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| Name | Town/City | County | Type | Summary | | Annmary Brown Memorial | Providence | Providence | Art | Part of Brown University, collection includes European and American paintings from the 17th through the 20th centuries and swords |
| Artillery Company of Newport | Newport | Newport | Military | Uniforms, weapons, military artifacts and memorabilia |
| Barrington Preservation Society | Barrington | Bristol | History Local | Includes household items, brick industry, fishing industry, historical houses. |
| Beavertail Lighthouse Museum | Jamestown | Newport | Lighthouse | Located in the assistant keeper's house, includes models of many Rhode Island lighthouses |
| Belcourt Castle | Newport | Newport | Historic house | 1890s summer cottage estate with furnishings, art and artifacts from 33 European and Oriental countries and 37 other Newport mansions |
| Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum | Bristol | Bristol | Historic house | 45-room English-style manor mansion, 32 acres of gardens & arboretum |
| Block Island Historical Society Museum | Block Island | Block Island | History - local | Includes household items, maritime and farming artifacts |
| Block Island Southeast Light | Block Island | Block Island | Lighthouse | Open in summer |
| Boyd's Wind Grist Mill | Middletown | Newport | Mill | Early 19th-century smock mill, open to the public on Sunday afternoons in July, August and September, operated by the Middletown Historical Society |
| The Breakers | Newport | Newport | Historic house | 1890s Vanderbilt family mansion |
| Bristol Historical and Preservation Society Museum and Library | Bristol | Bristol | Prison | 19th century jail and keeper's house |
| Bristol Train of Artillery Museum | Bristol | Bristol | Military | Open by appointment only |
| Cape Verdean Museum Exhibit | East Providence | Providence | Ethnic | history and culture of Cape Verde and Cape Verdean Americans[1] |
| Chateau-sur-Mer | Newport | Newport | Historic house | Gilded Age mansion |
| Chepstow | Newport | Newport | Historic house | 19th century period mansion |
| Clemence-Irons House | Johnston | Providence | Historic house | Operated by Historic New England, late 17th-century house |
| Clouds Hill Victorian House Museum | Warwick | Kent | Historic house | Late 19th-century Victorian period house |
| Coggeshall Farm Museum | Bristol | Bristol | Living history | Late 18th-century period farm with living history re-enactors |
| Culinary Arts Museum | Providence | Providence | Food | Part of Johnson & Wales University, history and culture of food, cooking and cuisine[2] |
| David Winton Bell Gallery | Providence | Providence | Art | part of the List Art Center at Brown University[3] |
| Eleazer Arnold House | Lincoln | Providence | Historic house | Operated by Historic New England, 17th century period house |
| The Elms | Newport | Newport | Historic house | Early 20th-century mansion |
| Firemen's Museum | Warren | Bristol | Firefighters | Open by appointment only[4] |
| Fort Adams | Newport | Newport | Fort | Tours of historic fort, located in Fort Adams State Park |
| General Nathanael Greene Homestead | Coventry | Kent | Historic house | 18th century home of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene, also known as Spell Hall |
| Gilbert Stuart Birthplace | Saunderstown | Washington | Historic house | 18th century Colonial house and museum about portraitist Gilbert Stuart |
| Governor Henry Lippitt House | Providence | Providence | Historic house | 19th century period Victorian 20 room home |
| Governor Sprague Mansion | Cranston | Providence | Historic house | Operated by the Cranston Historical Society, mid 19th century period mansion |
| Governor Stephen Hopkins House | Providence | Providence | Historic house | Operated by Society of Colonial Dames of America, 18th-century home of Stephen Hopkins |
| Great Friends Meeting House | Newport | Newport | Religious | Historic Quaker meeting house, operated by the Newport Historical Society |
| Green Animals Topiary Garden | Portsmouth | Newport | Historic house | 80 topiary animals and an 1859 Victorian house museum with displays of vintage toys & furnishings |
| Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology | Providence | Providence | Anthropology | Part of Brown University |
| Hearthside | Lincoln | Providence | Historic house | Early 19th century stone mansion |
| Hera Gallery | Wakefield | Washington | Art | Contemporary art |
| Herreshoff Marine Museum | Bristol | Bristol | Maritime | Includes America's Cup Hall of Fame |
| Hunter House | Newport | Newport | Historic house | 18th century period house |
