Museums in North America Canada Serbian Heritage Museum, Windsor, Ontario -- http://members.tripod.com/swo_heritage/serbian.htm United States New England States Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, MA -- http://www.museumofrussianicons.org/ Mid-Atlantic States American Latvian Association, Rockville, MD -- http://www.alausa.org/ This site includes a link to Latvian museums in the United States. Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA -- http://www.warhol.org/ Czech Center, New York, NY -- http://new-york.czechcentres.cz/ Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Washington, DC-- http://www.doaks.org/ Located
in a quiet corner of Georgetown, the Dumbarton Oaks Museum has an
excellent collection of Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art. It also has a
remarkable garden with landscape exhibitions. It is an institute of
Harvard University. Meetings held at Dumbarton Oaks in 1944 led to the
creation of the United Nations. Greek Museum, Center for Greek American Heritage, New York, NY -- http://www.thegreekmuseum.com/ National Building Museum, Washington, DC -- http://www.nbm.org/ National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA, -- http://www.nmajh.org/ Polish American Cultural Center, Philadelphia, PA -- http://www.polishamericancenter.org/ Romanian Museum, Philadelphia, PA -- http://www.romanianculture.us/ Smithsonian -- http://www.si.edu/
Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC -- http://www.ushmm.org/
Midwest States Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, Chicago, IL -- http://www.lithaz.org/museums/balzekas/ Croatian Heritage Museum and Library, Eastlake, OH -- http://www.croatianmuseum.com/ German Heritage Museum, Cincinnati, OH -- http://www.cincinnatiusa.com/attractions/detail.asp?AttractionID=46 Hungarian Heritage Museum, Cleveland, OH -- http://www.jcu.edu/language/hunghemu/ Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, MN -- http://tmora.org/ National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library, Cedar Rapids, IA -- http://www.ncsml.org/ National Hellenic Museum, Chicago, IL -- http://www.333southhalsted.org/ or http://www.nationalhellenicmuseum.org/ National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, OH -- http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/ Click on http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/full/tour-std.html for an amazing virtual tour of the museum, which includes
aircraft from various countries during the Second World War and from
the Soviet Union during the cold war. Ukrainian Museum, New York, NY -- http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ The Ukrainian Museum's newsletter, which contains information about exhibits, lectures, films, and more, is at http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/news.html. Romanian Museum, Cleveland, OH -- http://www.clevelandpeople.com/groups/romanian/romanian-museum.htm Slovenian Museum and Archive, Cleveland, OH -- http://www.smacleveland.org/ South and Gulf Coast States Historic Pensacola Village, Pensacola, FL -- http://www.historicpensacola.org/ Malbis Plantation Greek Orthodox Church, Malbis, AL -- The church has no website. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbis_Memorial_Church. National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, FL -- http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/ National World War II Museum, New Orleans, LA -- http://www.nationalww2museum.org/index.html Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS -- https://www.georgeohr.org/Default.aspx The museum features the work of the
well-known ceramic artist George E. Ohr (1857-1918), who lived in
Biloxi. The architect for the buildings was the Canadian-American Frank Gehry (born 1929), who was the architect Vlado Milunić (born 1941) for the Dancing House (1992-1996) in Prague, Czech Republic, the Guggenheim Museum (1997) in Bilbao, Spain, and Walt Disney Concert Hall (1999-2003) in Los Angeles. The O’Keefe Family Foundation was the major donor to the museum.
Polasek Museum, Winter Park, FL -- http://polasek.org/ Albín Polášek (1879-1965) was a Czech sculptor who in 1901 emigrated to the United States. University of West Florida, Archaeology Institute, Pensacola, FL -- http://uwf.edu/archaeology/ Western States Hellenic Cultural Museum, Salt Lake City, UT -- http://www.pahh.com/hca/museum.html Internet Carpatho-Rusyn Cultural Center (Internet only) -- http://rusyncenter.blogspot.com/ US Turkish Library and Museum (Internet only) -- http://www.turkishlibrary.us/ |
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