Great museums [videorecording] / Great Museums, LLC ; Eureka Foundation ; Echo Pictures ; executive producers, Marc Doyle and Chesney Blankenstein Doyle.
disc 1. New Orleans : a living museum of music ; National Music Museum : America's shrine to music ; Institute of Texan Cultures : behind the Lone Star ; The Charleston Museum : America's first museum ; The Delta Blues Museum : the Blues lives on! ; DuSable Museum of African-American History : American soul -- disc 2. The National Baseball Hall of Fame : home base ; Ellis Island Immigration Museum : face of America ; Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian : native voice ; National D-Day Museum : triumph of the spirit ; The Library of Congress : volumes to speak ; Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum : water ways -- disc 3. Molly Brown House Museum : the unsinkable ; Colorado History Museum : crossroads of culture ; California Surf Museum : proudly we wave ; Autry Museum of Western Heritage : spirit of the west ; The National Museum of Racing : horse power -- disc 4. The Metropolitan Museum of Art : a world of art ; The Museum of Modern Art : in our time ; George Eastman House : picture perfect ; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum : collective vision -- disc 5. China : west meets east : at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; The Great Museums of Havana : curious about Cuba ; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts : art gets a start in America ; National Museum of Women in the Arts : a woman's touch -- disc 6. An Acquiring Mind : Philippe de Montebello and the the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Riches, Rivals & Radicals : 100 years of museums in America ; The Walker Art Center : creative catalyst ; Morris Museum of Art : the art of the south -- disc 7. The Smithsonian National Zoo : wild thing! ; The Franklin Institute : wonderland of science ; The Boston Children's Museum : mind over matter ; The Whale Museum : science at sea ; New York City Fire Museum : trial by fire ; The Henry Ford : made in America ; tCalifornia State Railroad Museum : binding ties.
Summary
An in-depth look at some of the United States' most notable museums.