Living History Museums - I would think Greenfield
Village and Colonial Williamsburg would be amoung the
firsts.  Both museums began in the 1920s.

Terrilyn

--- Hugh Genoways <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues
> 
> Questions about History of Museums
> 
> We all have heard of Peale's museum in Philadelphia,
> the Charleston 
> Museum, Silliman's mineralogy collection at Yale,
> Academy of Natural 
> Sciences of Philadelphia, and a little later P. T
> Barnum's and Moses 
> Kimball's proprietary museums in New York and
> Boston, but I have some 
> questions about the early history of other museums
> and types of museums 
> in the United States.
> 
> What was the first art museum in the U. S.?
> 
> What is the longest operating art museum in the U.
> S. that is still 
> open?
> 
> What was the first history museum in the U. S.?
> 
> What is the longest operating history museum in the
> U. S. that is still 
> open?
> 
> What was the first state historical society in the
> U. S.?
> 
> What was the first historic house museum in the U.
> S.?  (Not the oldest 
> house that is now a museum, but the first to be
> operated as a museum)
> 
> What is the longest operating historic house museum
> in the U. S. that 
> is still open?
> 
> What was the first specialty museum in the U. S.? 
> What was its 
> specialty?
> 
> What is the longest operating specialty museum in
> the U. S. that is 
> still open?  What was its specialty?
> 
> What was the first sports museum in the U. S.?
> 
> What is the longest operating sport museum in the U.
> S. that is still 
> open?
> 
> What was the first living history museum in the U.
> S.?
> 
> What is the longest operating living history museum
> in the U. S. that 
> is still open?
> 
> What was the first botanical garden in the U. S.?
> 
> What is the longest operating botanical garden in
> the U. S. that is 
> still open?
> 
> What was the first arboretum in the U. S.?
> 
> What is the longest operating arboretum in the U. S.
> that is still open?
> 
> What was the first zoological garden in the U. S.?
> 
> What is the longest operating zoological garden in
> the U. S. that is 
> still open?
> 
> What was the first anthropology/archaeology museum
> in the U. S.?
> 
> What is the longest operating
> anthropology/archaeology museum in the U. 
> S. that is still open?
> 
> What was the first military museum in the U. S.?
> 
> What is the longest operating military museum in the
> U. S. that is 
> still open?
> 
> What was the first "hall of fame" museum in the U.
> S.?
> 
> What is the longest operating "hall of fame" museum
> in the U. S. that 
> is still open?
> 
> What was the first college/university museum in the
> U. S.?
> 
> What is the longest operating college/university
> museum in the U. S. 
> that is still open?
> 
> What was the first mineralogy museum in the U. S.?
> 
> What is the longest operating mineralogy museum in
> the U. S. that is 
> still open?
> 
> What was the first natural history museum in the U.
> S.?
> 
> What is the longest operating natural history museum
> in the U. S. that 
> is still open?
> 
> What was the first transportation museum in the U.
> S.?
> 
> What is the longest operating transportation museum
> in the U. S. that 
> is still open?
> 
> What was the first medical museum in the U. S.?
> 
> What is the longest operating medical museum in the
> U. S. that is still 
> open?
> 
> I am not certain what the person with the most
> correct answers will 
> receive, but it definitely will be something
> special!
> 
> Actually, I ask these questions because I don't know
> the answers to 
> most of them.  It seems surprising to me that a
> profession that is so 
> much involved with history doesn't know much about
> its own history.  Or 
> maybe I am the one that doesn't know these things.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Hugh
> 
> 
> Hugh H. Genoways
> Professor
> W436 Nebraska Hall
> University of Nebraska-Lincoln
> Lincoln, NE 68588-0514
> 
>
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