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Our mission is to share, educate, and inspire visitors with exhibits centered around 1950s postwar popular culture themes, including classic cars, the rise of rock and roll, radio, and the pastimes of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s that captivated America. Through this tangible display of "American Graffiti" culture, visitors will experience immersive exhibits, including replica storefronts and multimedia displays.
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, Education & Cultural Center is dedicated to connecting people with 20,000 years of ongoing American Indian cultural expression. The Museum embraces cultural diversity and encourages responsible environmental action based on respect for Nature. Through exhibitions and programs, the Museum seeks to challenge and inspire all of us to improve the quality of our lives and our world.
USCHS is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501(c)(3)organization chartered by Congress to educate the public about the Capitol and the Congress. It does this through programs that focus on landmark legislation that has shaped our nation, on the remarkable art in the Capitol that is based on uniquely American images, on the cultural and ethnic diversity of the Congress, and on other topics that help bring our history and government alive.
The organization preserves and interprets the Hartford home of Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), presenting his life, works, and the Clemens family collections through guided house tours, exhibitions, educational programs, and public events. Its work aims to foster appreciation of Twain’s literary legacy and make his relevance to American culture and contemporary issues accessible to students and visitors.
Connecting art to life. To achieve its mission, the Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block preserves and interprets its collections of the Art of Latin America, Art of the American West, and Modern and Contemporary Art; cares for and interprets five significant El Presidio historic properties; and produces related exhibitions, education programs, and publications which expand understanding and appreciation of these unique community resources.
Mission They inspire people from every background to connect to Czech and Slovak history and culture. Vision They are a museum that celebrates life. Czech life. Slovak life. American life. They are a museum that encourages self-discovery, a museum that asks what it means to be free. Through extraordinary exhibitions and experiences, they tell stories of freedom and identity, family and community, human rights and dignity. Their stories connect yesterday with today and tomorrow.
The Mission Statement of the Pan Am Museum Foundation, “to educate, celebrate,and inspire present and future generations by preserving historical and diverse personal stories of Pan American World Airways,” shows its commitment to inclusivity, diversity, and equity. The Pan Am Museum Foundation was formed in August of 2015 as a not-for-profit registered 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to preserving Pan Am's legacy. The Museum opened to the public in 2016 in Garden City, New York.
The Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art preserves and presents elements of art and nature that highlight the extraordinary beauty of the Brandywine region in Pennsylvania and Delaware.Brandywine ConservancyThe Brandywine Conservancy protects and conserves the land, water, natural, and cultural resources of the Brandywine-Christina watershed.Brandywine River Museum of ArtThe Brandywine River Museum of Art engages audiences through its presentation and interpretation of American art with a particular focus on the Wyeth family and other artists of the Brandywine region.
The mission of the Skirball Cultural Center is to explore the connections between four thousand years of Jewish heritage and the vitality of American democratic ideals. The Skirball welcomes and seeks to inspire people of every ethnic and cultural identity. Guided by memories and experiences, the Skirball aspires to build a society in which all can feel at home. The Skirball presents the experience of the Jewish people - their traditions, aspirations, and values - as a metaphor for the many immigrant groups that journey to America, strengthening the multicultural fabric of this society.
MOCA’s mission as an educational and cultural institution is to present and preserve the range of living history, heritage, culture, and experiences of Chinese Americans through exhibitions, educational services, public programs, and archival work. It began in 1980 as a grassroots effort with a team of students, community activists and historians to preserve the history of New York City’s Chinatown. The museum has since grown to be a leading cultural institution for the history of the Chinese in America and is recognized as one of 20 national institutions as America’s Cultural Treasures.
The Edward S. Curtis/Sacred Legacy Museum will bring the Sacred Legacy of beauty, heart and spirit to the world in ways that Curtis and his Native friends could never have imagined. It would also establish a single source facility for research on Curtis’s body of work. It will create increased understanding of and appreciation for, the beauty of the natural world, her diversity and to honor the inclusion of all peoples. The Christopher G. Cardozo/Edward S. Curtis Collection will be the foundation of the Museum. We hope to be open in 2018 – the sesquicentennial of Curtis’s birth. I believe The Museum will be a significant cultural, artistic, and economic asset for the city in which it is ultimately located. Launching in Seattle with two events through my colleague and dear friend, Cynthia Alexander.
Founded in 1979, the Arizona Memorial Museum Association (AMMA) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the protection, development, preservation, education and interpretation at the USS Arizona Memorial and affiliated Pacific area historic parks. AMMA is a "Cooperating Association" designated to work with the National Park Service in support of three National Park units in the Pacific: the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the Kalaupapa National Historical Park on Molokai, Hawaii, the War in the Pacific National Historical Park in Guam and its related site at the American Memorial Park in Saipan.