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The Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia is the biggest open air museum in the Shenandoah Valley. The museum operates on 188 acres of land in Staunton, Virginia, [1] which includes approximately 1.8 miles of paved walking trails. The museum features eleven exhibits, eight of which are working farms displaying the daily life of those who ...
American West Heritage Center, [13] Wellsville; Wheeler Historic Farm, [14] Murray; Virginia. Chippokes State Park, Surry; Claude Moore Colonial Farm, McLean; Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg [15] Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, Staunton; Matthews Living History Farm Museum, Independence [16] Washington. Pomeroy Living History Farm ...
The West as America, Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820–1920 was an art exhibition organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (then known as the National Museum of American Art, or NMAA) in Washington, D.C. in 1991, featuring a large collection of paintings, photographs, and other visual art created during the period from 1820 to 1920 which depicted images and iconography of ...
This list of museums in Virginia, United States, contains 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.
The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
This list of museums in North Dakota, United States, is a list of museums, 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.
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) is located in Fort Worth, Texas, in the city's cultural district.The museum's permanent collection features paintings, photography, sculpture, and works on paper by leading artists working in the United States and its North American territories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Museums portal; United States portal; Museums accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.. AAM Accreditation is the museum field's primary vehicle for quality assurance, self-regulation, and public accountability, and earns national recognition for a museum for its commitment to excellence in all that it does: governance, collections stewardship, public programs, financial stability, high ...