This is a list of open-air and living history museums in the United States.
Ecological and environmental living museums
Farm museums Alabama Landmark Park, Dothan
Alaska Alaska Native Heritage Center, Anchorage
California Ardenwood Historic Farm, Fremont, California, Bay Area California Citrus State Historic Park, Riverside Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center, Los Angeles Rileys Farm, Oak Glen, 17th and 18th c. Living History, Revolutionary War, Civil War & Gold RushRiley's Farm Living History Tours Stein Family Farm / National City Living History Farm Preserve, San Diego
Colorado Littleton Museum – The Farms, Littleton Old Town Museum, Burlington
Florida Mission San Luis de Apalachee, Tallahassee Morningside Nature Center, Gainesville Panhandle Pioneer Settlement Living History Museum, BlountstownPanhandle Pioneer Settlement Living History Museum
Georgia Agrirama, Tifton Historic Westville, Columbus
Hawaii Kona Coffee Living History Farm, Kona District
Illinois Blackberry Farm, Aurora Corron Farm, Campton Hills Garfield Farm and Inn Museum, Campton Hills Kline Creek Farm, West Chicago Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site, Charleston Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site, Springfield Naper Settlement, Naperville Peck Farm Park, Geneva Primrose Farm, St. Charles Township Volkening Heritage Farm, Schaumburg Wagner Farm, Glenview, Cook County
Indiana Amish Acres Historic Farm & Heritage Resort, Nappanee Buckley Homestead Living History Farm, Lowell Conner Prairie, Fishers Historic Tunnel Mill, Charlestown Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City Prophetstown State Park, Battle Ground
Iowa Living History Farms, Urbandale Ushers Ferry Historic Village, Cedar Rapids
Kansas Old Cowtown Museum, WichitaOld Cowtown Museum
Kentucky Mountain Homeplace, Staffordsville Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Mercer County
Maine Norlands Living History Center, LivermoreNorlands Living History Center Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, New Gloucester
Maryland Carroll County Almshouse and Farm, Westminster National Colonial Farm, Accokeek Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Hill Farm, Oxon Hill
Massachusetts Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge Pioneer Village, Salem Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Plymouth Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm, Newbury Waters Farm, Sutton Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield
Michigan Colonial Michilimackinac, Mackinaw City, Michigan Greenfield Village, Dearborn White Pine Village, Ludington, Michigan Waterloo Farm Museum
Minnesota Gammelgarden Museum of Scandia Heman Gibbs Farmstead, Falcon Heights The Landing, Shakopee Oliver Kelley Farm, Elk River
Nebraska Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, Grand Island Wessels Living History Farm, York
New Hampshire The Fort at Number 4, Charlestown New Hampshire Farm Museum, Milton Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury Enfield Shaker Museum, Enfield
New Jersey Historic Cold Spring Village, Cape MayHistoric Cold Spring Village Historic Longstreet Farm, Holmdel Fosterfields Living Historical Farm, Morristown Howell Living History Farm, Titusville Liberty Hall (New Jersey) Old Barracks Museum Trenton, New Jersey
New Mexico New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces El Rancho de las Golondrinas, Santa Fe County
New York Erie Canal Village, Rome Fenimore Farm & Country Village, Cooperstown Genesee Country Village and Museum, Mumford Mabee Farm Historic Site, Rotterdam Junction Muscoot Farm, Somers Museum Village, Monroe Old Bethpage Village Restoration, Old Bethpage, Long IslandBethpage Village Queens County Farm Museum, Glen Oaks, Queens, New York City Storm King Art Center, Mountainville Tilly Foster Farm Museum, Brewster
North Carolina Bethabara Historic District, Winston-Salem Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, Flat Rock Clemmons Educational State Forest, Clayton Cradle of Forestry in America, Brevard Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factory, Durham Holmes Educational State Forest, Hendersonville Horne Creek Living Historical Farm, Pinnacle Island Farm, Manteo Jordan Lake Educational State Forest, Apex Latta Plantation, Huntersville Long Valley Farm at Carvers Creek State Park, Spring Lake Rendezvous Mountain State Park, Purlear Turnbull Creek Educational State Forest, Elizabethtown Tuttle Educational State Forest, Lenoir
North Dakota Frederick A. and Sophia Bagg Bonanza Farm, Richland County
Ohio Gorman Heritage Farm, Evendale Hale Farm and Village, Bath Township, Summit County Heritage Village Museum, Sharonville Malabar Farm State Park, Richland County Sauder Village, Archbold Robbins Crossing Historic Village, Nelsonville, Ohio
Oklahoma Hunter's Home, Park Hill, Oklahoma
Oregon B Street Living Permaculture Museum, Pacific UniversityB Street Living Permaculture Museum Dorris Ranch Living History Farm, Springfield Dufur Historical Society Living History Museum, Dufur High Desert Museum, Bend Philip Foster Farm on the Oregon Trail, Eagle Creek Schreiber Log Cabin, Dufur Sherwood Heritage Center, Sherwood
Pennsylvania Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead, Edgmont Township, Delaware CountyPennsylvania Farmstead Deprecation Lands Museum, Hampton Twp. Allegheny County. https://dlmuseum.org/
Rhode Island Casey Farm, Saunderstown Coggeshall Farm Museum, Bristol Watson Farm, Jamestown
South Carolina Kings Mountain State Park, Blacksburg Historic Brattonsville, McConnells, South Carolina
Tennessee Exchange Place – Gaines Preston Farm, Kingsport The Homeplace, Land Between the Lakes Museum of Appalachia, Norris
Texas Barrington Living History Farm, Washington-on-the-Brazos Heritage Farmstead, Plano Nash Farm, Grapevine
Utah This Is the Place Heritage Park, Salt Lake City American West Heritage Center, Wellsville Wheeler Historic Farm, Murray
Virginia Chippokes State Park, Surry Claude Moore Colonial Farm, McLean Colonial Williamsburg, WilliamsburgColonial Williamsburg Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, Staunton Matthews Living History Farm Museum, IndependenceMatthews Living History Farm Museum
Vermont Shelburne Museum, Shelburne
Washington Pomeroy Living History Farm, Yacolt Fort Nisqually Living History Museum, Tacoma Historic Fort Steilacoom, Steilacoom
West Virginia Heritage Farm Museum and Village, Huntington Watters Smith Memorial State Park, Harrison County
Wisconsin Old World Wisconsin, Eagle Stonefield (Wisconsin), Cassville, Wisconsin
Living transportation museums
Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, Vista, San Diego County, California California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, California Cole Palen's Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, Red Hook, New York National Museum of Transportation, St Louis County, Missouri New York Museum of Transportation, Rush, New York North Carolina Transportation Museum, Spencer, North Carolina Railtown 1897 State Historic Park, Jamestown, California San Francisco Cable Car Museum, San Francisco, California Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport, Maine Southern California Railway Museum, Perris, Riverside County, California Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton, Pennsylvania Travel Town Museum, Los Angeles, California Western America Railroad Museum, Barstow, California Western Railway Museum, Solano County, California
Military forts and posts
The list of forts lists both historical, preserved and currently operational military posts. Not all are open to the public. Some of those open to the public will have living history guides.
