town museum
Community history building
A town museum is a local institution preserving and displaying artifacts, photographs, and documents related to a particular town's history and heritage.
These modest museums typically occupy historic buildings and are staffed largely by volunteers: The town museum has an exhibit on the old railroad depot.
They serve as repositories of community memory—school photos, farming equipment, founding documents.
- curationSelective organization of items
- gift shopStore selling mementos
- period costumesEra-appropriate theatrical clothing
- oral historyRecorded interviews about the past
- exhibitionPublic display of items
archiving · local crafts · display · historical reenactments · landmarks · walking tour · genealogy · workshops · local history · gallery · visitor services · school field trip · founding fathers · historical figures · case · civic · relic · Victorian
- museumsmuseums, art museums, exhibits, galleries, exhibitions
- local museumsheritage center
- local art venues
- heritage sitesWorld Heritage Site, historic landmarks, Machu Picchu, monument, cultural landmarks
town museumprivate collection
Items owned, not exhibited
personal archive · traveling exhibition · pop-up gallery · auction house · antique shop