Nebraska Prairie Museum

This list of museums in Nebraska encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

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Museums

Name	Town/City	County	Region	Type	Summary
100th Meridian Museum	Cozad	Dawson	Central	Local history	^[1]
Adams House and Cook Blacksmith Shop	Ponca	Dixon	Northeast	Local history	Operated by the Ponca Historical Society, early 20th-century period house and restored blacksmith shop^[2]^[3]^[4]
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument	Harrison	Sioux	Nebraska Panhandle	Natural history	Includes fossils and Native American artifacts
American Historical Society of Germans From Russia Cultural Heritage Research Center	Lincoln	Lancaster	Eastern	Open air	website, includes chapel, summer kitchen, barn, general store and blacksmith shop
Angel De Cora Museum and Research Center	Winnebago	Thurston	Northeast	Native American	Facebook site, History and culture of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, includes photos, artwork, arrowheads, beadwork, and musical instruments
Anna Bemis Palmer Museum	York	York	Central	Local history	Located in the York Community Center, includes period rooms and businesses, geology, Native Americans, pioneer days, military and local disasters^[5]
Antelope County Museum	Neligh	Antelope	Eastern	Local history	website, operated by the Antelope County Historical Society, features the main museum, a reproduction log cabin and the Pioneer Church
Arbor Day Farm	Nebraska City	Otoe	Southeast	Natural history	website, family nature discovery center with focus on trees
Arbor Lodge State Historical Park and Arboretum	Nebraska City	Otoe	Southeast	Multiple	Features historic mansion, carriage house with various vehicles, log cabin, arboretum and trails
Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park	Royal	Antelope	Western	Natural history	Operated by the University of Nebraska State Museum, visitor center for ongoing fossil excavations
Bank of Florence Museum	Omaha	Douglas	Eastern	Historic site	Restored pioneer bank with vault and manager's quarters
Banner County Museum	Harrisburg	Banner	Nebraska Panhandle	Open air	Facebook site, includes period rooms, weapons, household items and personal collections, machine shed, sod and log houses, church, general store, schoolhouse, drug store, barn, service station, bank, operated by the Banner County Historical Society
Bartels Museum	Seward	Seward	Southeast	Natural history	Located in the lower level of Link Library of Concordia University, minerals, agate, fossils and rocks^[6]
Bayard Chimney Rock Museum	Bayard	Morrill	Nebraska Panhandle	Local history	information, located in a historic railroad depot
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts	Omaha	Douglas	Eastern	Art	Features 3 main galleries with over 20 exhibitions yearly in all media, including video, installation and performance art
Bess Streeter Aldrich Home and Museum	Elmwood	Cass	Southeast	Biographical	website, two nearby sites, one the 1922-1946 period home and the other a museum with memorabilia of author Bess Streeter Aldrich
Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art	David City	Butler	Southeast	Art	website, art about agriculture
Boneyard Creation Museum	Broken Bow	Custer	Sandhills	Religious	website, Creationist museum
Boone County Historical Society Museum	Albion	Boone	Northeast	Local history	website
Boys Town	Omaha	Douglas	Eastern	Historic site	Includes history hall of the non-profit organization for children and families, restored home of Father Flanagan, stamp museum
Bowring Ranch State Historical Park	Merriman	Cherry	Sandhills	Historic house	Historic working ranch with period home, sod house and visitor center about Eva Bowring, Nebraska's first woman Senator
Brown County Historical Society Museum	Ainsworth	Brown	Sandhills	Local history	Includes the Coleman House, Dixon House and old gas station with antique collections, clothing^[7]
Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park	North Platte	Lincoln	Central	Biographical	Also known as Scout's Rest, home and museum about Buffalo Bill Cody
Burt County Museum	Tekamah	Burt	Eastern	Local history	website, includes two houses with local history and period displays and a one-room schoolhouse
Butler County Veterans Museum	David City	Butler	Southeast	Military	Currently seeking new location^[8]
Butte Community Historical Center and Museum	Butte	Boyd	Central	Local history	^[9]
Cairo Roots Museum	Cairo	Hall	Central	Local history	website, located inside the Cairo Community Center
Cambridge Museum	Cambridge	Furnas	Southwest	Local history	^[10]
Captain Bailey House	Brownville	Nemaha	Southeast	Historic house	website, 19th-century period house, operated by the Brownville Historical Society
Carnegie Arts Center	Alliance	Box Butte	Nebraska Panhandle	Art	website, community arts center
Carson House	Brownville	Nemaha	Southeast	Historic house	website, 19th-century period house, operated by the Brownville Historical Society
Cass County Historical Society Museum	Plattsmouth	Cass	Southeast	Local history	website, exhibits include steamboats, pioneer life, trains, farms, automobiles, telephone and radio, churches and religious life, schools, entertainment, period rooms
Cedar County Historical Museum	Hartington	Cedar	Northeast	Open air	information, includes log cabin, 1900 house, carriage house and exhibit hall with antique machinery and vehicles
Centennial Hall Museum	Valentine	Cherry	Sandhills	Local history	Includes a collection of bells
Champion Mill Park	Champion	Chase	Southwest	Mill	Late 19th-century water-powered mill
Chase County Historical Society Museum	Champion	Chase	Southwest	Local history	information
Cherry County Historical Society Museum	Valentine	Cherry	Sandhills	Local history	information
Children's Museum of Central Nebraska	Hastings	Adams	Central	Children's	website
Chimney Rock National Historic Site	Bayard	Morrill	Nebraska Panhandle	History	Operated by the Nebraska State Historical Society, includes exhibits about pioneers and the migrations in the West
Civil War Veterans Museum at the G.A.R. Memorial Hall	Nebraska City	Otoe	Southeast	Civil War
Classic Car Collection	Kearney	Buffalo	Central	Automobile	website
Clay County Museum	Clay Center	Clay	Central	Local history	Operated by the Clay County Historical Society^[11]
Cody Park Railroad Museum	North Platte	Lincoln	Western	Railroad	information, includes Union Pacific 3977 steam and Union Pacific 6922 diesel locomotives, restored railroad depot, several rail cars and a caboose
Cornelius O'Connor House	Homer	Dakota	Northeast	Historic house	Operated by the Dakota County Historical Society
Corps of Discovery Welcome Center	Crofton	Knox	Northeast	Multiple	View of Gavins Point Dam, geology, exploration, early navigation, settlement and natural history of the Missouri River region, dam construction, website^[12]
Crawford Historical Museum	Crawford	Dawes	Nebraska Panhandle	Local history	website, operated by Crawford Historical Society
Creighton Historical Center	Creighton	Knox		Local history	website
Cuming County Historical Museum	West Point	Cuming	Northeast	Open air	Includes 6 restored buildings, operated by the Cuming County Historical Society, open during the Cuming County Fair and at any time by request^[13]^[14]
Custer County Historical Society Museum	Broken Bow	Custer	Sandhills	Local history	website, includes 19th-century general store and early 20th-century drug store displays
Czechoslovak Museum	Omaha	Douglas	Eastern	Ethnic	Histories of Czechs and Slovaks, open by appointment
Dawes County Historical Museum	Chadron	Dawes	Nebraska Panhandle	Open air	information, includes museum with displays of a general store, hospital room, blacksmith tools, farm machinery, vintage quilts, railroad room and household items, and grounds include a log house and barn, 1890s schoolhouse, pioneer church and caboose
