Museums

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

This great example of a Victorian museum claims to be the oldest purpose-built museum in the UK.

A 28-exhibit museum about the history, culture, and oddities of money. Visitors stand in a cash shower, try to crack a vault, and discover what it's like to barter when no money is allowed.

A remarkable collection of the machines which this industrial city was dependent upon for both commerce and domestic life.

An art museum dedicated to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, but it is by no means restricted to her work.

This Victorian mansion is part heritage museum, part architectural oddity, and part ghost story.

The museum displays the life work of the great clown spanning a career of 70 years in movies, television, radio and his paintings.

A small-town Nebraska museum is home to thousands of handmade clown dolls.

A fur trade museum in western Nebraska stands on the reconstructed footprint of a 19th-century trading post.

It's a breathing museum, where you get to breathe along with stunning immersive textile light art.

Learn about the neighborhood founded by the last people ever brought to the United States by the Atlantic Slave Trade, still inhabited by their descendants.

A small, but very well curated, museum of cars, propaganda, and toys of socialist Bulgaria.

This museum celebrates dogs through unusual stories from their owners.

A hangar at Marathon Key’s airport is now an ode to aviation history.

The largest interactive exhibition in the U.S. exploring human history through the lens of power, punishment, and psychology.

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