Museums

United Kingdom:

• Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums: http://www.aagm.co.uk
• .Hunterian Museum (Glasgow): http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/
• Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum  (Glasgow)
• National Galleries of Scotland: http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
• National Museums of Scotland: http://www.nms.ac.uk/
• Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives, and Libraries: http://www.mla.gov.uk/
• Scottish Maritime Museum: http://www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org/
  The Museum is sited at three locations: Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine; Clydebuilt at Braehead, Glasgow; and Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank, Dumbarton.
• Scottish Museums Council (SMC): http://www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/
  'The Scottish Museums Council (SMC) is the membership organisation for local museums and galleries in Scotland.' The SMC site contains links to the websites of its hundreds of member museums.
• TAMH: Tayside - A Maritime History: http://www.tamh.org/
  An online museum that covers the history of the East of Scotland (Dundee, Arbroath, Montrose and Perth) and the sea. Contains over 500 searchable articles on geography, trade, whaling, fishing, lifeboats, lighthouses and naval topics. Currently around 7500 records of mariners and their voyages from 1580 onwards

Canada:

• McCord Museum of Canadian History (Montreal): http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/

United States:

• American Family Immigration History Center, Ellis Island: http://www.ellisisland.org/
• Filson Historical Society Museum (Louisville, Kentucky)
  'The Filson's museum, located in the Carriage House behind the Ferguson Mansion, is a self-guided tour through the rich and varied history of Kentucky. The artifacts currently on display include a bighorn sheep horn, the only known verifiable animal artifact brought back by the Lewis and Clark expedition, a mid-nineteenth-century firefighting hand-pumper, Jim Porter's seven-foot-nine-inch smoothbore musket, a genuine Kentucky still, Daniel Boone's famous "Kill a Bar" tree carving, handmade quilts, and various Civil War artifacts. In addition to the museum's historical items, The Filson's art collection, which is displayed in the Ferguson Mansion and the museum, contains one of the most extensive collections of antebellum portraiture in Kentucky. The museum is an important resource for teachers, students, academic researchers, and the general public. Items from its collections are frequently loaned to museums throughout the country for temporary exhibition.'
• Harriet Beecher Stowe Center (Hartford, CT): http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/

Caribbean:

• Barbados Museum & Historical Society: http://barbados.org/barbmus.htm
• The Sugar Museum (Barbados): http://barbados.org/sugarmus.htm. This museum is a permanent record of how sugar was produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The museum now stands a tribute to Sir Frank Hutson, who with assistance from the Barbados National Trust, collected the items in the museum.

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