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Virginia
Strasburg
Museum of American Presidents
130 North Massanutten
Strasburg VA 22657
Phone 540 465-5999
Web Site www.waysideofva.com
E-mail
wayside@shentel.net
Description collection of presidential memorabilia
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus President
Nature of Group or Site Government |
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Virginia
Virginia Beach
Atlantic Wildfowl Heritage Museum
1113 Atlantic Avenue
Virginia Beach VA 23451
Phone 757 437-8432
Web Site
Description
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum |
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Virginia
Virginia Beach
East Coast Surf Museum
Address
Virginia Beach VA
Phone 804 721-3148
Web Site http://www.pinn.net/~saltaire/surfmuseum/
E-mail
saltaire@pinn.net
Description
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Sports
Field of Study/Science Facility Surfing |
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Virginia
Yorktown
Watermen's Museum
309 Water Street
PO Box 531
Yorktown VA 23690
Phone 757 887-2641
Web Site http://www.watermens.org/
Description Indoor & outdoor exhibits on the local fishing industry
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Maritime
Collection N-Z Models |
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VT
Colchester
Vermont
Veterans Militia Museum & Library
Camp Johnson
Colchester VT 05446
Phone
802 338-0360
Alt
Phone
802 654-0360
Web Site
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Alt Web
http://www.vmga.org/chittenden/militia.html
Description
Type
of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary
Focus
Military
Research
/Reading
Library
New
or Updated: 10/17/2004
VT
East Fairfield
Chester
A Arthur Birthplace
VT 36 & 108
East Fairfield
VT
05448
Phone
802 828-3051
Web Site
http://www.dhca.state.vt.us/HistoricSites/html/arthur.html
E-mail
mailto:john.dumville@state.vt.us%20
Description
reconstructed parsonage which marked Arthur's
birth stands next to original
church
where his father was pastor
Type
of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary
Focus
President
Nature
of Group or Site
Government
Industry
/Profession
Politics
New
or Updated:
3/15/2004 |
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Vermont
Glover
Bread and Puppet Theater and Art Museum
753 Heights Road
Box 153
Glover VT 05839
Phone 802 525-3031
Web Site http://www.theaterofmemory.com/art/bread/cheap.html
Alt Web http://vmga.org/essex/breadpupper.html
Description outsized puppets, costumes, artwork from 40 year old politically-oriented theatre
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Kind of Activity Performance
Collection N-Z Puppets |
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Vermont
Manchester
American Museum of Fly Fishing
Route 7A
Box 42
Manchester VT 05254
Phone 802 362-3300
Web Site
Description Hundreds of flies back to the early 1800's, rods, reels, famous fishermen
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Sports
Collection A-F Fishing |
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Vermont
Plymouth
President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site
VT 100A
PO Box 247
Plymouth VT
05056
Phone 802 672-3773
Web Site www.cit.state.vt.us/dca/historic/hp_sites.htm
Description much of this small town where Calvin Coolidge was raised is preserved in an
earlier era
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus President
Nature of Group or Site Government
Field of Study/Science Facility Politics
VT
Proctor
Vermont Marble
Museum
52 Main Street
PO Box 607
Proctor VT 05765
Phone
802 459-2300
Web Site
http://www.vermont-marble.com/
E-mail
mailto:info@vermont-marble.com
Description
sculptures, geology, quarrying, famous buildings
made with Vermont marble
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus
Industrial
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Geology
Collection N-Z
Sculpture
New or Updated:
6/21/2004
Vermont
Windsor
American Precision Museum Association, Inc
196 Main Street
Windsor VT 05089
Phone 802 674-5781
Web Site http://www.americanprecision.org/Whatis.html
E-mail mailto:apm@sover.net
Description 1846 brick factory shows machinery and machine tools from the Robbins & Lawrence Armory
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Industrial
Building Type Factory
Era 19th |
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WA
Anacortes
W T
Preston Sternwheel Snagboat
703 R Avenue
Anacortes
WA 98221
Phone
360 293-1915
Web Site
http://www.anacorteshistorymuseum.org/preston.html
E-mail
mailto:museum@cityofanacortes.org
Description
dry berthed snagboat that worked to keep the
rivers clear for 40 years
Type
of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary
Focus
Maritime
New
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3/10/2004 |
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WA
Arlington
Air Station
Aviation History
18008 59th Ave NE
Arlington WA
98223
Phone
360 403-9352
Web Site
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Alt Web
http://www.snohomish.org/activity/museums.html
Description
located at Arlington Airport
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus
Aviation
New
or Updated:
5/20/2004
WA
Auburn
Washington Banana
Museum
253 833-8043
Auburn
WA
Phone
253 833-8043
Web Site
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Description
4000 banana related items collected by one
woman. Appointment only
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus
Agricultural
Collection N-Z
Postcards
New or Updated:
5/25/2004 |
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Washington
Bellevue
Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art
1116 108th Avenue NE
Bellevue WA 98004