Dawson County Historical Museum	Lexington	Dawson	Central	Multiple	website, local history and art, schoolhouse with agriculture displays, fire truck
Decatur Museum	Decatur	Burt	Northeast	Local History	Operated by the Decatur Historical Committee^[15]
Didier Log Cabin	Brownville	Nemaha	Southeast	Historic house	website, 1854 log cabin, operated by the Brownville Historical Society
Diller Bank Building Museum	Diller	Jefferson	Southeast	Local history	Operated by the Jefferson County Historical Society^[16]
District 10 School	Fairbury	Jefferson	Southeast	School	Operated by the Jefferson County Historical Society^[17]^[16]
Dixon County Museum	Allen	Dixon	Northeast	Local history	Includes local history museum, schoolhouse, railroad building and agriculture machinery building, operated by the Dixon County Historical Society^[18]^[19]
Dobby's Frontier Town	Alliance	Box Butte	Nebraska Panhandle	Open air	website, includes general store, post office, original bootlegger's cabin, baled straw house, bank, saloon, stable, Chinese laundry, gas station
Dowse Sod House	Comstock	Custer	Sandhills	Historic house	Early 20th-century sod house
Dr. Spurgin's Dental Office	Brownville	Nemaha	Southeast	Historic house	website, features antique dental tools and equipment, operated by the Brownville Historical Society
Durham Museum	Omaha	Douglas	Eastern	History	Formerly known as Durham Western Heritage Museum, history of the United States' western region
Edgerton Explorit Center	Aurora	Hamilton	Central	Science	website, hands-on science exhibits
Eisentrager Howard Gallery	Lincoln	Lancaster	Eastern	Art	Part of University of Nebraska–Lincoln, located on the first floor of Richards Hall, exhibits the work of UNL faculty and students^[20]
El Museo Latino	Omaha	Douglas	Eastern	Ethnic	Latino and Hispanic art and history
Eleanor Barbour Cook Museum of Geology	Chadron	Dawes	Nebraska Panhandle	Natural history	website, part of Chadron State College, fossils, rocks, minerals^[21]
Elkhorn Valley Museum	Norfolk	Madison	Northeast	Local history	website, includes Johnny Carson gallery, period displays, changing exhibits and a children's discovery center
Elmwood G.A.R. Hall Veterans Museum	Elmwood	Cass	Southeast	Military	^[22]
Fairbury City Museum	Fairbury	Jefferson	Southeast	Local history	information
Fillmore County Museum	Fairmont	Fillmore	Southeast	Local history	^[23]^[24]
Florence Depot	Omaha	Douglas	Eastern	Railroad	Located in the Florence community
Florence Mill	Omaha	Douglas	Eastern	Local history	Restored flour mill features the Winter Quarters Mill Museum with pioneer history and the ArtLoft Gallery, located in the Florence community
Fort Atkinson State Historical Park	Fort Calhoun	Washington	Eastern	Military	Restored fort with periodic living history demonstrations
Fort Cody Trading Post	North Platte	Lincoln	Western	History	website, store that includes the Buffalo Bill's Miniature Wild West Show, a hand-carved miniature show display, and the Museum of the Old West with weapons, clothing, artifacts and natural history displays
Fort Hartsuff State Historical Park	Burwell	Garfield	Sandhills	Military	Restored fort with seasonal weekend living history demonstrations
Fort Kearny State Historical Park	Kearney	Kearney	Central	Military	Recreated stockade and exhibits about the Oregon Trail
Fort Robinson Museum	Crawford	Dawes	Nebraska Panhandle	Military	Operated by the Nebraska State Historical Society
Fort Sidney Complex	Sidney	Cheyenne	Nebraska Panhandle	Military	Includes the powder house, married officer's quarters which houses the Cheyenne County Museum, and the late 19th-century period Post Commander's home
Franklin County Museum	Franklin	Franklin	Central	Local history	Exhibits include pioneers, Native Americans, military, local citizens, farming, school house and Ol’ Towne which replicates an old West township^[25]^[26]
Freedom Park	Omaha	Douglas	Eastern	Military	Outdoor park with military museum ships and aircraft, features the USS Marlin (SST-2) submarine, USS Hazard (AM-240) minesweeper, rocket launchers, jet fighter and other aircraft
