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The New Children's Museum is a new model of children's museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity and critical thinking in children and families through inventive and engaging experiences with contemporary art. We encourage and empower children to think, play and create through interactive exhibitions, engaging art-making activities, captivating artistic performances and education opportunities.

The Sankofa Children’s Museum of African Cultures, Inc. aims to educate, inspire and connect children from all walks of life to the vast physical and cultural diversity of the African continent. They want to promote world understanding through engagement with art, cultures, the geography and history of Africa’s myriad diversities and its many great contributions to society as a whole.

This Corporation is organized and is to be operated exclusively for educational and scientific purposes, including, but without derogating from the generality of the forgoing: (a) Collecting and preserving historical data, materials and equipment, pertaining to railroads of al kinds, and wherever situated with special emphasis on those railroads serving the State of South Carolina and the Southeastern United States; (b) organizing, maintaining, and supporting an operating transportation museum

The Big Imagination Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We incubate bold, visionary projects that inspire the world to dream big. Our projects don’t fit into boxes. They rely on radical collaboration and community support. They provide opportunities for education and participation. They are experiences open to everyone. If we dream big, we can make the impossible possible.

Exhibits demonstrate a timeline of history beginning with the villages of the Seewee Indians and the settlement at Jamestown, S.C. by the French Huguenots, through the rice planting on the Santee River plantations and the establishment of the Town of McClellanville as a coastal resort. Displays also tell of the simple lifestyle of the postwar farmer, the rise of timber harvesting in the 20th Century and the growth of the local seafood industry. The museum attempts to educate its visitors as well as entertain them.

THE MISSION OF THE ILLINOIS RAILWAY MUSEUM IS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AS TO OUR NATION'S RAILROAD AND RAILWAY HISTORY BY COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND RESTORING ROLLING STOCK, ARTIFACTS, STRUCTURES, AND RELATED TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT FOR DISPLAY TO THE PUBLIC; EXHIBITING AND OPERATING RESTORED ROLLING STOCK AND EQUIPMENT ON A DEMONSTRATION RAIL LINE; AND COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND MAINTAINING A REFERENCE LIBRARY OF PUBLICATIONS, TECHNICAL INFORMATION, AND OTHER MATERIALS REGARDING RAILROADS, RAILWAYS, AND RELATED FORMS OF TRANSPORTATION FOR RESEARCH AND OTHER PURPOSES.

The Carriage Museum of America, located at the Kentucky Horse Park, is an educational institution which functions primarily as a research library dedicated to preserving the history of the carriage era. The CMA Library maintains a collection of approximately 1,500 books and trade catalogs, in addition to a large collection of prints, photographs, carriage blueprints, trade journals, and other resources. The CMA exists to use its world-class library and panel of experts to serve the carriage community.

The Army Women’s Foundation is the premier center for educational excellence, the national network for today’s Army women and a dynamic advocate for telling the history of Army women. The Army Women’s Foundation is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization originally established in 1969. The mission of the U.S. Army Women’s Foundation is to promote public interest in the Army and the women who serve in the Army. Through programs, research and scholarships, the Foundation recognizes and honors the service of Army women and supports the U.S. Army Women’s Museum located at Fort Lee, Virginia.

Mission Statement: The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History provides learning opportunities, exhibitions, programs and events based on collections and research that explore the diverse history and culture of African Americans and their African origins. Vision Statement: The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History strives to be a world-renowned history museum with outstanding collections and research used to produce innovative exhibits that celebrate significant events and accomplishments of African Americans. Core Values: Integrity: We will say what we do and do what we say Respect:  The key to our success is to value the contribution of each employee in the pursuit of our mission Communication: We will present our opinions, listen to others, and ask for clarification to reach a common understanding Education: To educate our customers in a way that is meaningful to them, we will continue to enhance our knowledge of African American history and job competency Teamwork: We are committed, individually and collectively to the Museum’s mission, and will work in a collaborative manner to ensure its accomplishment Customer Commitment: We will provide our customers with an experience that exceeds their expectations Stewardship: We will value, preserve and effectively manage the financial and non-financial assets that have been entrusted to our care

from the website: "The Golden Age Air Museum's … mission is to entertain visitors and educate them about the early days of aviation, through its special events and daily operations. The museum offers the chance to explore the past, come and learn how the early aviators flew, what they flew and learn the lost art of early aircraft construction. Museum displays include full size operational aircraft and automobiles, as well as displays of artifacts from the Golden Age. Craftsmen are continually working on restoring new additions for the collection, this work is done in view of visitors. Talk with the restoration volunteers and learn techniques and practices of early aircraft builders."

Our mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers and active citizens through Design, Make, Play — an approach to learning that encourages hands-on experimentation, critical thinking, and iterative problem-solving. Through Design, Make, Play, NYSCI aspires to create a distinctive set of resources that have a measurable and scalable impact on how people learn. The museum anchors and inspires all the work we do, fostering public engagement in STEM, and supporting our youth development program, education offerings and research. We have developed innovative products to extend this learning far beyond our walls, and our extensive network of partnerships deepens and broadens our impact, locally and around the world.

Open to the public since October 20, 2003, the Nasher Sculpture Center is one of the few institutions in the world devoted to the exhibition, study, and preservation of modern sculpture. Conceived as a serene urban retreat for the enjoyment of modern art, the Sculpture Center is the new home of the renowned Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection of modern and contemporary sculpture.The collection – which numbers more than three hundred sculptures together with twentieth-century paintings and drawings – rotate in thematic installations throughout the Center's seamless blend of indoor and outdoor exhibition spaces: an elegant, light-filled 55,000 ft building designed by Renzo Piano and a spacious garden created by Peter Walker.Special exhibitions drawn from other sources are presented, contributing to the Center's mission of examining as thoroughly as possible the primary forces shaping the history of sculpture since the late nineteenth century. The Sculpture Center complements its ongoing rotation of exhibitions with a variety of public programs and scholarly and educational initiatives. Through successive installations, audiences encounter the collection's remarkable breadth as well as its deep strengths and the exciting ways that it connects the creative energy of those artists represented to our daily lives.