Phone 425 455-1116
Web Site www.dollart@dollart.com
Description preservation and
exhibition of dolls as an art form
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Collection A-F Dolls |
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Washington
Bellingham
American Museum of Radio
1312 Bay Street
Bellingham WA 98225
Phone
Web Site http://www.antique-radio.org/home_content.shtml
Description radios, televisions, recording devices -- many available for handling and playing
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Technology
Industry /Profession Telecommunication |
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Washington
Bremerton
Bremerton Naval Museum
130 Washington Avenue
Bremerton WA 98337
Phone 360 479-7447
Web Site www.apptechsys.com/kmag/NavalMuseum.htm
Description
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Maritime
WA
Bremerton
Bremerton
Historical Ships
300 Washington Beach Avenue
PO Box 903
Bremerton
WA
98310
Phone
360 792-2457
Web Site
http://www.destroyersonline.com/usndd/museum/dd951mus.html
E-mail
mailto:dd951@sinclair.net
Alt Web
http://hnsa.org/ships/turnerjoy.htm
Description
Home of USS Turner Joy, last destroyer of its
type
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus
Maritime
Building
Type
Ship
New or Updated:
6/1/2004 |
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Washington
Fairchild AFB
Fairchild Heritage Museum
106 East Bong Street
Fairchild AFB WA 99011
Phone 509 244-0244
Web Site www.aafes.com/conus_wer/fairchild/index.html
Description
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Aviation |
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Washington
Long Beach
World Kite Museum & Hall of Fame
112 3rd Street NW
Box 964
Long Beach WA 98631
Phone 360 642-4020
Web Site www.worldkitemuseum.com
Description 2500 years of Kites - art, history, and science
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Nature of Group or Site Hall of Fame |
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Washington
Moses Lake
Schiffner Military & Police Museum
Address
Moses Lake WA
Phone
Web Site www.utahmuseums.org/uma.html
Description
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Nature of Group or Site Association
Industry /Profession
Law Enforcement
WA
Palouse
Roy M
Chatters Boomerang Newspaper & Printing Muse
Address
Palouse
WA
Phone
509 878-1842
Alt Phone
509 878-1742
Web Site
http://www.wsu.edu/~sarek/wchs-printmusem.html
E-mail
mailto:boomeran@palouse.com
Description
printing museum, based on equipment of Palouse
Republic, retired in
1974, with
collection of newspapers - by appt only
Type of
Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary
Focus
Industrial
Industry
/Profession
Printing
Research
Newspapers
New or
Updated: 5/2/2006
WA
Pullman
Jacklin
Collection
122 Webster Hall
Pullman
WA
Phone
509 335-3009
Web Site
http://www.wsu.edu/NIS/LibrariesandMuseums.html
Description
2000 cut and polished pieces of petrified wood
Type of
Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary
Focus
Natural History
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Fossils
New or
Updated:
12/22/2005
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Washington
Seattle
Experience Music Project
325 5th Avenue North
Seattle Center
Seattle WA 98109
Phone
Web Site www.emplive.com
Description rock and roll museum with an attitude - huge video screen, memorabilia
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Entertainment
Industry /Profession MusicGeneral Petroleum Museum
1526 Bellevue Avenue
Seattle WA 98122
Phone 206 323-4789
Web Site
Description the automobile wouldn't have become so central to society without the gas station. Learn about gas pumps and selling gasoline here
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Automotive
WA
Seattle
Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum
1605S 93rd
Building E-D
Seattle
WA
98108
Phone
206
764-9453
Web Site
http://www.thunderboats.org/links.shtml
E-mail
mailto:support@thunderboats.org
Description
Documents,
films, memorabilia, restored racing craft
Type of
Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus
Sports
Primary Focus Ship
New or Updated:
07/29/2003
Living Museum of Letterpress Printing
2017 2nd Avenue
Seattle WA 98121
Phone 206 441-4243
Web Site BROKEN http://www.speakeasy.org/~eoeleven/a.aboutmuseum.html
E-mail arm@speakeasy.org
Description
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Industry /Profession PrintingMuseum of Flight
9404 East Marginal Way S
Seattle WA 98108
Phone 206 764-5720
Web Site www.cyberspace.com/mbrunk/flight.html
Description
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Aviation
U Washington Fish Collection
Address
Seattle WA
Phone
Web Site http://artedi.fish.washington.edu/
Description
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Nature of Group or Site Animals |
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Washington
Spokane
Carr's One of a Kind
5225 N Freya St
Spokane WA 99217
Phone 509 489-8859
Web Site
Description a little of this and a little of that,
includes several autos owned or used by celebrities
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Automotive
Washington
Toppenish
American Hop Museum
22 South B Street
Toppenish WA 98948
Phone 509 865-4677
Web Site www.americanhopmuseum.org
Description beer ingredient's American history, equipment
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Industry /Profession Beverage
Washington
Vancouver
Pearson Air Museum
1115 East 5th Street
Vancouver WA 98661
Phone 360 694-7026
Web Site www.pearsonairmuseum.org/
Description
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Aviation |
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01/12/2008 |
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