.guggenheim.org/

Heard Museum, Phoenix: http://www.heard.org/

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art: http://www.museum.cornell.edu/

High Museum of Art, Atlanta: http://www.high.org/

Jewish Museum, New York: http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art: http://www.ringling.org/

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha: http://www.joslyn.org/

J. Paul Getty Museum: http://www.getty.edu/museum/

Kimbell Art Museum, Texas: https://www.kimbellart.org/index.aspx

Liberace Foundation and Museum: http://www.liberace.org/

Madison Children’s Museum: http://www.madisonchildrensmuseum.org/

Maryland Science Center: http://www.mdsci.org/

Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center: http://www.pequotmuseum.org/

Mercer and Fonthill Museum, PA: http://www.mercermuseum.org/

Milwaukee Public Museum: http://www.mpm.edu/

Missouri Botanical Garden: http://www.mobot.org/

Monterey Bay Aquarium, California: http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/

Morehead Planetarium and Science Center: http://www.moreheadplanetarium.org/

Museum at Tamastslikt: http://www.tamastslikt.org/

Museum at Warm Springs, Oregon: http://www.museumatwarmsprings.org/

Includes the Warm Springs Tribal Museum

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: http://www.mcachicago.org/

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: http://www.moca.org/

Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea: http://www.mysticseaport.org/

National Aquarium, Baltimore: http://www.aqua.org/

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: http://www.nga.gov/

National September 11th Memorial and Museum: http://www.national911memorial.org/site/PageServer?pagename=New_Home

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: http://www.nelson-atkins.org/art/HistBuilding.cfm

Beaux-Arts Nelson Gallery

Nevada Museum of Art: http://www.nevadaart.org/

Oakland Museum of California: http://museumca.org/

Old Sturbridge Village: http://www.osv.org/

Philadelphia Museum of Art: http://www.philamuseum.org/

Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin: http://www.ramart.org/ram/home.html

Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, San Diego: http://www.rhfleet.org/

San Diego Museum of Art: http://www.sdmart.org/

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: http://www.sbnature.org/

Seattle Art Museum: http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/

Strawbery Banke Museum: http://www.strawberybanke.org/

Telfair Museum of Art: http://telfair.org/

Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art: http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org/

Weisman Art Museim, Minnesota: http://www.weisman.umn.edu/

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: http://www.whitney.org/

  

Chapter 2 “The Collection”

Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadephia: http://www.ansp.org/

Amarillo Museum of Art: http://www.museumsusa.org/museums/info/1167436

 

Arkansas Art Center: http://www.arkarts.com/

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute: http://www.bcri.org/index.html

British Museum (London): http://www.britishmuseum.org/

Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington: http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/

Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit: http://www.maah-detroit.org/

Charleston Museum: http://www.charlestonmuseum.org/topic.asp?id=1

Corcoran Gallery of Art: http://www.corcoran.org/

Denver Museum of Nature and Science: http://www.dmns.org/

Drayton Hall: http://www.draytonhall.org/

DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago: http://www.dusablemuseum.org/

Gibbes Museum of Art, South Carolina: http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/

Gilcrease Museum: The Museum of the Americas: http://www.gilcrease.org/

Grand Rapids Public Museum: http://www.grmuseum.org/

Harvard University Art Museums: http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/

Includes Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler

The Hermitage: The Home of President Andrew Jackson: http://www.thehermitage.com/

Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens: http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/

Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: http://www.huntington.org/

Idaho Museum of Natural History at the University of Idaho: http://imnh.isu.edu/

Illinois State Museum: http://www.museum.state.il.us/

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston: http://www.icaboston.org/

Iraq Museum International: http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/

Japanese American National Museum: http://www.janm.org/

Mexican Museum, San Francisco: http://www.mexicanmuseum.org/

Mexic-Arte Museum: http://www.mexic-artemuseum.org/

Museum of Afro-American History, Boston: http://www.afroammuseum.org/

Museum of Chinese in America: http://www.mocanyc.org/

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: http://www.mfah.org/home.asp?par1=1&par2=1&par3=1&par4=1&par5=1&par6=1&par7=&lgc=0&eid=&currentPage=

Museum of Science, Boston: http://www.mos.org/

Museum of The Moving Image: http://www.movingimage.us/site/site.php

National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago: http://www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/

Also known as Mexican Fine Arts Center and Museum

National Museum of the US Air Force (Dayton, OH): http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center: http://www.freedomcenter.org/

National Voting Rights Museum and Institute: http://www.nvrm.org/

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: http://www.nhm.org/site/

New York Historical Society: https://www.nyhistory.org/web/

New York State Museum: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/

Paley Center for Media: http://www.paleycenter.org/

Includes the Museum of Television and Media

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University: http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/

Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology: http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/index.php

Please Touch Museum (Children), Philadelphia: http://www.pleasetouchmuseum.org/

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum: http://rockhall.com/

Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, Oklahoma: http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/

Shelburne Museum, Vermont: http://www.shelburnemuseum.org/

Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection (Autry): http://theautry.org/about-us/what-is-the-autry

Speed Art Museum: http://www.speedmuseum.org/

State Museum at Majdanek: http://www.majdanek.pl/?lng=1

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: http://www.clarkart.edu/

Stonewall Jackson House: http://www.stonewalljackson.org/

Strong National Museum of Play: http://www.museumofplay.org/

Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello: http://www.monticello.org/

University of Nebraska State Museum: http://www-museum.unl.edu/

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: http://www.penn.museum/

Also known as Penn Museum

 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: http://www.ushmm.org/

  

Chapter 3 “The Exhibition”

Bell Museum of Natural History: http://www.bellmuseum.org/

Berkeley Art Museum (University of California): http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/

Bostonian Society (Old State House Museum): http://www.bostonhistory.org/

 

Buffalo Museum of Science: http://www.sciencebuff.org/

 

California Academy of Sciences: http://www.calacademy.org/

Chippewa Valley Museum: http://www.cvmuseum.com/

C.M. Russell Museum: http://www.cmrussell.org/

Custer Battlefield Museum: http://www.custermuseum.org/

Dayton Art Institute: http://www.daytonartinstitute.org/

D-Day Museum: http://www.ddaymuseum.org/

Deutsches Museum (Germany): http://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/information/

Exploratorium, San Francisco: http://www.exploratorium.edu/

Franklin Institute: http://www2.fi.edu/

Graceland: http://www.elvis.com/

Hood Museum of Art: http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/

Jane Addam’s Hull House Museum: http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/

Maryland Historical Society: http://www.mdhs.org/

Memorial Hall Museum and Library: http://pvma.wordpress.com/about/memorial-hall-museum-and-library/

Mill City Museum (Minnesota Historical Society): http://www.millcitymuseum.org/

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design: http://www.risdmuseum.org/

Museum of Florida History: http://www.museumoffloridahistory.com/

Museum of Jurassic Technology: http://www.mjt.org/

Museum of the City of New York: http://www.mcny.org/

National Children’s Museum, Washington, DC: http://www.ncm.museum/

New York Hall of Science: http://www.nysci.org/

Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum: http://www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org/

Ontario Science Centre: http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/

Peabody Essex Museum: http://www.pem.org/

Salt Lake City Art Center: http://www.slartcenter.org/

South Street Seaport Museum: http://www.southstreetseaportmuseum.org/

Tenement Museum: http://www.tenement.org/