Battery Gunnison, a US Army Coast Artillery Battery at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, is being restored to its 1943 configuration by the Army Ground Forces Association, a non-profit living history organization, and is open for tours throughout the year.
Renaissance faires
Other open-air and living history museums
Arizona Pioneer Living History Museum, Phoenix Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott
Arkansas Ozark Folk Center, Mountain View
California
Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie Calico Ghost Town, San Bernardino County Casa del Herrero, Montecito Columbia State Historic Park, Columbia Empire Mine State Historic Park, Grass Valley Fort Ross State Historic Park, Fort Ross Hearst Castle State Historic Park, San Simeon Heritage Square Museum, Montecito Heights, Los Angeles La Purísima Mission State Historic Park, Lompoc Leonis Adobe Museum, Calabasas Los Angeles Plaza Historic District, Los Angeles Los Encinos State Historic Park, Encino, Los Angeles Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, Placerville Monterey State Historic Park, Monterey Old Sacramento State Historic Park, Sacramento Riley's Farm & Living History Destination, Oak Glen Rubel Castle, Glendora San Dieguito Heritage Museum, Encinitas San Juan Bautista State Historic Park, San Juan Bautista Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, Chatsworth, Los Angeles Virginia Robinson Gardens, Beverly Hills Watts Towers, Watts, Los Angeles Will Rogers State Historic Park, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles
Colorado Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, Otero County Fort Uncompahgre Living History Museum, Delta Four Mile Historic Park, DenverFour Mile Historic Park Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site, at Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs South Park City, Fairplay Cross Orchards Grand Junction
Connecticut Mystic Seaport, Mystic
Florida Bellevue Plantation, Tallahassee Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine Cracker Country, Tampa Fort Clinch State Park, Amelia Island Lake Kissimmee State Park, Lake Wales Mission San Luis de Apalachee, Tallahassee Silver River Museum, Marion County Yesteryear Village, on the South Florida Fairgrounds, Palm Beach County
Georgia Westville, Lumpkin
Hawaii Kona Coffee Living History Farm, Kona District Polynesian Cultural Center, Lā'ie
Illinois Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site, Charleston Lincoln's New Salem, Menard County Macktown Living History Education Center, Rockton Midway Village Museum, Rockford Naper Settlement, Naperville
Indiana Conner Prairie, Fishers Historic Tunnel Mill, Charlestown Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City Spring Mill State Park, Mitchell
Iowa Living History Farms, Urbandale
Kansas Boot Hill Museum, Dodge City Old Cowtown Museum, Wichita Outdoor Museum, Abilene Shawnee Town 1929, Shawnee Green Elm School at the Crawford County Historical Museum, Pittsburg
Kentucky Adsmore, Princeton My Old Kentucky Home State Park, Bardstown Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Mercer County
Louisiana Acadian Village (park), Lafayette Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site, Natchitoches Germantown Colony and Museum, Webster Parish Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site, St. Martinville Longue Vue House and Gardens, New Orleans Oakland Plantation, Natchitoches Parish LSU Rural Life Museum, Baton Rouge Vermilionville Historic Village, Lafayette West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Allen
Maine Fort Western, Augusta Maine Forest & Logging Museum, living history site known as Leonard's Mills, Bradley Washburn-Norlands Living History Center, Livermore Willowbrook Museum Village, Newfield
Maryland Button Farm Living History Center, Germantown Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels Historic London Town and Gardens, Edgewater Historic St. Mary's City, St. Mary's City Jerusalem Mill, Kingsville
Massachusetts Hancock Shaker Village, Hancock Historic Deerfield, Deerfield Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Plymouth Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge
Michigan Crossroads Village & Huckleberry Railroad, Flint, Michigan, Village (Michigan) Greenfield Village, Dearborn Historic Mill Creek State Park, Mackinaw City Michigan's Heritage Park, Whitehall
Minnesota
Big Stone County Museum, Ortonville Dakota City Heritage Village, Farmington East Grand Forks Heritage Village, East Grand Forks Esko Historical Society Museum, Esko Fillmore County Historical Society Open-Air Museum, Fountain Forest History Center, Grand Rapids