| International Tennis Hall of Fame | Newport | Newport | Sports | Located at the Newport Casino |
| Isaac Bell House | Newport | Newport | Historic house | 1880s Shingle-Style house |
| Jamestown Fire Museum | Jamestown | Newport | Firefighting | Operated by the Jamestown Fire Department and volunteers, located next door to the main station[5] |
| Jamestown Museum | Jamestown | Newport | Local history | Operated by the Jamestown Historical Society, open seasonally |
| John Brown House | Providence | Providence | Historic house | 18th century period mansion, operated by the Rhode Island Historical Society |
| John Waterman Arnold House | Warwick | Kent | Historic house | Late 18th-century house, home of the Warwick Historical Society |
| Joy Homestead | Cranston | Providence | Historic house | Operated by the Cranston Historical Society, 18th-century Colonial period house |
| Kingscote | Newport | Newport | Historic house | 19th-century Gothic Revival house |
| Linden Place | Bristol | Bristol | Historic house | 19th century estate and gardens |
| Marble House | Newport | Newport | Historic house | Gilded Age Vanderbilt family mansion |
| Mount Hope Farm | Bristol | Bristol | Historic house | 18th century period mansion and farm grounds |
| Musée Patamécanique | Bristol | Bristol | Patamechanics | Private museum containing works representing the field of Patamechanics |
| Museum of Natural History and Planetarium | Providence | Providence | Natural history | Located in Roger Williams Park |
| Museum of Newport History | Newport | Newport | Local history | Operated by the Newport Historical Society |
| Museum of Primitive Art and Culture | South Kingstown | Washington | Archaeology / Anthropology | Changing exhibits of archaeological and ethnological objects from around the world, including Native American |
| Museum of Work and Culture | Woonsocket | Providence | Industry | Textile industry, operated by the Rhode Island Historical Society |
| Museum of Yachting | Newport | Newport | Maritime | Art, photographs and history of yachting, sailing, and boatbuilding |
| National Museum of American Illustration | Newport | Newport | Art | American illustrative art, located at Vernon Court, a Gilded Age mansion |
| Naval War College Museum | Newport | Newport | Military | History of the Naval War College, area naval activities and science of naval warfare |
| Nelson W. Aldrich House | Providence | Providence | Local history | Home of the Rhode Island Historical Society, changing exhibits on Rhode Island history |
| New England Wireless and Steam Museum | East Greenwich | Kent | Technology | Includes a former wireless station and equipment, steam engines |
| Newport Art Museum | Newport | Newport | Art | Includes notable works from Rhode Island and New England artists, mid-19th century period rooms in the John N. A. Griswold House |
| Newport Colony House | Newport | Newport | History | Meeting place for the Colonial legislature and alternative State House, operated by the Newport Historical Society |
| Norman Bird Sanctuary | Middletown | Newport | Natural history | 300|acre|km2|adj=on}} wildlife refuge with trailside museum |
| Paine House Museum | Coventry | Kent | Historic house | Colonial period house |
| Paradise School | Portsmouth | Newport | School | One room schoolhouse |
| Pettaquamscutt Historical Society Museum | Kingston | Washington | Local history | Housed in a former jail building |
| Portsmouth | Newport | Local history | Houses the majority of its collection in the former Portsmouth Christian Union Church, includes Julia Ward Howe Room |
| Prescott Farm | Middletown | Newport | Mill | Includes windmill, Revolutionary War guard house, and historic gardens |
| Providence Children's Museum | Providence | Providence | Children's |
| Quonset Air Museum | North Kingstown | Washington | Aviation | State's aviation heritage, includes military vehicles, missiles, aircraft and aviation artifacts |
| Redwood Library and Athenaeum | Newport | Newport | Art | Library with changing exhibitions of art and history from its collections, also sculpture, furniture, gardens & special book collections |
| Rhode Island Computer Museum | North Kingstown | Washington | Technology | Vintage computers |
| Rhode Island School of Design Museum | Providence | Providence | Art | Collection includes art from Egypt, Asia, Africa, ancient Greece and Rome, Europe, and the Americas, decorative arts, costumes and textiles |
| Rhode Island Radio Museum | North Providence | Providence | Historic Technology | Private Collection of Radio and Wireless Equipment and Parts produced in Rhode Island during the 1920s. http://rhodeislandradio.org |
