Some more:
Bartram's Garden, established 1728, botanic garden and museum
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, established 1805, fine arts museum
Wagner Free Institute, incorporated 1855, natural history museum
Mutter Museum, established 1858, medical museum
Peabody Museum, Harvard University, established 1866, anthropology
museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded 1870, fine arts museum
Matthew Kuhnert
Curatorial Associate
National Building Museum
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From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Hugh Genoways
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 5:37 PM
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Subject: Question
>
> Dear Terrilyn:
>
> I find
>
> Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA-1926
>
> The Henry Ford (Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village), Dearborn,
> MI--1929
>
> This makes Colonial Williamsburg the oldest living history museum that
> we have found so far. The Henry Ford must qualify as one of the older
> transportation museums as well.
>
> Sincerely,
> Hugh
>
>
>
>
> On May 5, 2005, at 7:10 AM, Terrilyn Wendling wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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Professor
W436 Nebraska Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0514
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