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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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