Alaska

University of Alaska Museum,
Fairbanks: 907-474-7505.

Alaska State Museum,
Juneau: 907-465-2901
And The Bead Goes On!
traveling exhibit

Arizona

Heard Museum,
Phoenix: 602-252-8840

Phoenix Art Museum,
Phoenix: 602-257-1222
Converging Cultures: Art & Identity in Spanish America, includes Spanish colonial jewelry

The Bead Museum,
 5754 W Glenn Drive
Glendale, AZ.
 They are open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Admission is $4.00 for adults and $2.00 for children under 12.
See Bead Bugle Article

California

American Indian Contemporary Arts
San Francisco: 415-495-7600

Picard Trade Bead Museum
Open by Appointment Only
Phone (831) 625-7108
48 free standing cases, 46 framed wall displays, 3500 sq. ft.
See Bead Bugle Article

San Diego Museum of Man,
San Diego: 619-239-2001

Egyptian Museum & Planetarium,
San Jose: 408-947-3636
Extensive collection of ancient Egyptian beads and jewelry

Southwest Museum
Los Angeles: 213-221-2164

Colorado

Notah Dineh Museum,
Cortez: 970-565-9607
Features extensive display of antique, beaded Indian artifacts.

District of Columbia

Bead Museum
www.beadmuseumdc.org

National Museum of African Art,
Wash. DC: 202-357-1300

National Museum of the American Indian,
Wash. DC: 202-357-1300

Textile Museum,
Wash. DC: 202-667-1441

Florida

San Luis Archeological and Historic Site,
Tallahassee: 904-487-3711
Relics on display include beads excavated from 17th Century Mission

Illinois

Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art
Elmhurst: 630-833-1616

Louisiana

Musee Conti Wax Museum,
New Orleans: 800-233-5405 Exhibit includes figures of traditional Mardi Gras Indians in their elaborately feathered and beaded costumes.

The Germaine Wells Mardi Gras Museum, at Arnaud's Restaurant, in the French Quarter,
New Orleans: 504-523-0611
The Queen's Collection features gowns and memorabilia of Germaine Wells, queen of several Mardi Gras krewes from 1937 to 1968

The Louisiana State Museum, Old Mint,
New Orleans: 504-568-6993 Historic Mardi Gras memorabilia

Mississippi

Cottonlandia Museum
1608 Hwy. 82 West
Greenwood, MS 38930
662-453-0925
www.Cottonlandia.org

Missouri

Arabia Steamboat Museum,
Kansas City: 816-471-4030
Exhibit includes beads among the excavated remains of the steamboat Arabia, that sank in the Missouri River in 18556

Montana

Western Heritage Center,
Billings: 406-256-6809

North Dakota

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site,
Wiliston: 701-572-9083
Beads of the Bison Robe Trade

New Mexico

Millicent Rogers Museum,
Taos: 505-758-2462

Zuni Museum,
Zuni Pueblo: 505-782-4403
Extensive collection of authentic Zuni Fetishes

Institute of American Indian Arts Museum,
Santa Fe:
Keeping Our Stories Alive

New York

New York State Historical Association,
Cooperstown: 607-547-1426
Thaw collection of Native American Art
See Bead Bugle Article

Corning Museum of Glass,
Corning: 607-937-5371
http://www.pennynet.org/glmuseum/cmgcal.htm

Iroquois Indian Museum,
Howes Cave: 518-296-8949

Metropolitan Museum of Art, African Gallery,
New York: 718-326-7050
Newly reopened African Gallery includes items of metal, ivory and beadwork

Ohio

Bead International
Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center
8000 Dairy Lane, Athens, Ohio 45701
(740) 592-4981
info@dairybarn.org
www.dairybarn.org

Oklahoma

Southern Plains Indian Museum and Craft Center,
Anadarko: 405-247-6221

Pottawatomie Tribal Museum, Shawnee: 405-275-3119
Extensive collection of beadwork representing the woodland traditions of Algonquin people

Oregon

The High Desert Museum,
Bend: 541-382-4754
Highly decorative Indian artifacts.

Museum at Warm Springs
Warm Springs: 541-553-3331

Yakima Valley Museum
Dark Times, Bright Visions, over 100 pieces of beadwork, baskets, arfleches, cornhusk bags.

Wisconsin

Wisconsin Folk Museum,
Mount Horeb: 608-437-4742
Display of traditional arts of the Woodland Indian people of the area

Wyoming

Plains Indian Museum at The Buffalo Bill History Center,
Cody: 307-587-3243
Extensive of Plains Indian beaded garments and other objects.

Museum of the Mountain Men,
Pinedale: