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Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Kentucky Historical Society was formed in 1836 with the goal of preserving the history of the commonwealth. In 1838, it was chartered as the state society and began to collect items reflecting Kentucky’s history including printed materials and books. By the early 1950s, the Kentucky Historical Society became an agency of the Kentucky state government. The mission of the Kentucky Historical Society is to engage people in the exploration of the commonwealth’s heritage. The Society looks to accomplish this through educational programs, the continuation of their museum, and the preservation of items of Kentucky history.
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Subject: Kentucky, Historic Preservation, Governors, Historical museums , Education
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Atlanta History Center was founded by the Atlanta Historical Society, which considered preserving the history of Atlanta as their top priority. The Atlanta History Center looks to promote the history of Atlanta through living-history projects, lectures, and the history center is one of the largest museums in the country. Along with the history museum, the Atlanta History Center also operates three other historic homes and produces exhibits to promote the history.
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Subject: Atlanta History Museum, Historical sites, Historical museums , Gardens, Outreach Programs, Exhibitions, Georgia
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Blue Ridge Institute and Museum was created by Ferrum College in the early 1970s to document, interpret, and represent the folk heritage of the Blue Ridge region. The Institute enjoys a national reputation and puts on festivals, concerts, and exhibits as well as produces publications. The Institute puts on major programming including: The Blue Ridge Folklife Festival, BRI Museum Exhibits, the Blue Ridge Farm Museum, and The Blue Ridge Heritage Archives. The audience of this institute spans all ages and backgrounds and seeks to expand its work throughout Virginia and Appalachia but still focuses on the western portion of the state.
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Subject: Folk Festivals, Archives, Folk Music, Historical museums , Folklife Archives, Folk Art, Folk Museums
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is built around three values of relevance, stewardship, and authenticity to ensure the preservation of the history and environment of the Chesapeake Bay. The Museum was founded in 1965 on Navy Point. The collection of the Museum includes more than 10,000 printed volumes and 85 boats, six of which are floating displays for the museum. Through the collections housed here, the Museum looks to encourage the public to realize the relevancy of the Chesapeake Bay area and explore the history of the region.
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Subject: Bays, Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.), Historical museums , Maritime life, Maritime museums
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The New Jersey Historical Society is a state-wide, private, nonprofit historical museum, library, and archives dedicated to collecting, preserving and interpreting the rich and intricate political, social, cultural and economic history of New Jersey to the broadest possible audiences. This society was founded in 1845 and is the oldest cultural institution in the state. This society looks to examine who the people of New Jersey are and what it means to be a member of the state of New Jersey. As a historical society and museum, this organization seeks to promote exploration of the cultures of New Jersey as well as its past and present.
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Subject: New Jersey, History societies, etc., Cultural History, Ethnographic Archives, Historical museums , Educational materials, Genealogy
Creator: The New Jersey Historical Society
Publisher: The New Jersey Historical Society
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Missouri History Museum wants to deepen the understanding of past choices, present circumstances, and future possibilities of Missouri. The history museum looks to help foster the bonds of community and facilitate solutions to common problems. The Missouri History Museum adopted six core values in 2001: civil society, empathy, inspiration, integrity, remembrance, and stewardship. The Missouri History Museum also looks to use exhibits to display the past of Missouri.
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Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation conserves, interprets and develops historical, cultural and recreational resources throughout western Pennsylvania. Through the artifacts of the “Big Steel” era the story of these eight counties is easily told and the culture of the area can be seen in the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area that has a museum, tours of the area, and produces historical events to engage the public. Rivers of Steel also seeks to link the colonial era of this region and the present day and future economic and cultural life of the region. This is done through resource preservation and economic revitalization projects.
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Subject: Pennsylvania, Historic Preservation, Steel, Research Grants, Historical museums , Travel
Creator: Rivers of Steel
Publisher: Little Kelpie
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