Rhode Island Museums
Rhode Island has museums devoted to tennis, yachting, great statesmen and the all-American diner!
American Diner Museum
Dedicated to eggs over easy and hot cuppas, this museum will exhibit entire diners and memorabilia in the future Heritage Harbor Museum.
Beavertail Lighthouse Museum
On the harbor at Jamestown, Rhode Island.
Providence Children's Museum
The Providence Children's Museum is located on South Street in Providence. The museum Web site lists coming and current events.
Governor Henry Lippitt House
The New York Times has called this 1865 Providence East Side mansion one of the nation's best preserved examples of Victorian elegance.
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
More than 80,000 objects, many from Native North American cultures. The museum is owned by Brown University and is now located in Bristol, Rhode Island. Plans call for a move to a Providence location.
Heritage Harbor Museum
Future home of exhibits dedicated to Rhode Island's ethnic heritage, as well as special collections on jewelry, steamships and diners!
International Tennis Hall of Fame
The opulent Newport "casino" became the site of the first tennis tourney in the U.S. and now honors the great players of the game.
John Hay Library
Rare books, manuscripts and the archives of Brown University.
Museum & Shop at Brick Market
Run by the Newport Historical Society, the museum introduces visitors to the storied city of Newport, Rhode Island, and displays many treasures and artifacts.
Museum of Yachting
The online home of the Newport museum that honors two-time America's Cup winner, Courageous.
Providence Maritime Heritage Foundation
Home of the Continental Sloop Providence, a 110' replica of John Paul Jones' first command. Arrange a sail on Narragansett Bay, or take a virtual voyage.
Newport Art Museum
Information on collections, tours and classes.
Norman Bird Sanctuary
This Middletown, Rhode Island, nature preserve and education center offers hiking trails, day camps and birding programs and a host of online activities for kids and bird lovers.
Quonset Air Museum
This museum of aviation history is located on the old Quonset Naval Air Base.
Rhode Island Historical Society
Information on tours and exhibits for the Society's John Brown House Museum, Museum of Work and Heritage and the Museum and the Library of Rhode Island History.
Rhode Island Holocaust Memorial Museum
This museum honors Holocaust victims while paying tribute, as well, to survivors and liberators.
Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association
Publisher, since the 1950s, of Rhode Island Jewish History Notes, the association will be part of the planned Heritage Harbor museum complex.
South County Museum
This Narragansett historical museum has more than 20,000 artifacts related to life on the farm, in the village and on the sea.
USS Saratoga Museum
If organizers are successful, this proposed museum will be home to the Navy supercarrier Saratoga and a repository of Rhode Island naval history.