| Rhode Island Railroad Museum | Kingston | Washington | Railroad | Located in southern half of Kingston Railroad Station |
| Roger Williams National Memorial | Providence | Providence | Biographical | Life of Roger Williams, co-founder of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and a champion of the ideal of religious freedom |
| Rosecliff | Newport | Newport | Historic house | Gilded Age mansion modeled after the Grand Trianon |
| Rough Point | Newport | Newport | Historic house | Estate of Doris Duke, includes large art collection and |
| Samuel Whitehorne House | Newport | Newport | Historic house | 19th century brick townhouse with examples of Newport and Rhode Island furniture from the late 18th century |
| Seabee Museum and Memorial Park | Davisville | Washington | Military | Includes the former U.S. Navy concrete chapel, seven vintage Quonset huts and a Seabee statue[6] |
| Slater Mill | Pawtucket | Providence | Industry | Textile mill industry |
| Smith-Appleby House | Smithfield | Providence | Historic house | 18th century period house |
| Smith's Castle | Wickford | Washington | Historic house | Late 17th century period house |
| South County Museum | Narragansett | Washington | Living history | Includes farm and agriculture exhibits, Victorian kitchen, general store display, aritime gallery, print shop, carpentry shop, blacksmith shop, one-room schoolhouse, carriage barn, early vehicles |
| Sydney L. Wright Museum | Jamestown | Newport | Archaeological | Ancient and Colonial period Narragansett Indian artifacts, European artifacts from the 1600s, photos and maps[7] |
| Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum | Exeter | Washington | Native American | Museum of the Narragansett |
| Touro Synagogue | Newport | Newport | Historic site | Colonial-era synagogue |
| Varnum House Museum | East Greenwich | Kent | Historic house | 1773 house built by James Mitchell Varnum, furnished with period furniture and features many historic artifacts. Owned and operated by the Varnum Continentals. |
| Varnum Memorial Armory Military Museum | East Greenwich | Kent | Military | website, operated by the Varnum Continentals in the former Varnum Memorial Armory, includes weaponry, uniforms and artifacts dating from colonial America and through the 20th century |
| Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House | Newport | Newport | Historic house | Colonial era period house, operated by the Newport Historical Society |
| Warwick Museum of Art | Warwick | Kent | Art | Changing exhibits of fine and decorative art |
| Watson Farm | Jamestown | Newport | Historic house | 1796 house is not open to the public but visitors can explore the farmland on their own. |
| Westerly Armory Museum | Westerly | Washington | Military | Local military memorabilia |
| Whitehall Museum House | Middletown | Newport | Historic house | 18th century period house |
| Wilbor House, Barn and Quaker Meeting House | Little Compton | Newport | Historic house | Operated by the Little Compton Historical Society, late 17th-century house and early 19th-century meeting house |
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1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.capeverdeanmuseum.org/|work=Cape Verdean Museum Exhibit|title=Home}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.culinary.org/|work=Culinary Arts Museum|title=Home}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.brown.edu/campus-life/arts/bell-gallery/|work=David Winton Bell Gallery|title=Home}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Firemen's Museum|url=http://www.visitrhodeisland.com/what-to-do/childrens-activities/446/firemens-museum/|publisher=Visit Rhode Island|accessdate=30 August 2015}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=Fire Museum|url=http://www.jamestownfd.com/museum.html|publisher=Jamestown Fire Department|accessdate=30 August 2015}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.seabeesmuseum.com/|work=Seabee Museum and Memorial Park|title=Seabee Museum & Memorial Park}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=Jamestown and Newport, Rhode Island Interesting and Useful Information|url=http://www.jamestown-ri.info/Linkpage.htm|publisher=Jamestown Information|accessdate=30 August 2015}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.projo.com/news/content/ASTORS_BEECHWOOD_01-01-10_6CGT68D_v24.346000a.html |title=Astors Beechwood mansion in Newport may be sold for $10.5 million |work=The Providence Journal |date=2010-01-01 |accessdate=2010-12-27}}
9. ^http://dollmuseum.com/aboutus.htm The Museum Doll Shop Web site
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