Park Museum Highlights

The museum collection at Fort Stanwix National Monument contains nearly 500,000 objects! The geologic objects uncovered by NPS archeologists can be grouped into three categories of curiosities, building materials, and sediments. The following describes two of the more interesting and uncommon curiosities.

The collection at Fort Stanwix National Monument contains nearly 500,000 objects. These include objects, archives, and artifacts from at least 3,000 years of history! Learn about some of the more ancient, unusual, and unique ones from the time of the Oneida Carry in this series of “Curious Collections.”

One of the largest Civil War artifact and archival collections is at Gettysburg National Military Park. Now more than 40,000 images and catalog records for the Gettysburg collection can now be found online.

Exploring the museum collections at Denali National Park and Preserve is like touching history. Eight disciplines, such as biology, art, and history, are represented by more than 370,000 items in the collection.

Archeology in the basement of Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters NHS in 2001 unearthed fragments of wine bottles. Could they have belonged to George Washington?

The National Park Service cares for and preserves thousands of items that are left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial every year.

In a partnership between the National Park Service (NPS) and Google, Steamtown National Historic Site will be featured in the Google Cultural Institute.

The Fort Vancouver National Historic Site museum collection includes daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and ivorytypes. Learn more about these early photographic methods and see historic photos from the park's collection.

Marguerite McLoughlin was a significant figure in the history of Fort Vancouver and was also an accomplished seamstress. Take a look inside the Fort Vancouver National Historic museum collection to see beautiful examples of 19th century sewing tools owned by Mrs. McLoughlin.

The Native American archeology collections at Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site consist of a variety of material types totaling over 14,000 artifacts, most of which were excavated from the within the site boundaries through archeological investigations carried out in the 20th century. The precolonial Indigenous artifacts in SAIR’s collections can be broken down into three main material categories: lithics, ceramics, and organic artifacts.