Fullerton Museum	Fullerton	Nance	Northeast	Local history	Operated by the Nance County Historical Society^[27]
Furnas-Gosper County Museum	Arapahoe	Furnas	Southwest	Local history	Operated by the Furnas/Gosper County Historical Society^[28]^[29]
Gage County Museum	Beatrice	Gage	Southeast	Local history	website, housed in the 1906 Burlington Railroad Depot, history of the industries, businesses, medicine, communities and the people, operated by the Gage County Historical Society
Garfield County Historical Museum	Burwell	Garfield	Sandhills	Local history	Period rooms include a library, surgery room, cowboy/Indian room, tool room, military room, parlor, bedroom, country school room, operated by the Garfield County Historical Society^[30]
General Crook House Museum	Omaha	Douglas	Eastern	Historic house	1880s Victorian period home
Genoa Historical Museum	Genoa	Nance	Northeast	Local history	website, includes Pawnee tribal and Mormon Trail exhibits
Genoa U.S. Indian School Museum	Genoa	Nance	Northeast	Education	Former boarding school for Native American youth
George W. Frank House	Kearney	Buffalo	Central	Historic house	Operated by the University of Nebraska at Kearney, 1880s mansion, also features artifacts related to Nebraska and UNK history
Gibbon Heritage Center	Gibbon	Buffalo	Central	Local history	^[31]
Gothenburg Historical Museum	Gothenburg	Dawson	Central	Local history	website, operated by the Gothenburg Historical Society
Grant County Museum	Hyannis	Grant	Sandhills	Local history	Features barbed wire collection^[32]
Graves Library Museum	Wakefield	Dixon	Eastern	Local history	Operated by the Wakefield Heritage Organization, features a large collection of wrenches^[33]
Great Plains Art Museum	Lincoln	Lancaster	Eastern	Art	Part of University of Nebraska–Lincoln, dedicated to the arts of the Great Plains
Great Plains Black History Museum	North Omaha	Douglas	Eastern	African American
Great Plains Welsh Heritage & Culture Centre	Wymore	Gage	Southeast	Ethnic	website, Welsh Americans and Welsh involvement in the U.S. westward expansion
Great Platte River Road Archway Monument	Kearney	Buffalo	Central	History	Nebraska's and the Platte River valley's role in westward expansion
Greeley County Historical Society Courthouse Museum	Greeley	Greeley	Central	Local history	^[34]
Greenwood Depot Museum	Greenwood	Cass	Southeast	Local history	Operated by the Greenwood Historical Society, local and railroad history^[35] Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Nebraska_Prairie_Museum Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia. Navigácia: Veda > Analytika Antropológia Aplikované vedy Bibliometria Dejiny vedy Encyklopédie Filozofia vedy Forenzné vedy Humanitné vedy Knižničná veda Kryogenika Kryptológia Kulturológia Literárna veda Medzidisciplinárne oblasti Metódy kvantitatívnej analýzy Metavedy Metodika Metodológia vedy Náboženstvo a veda Náučná literatúra Podvody vo vede Popularizácia vedy Potravinárstvo Prírodné vedy Pseudoveda Scientometria Spoločenské vedy Teórie Teatrológia Technické vedy Technika Terminológia Umenie Výskum Veda Veda a technika podľa štátu Veda a technika podľa kontinentu Veda a technika podľa roka Veda v kozme Vedci Vedecká literatúra Vedecké databázy Vedecké experimenty Vedecké konferencie Vedecké metódy Vedecké ocenenia Vedecké organizácie Vedecké parky Vedeckí spisovatelia Vzdelávanie Záhady Príbuzné výrazy: Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia. www.astronomia.sk \| www.biologia.sk \| www.botanika.sk \| www.dejiny.sk \| www.economy.sk \| www.elektrotechnika.sk \| www.estetika.sk \| www.farmakologia.sk \| www.filozofia.sk \| Fyzika \| www.futurologia.sk \| www.genetika.sk \| www.chemia.sk \| www.lingvistika.sk \| www.politologia.sk \| www.psychologia.sk \| www.sexuologia.sk \| www.sociologia.sk \| www.veda.sk I www.zoologia.sk

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