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This list of museums in Nebraska encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Boys Town, Nebraska. Boys Town was founded on December 12, 1917, [1] as an orphanage for boys. Originally known as "The City of Little Men", the organization was begun by Edward J. Flanagan, a Roman Catholic priest, while he worked in the Diocese of Omaha.
More than 1,100 properties and districts in Nebraska are on the National Register of Historic Places. Of these, 20 are National Historic Landmarks. There are listings in 90 of the state's 93 counties. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 17, 2025. [1]
National Monuments, National Historic Sites, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs per se. There are two of these in Nebraska.
Location of Otoe County in Nebraska. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Otoe County, Nebraska.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Otoe County, Nebraska, United States.
U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough joined local elected officials and leaders from veterans organizations in ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The Mormon Trail Center at Winter Quarters is a museum and visitors' center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in the Florence neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The museum interprets the story of the Mormon Trail along with the history of a temporary Mormon settlement known as Winter Quarters , which was ...
The park is a National Historic Landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1969. [ 3 ] The 52-room neo-colonial house began in 1855 for J. Sterling Morton , originator of Arbor Day and Secretary of Agriculture in the 1890s under President Grover Cleveland .