Scouting museums

Throughout the world there are many museums related to Scouting dedicated to preserving, communicating, and exhibiting the heritage of the Scouting movement for purposes of study, education, and enjoyment of society. A downloadable world directory of Scouting museums is available from the US Scouting Service Project.

Africa Scout Region

Baden-Powell museum – Nyeri, Kenya, near Mount Kenya. Baden-Powell's Paxtu cottage, now a small museum, stands on the grounds of the Outspan Hotel. For years it served as a WAGGGS World Center. Scout Information Centre – Baden Powell's Gravesite, Nyeri, Kenya, near Mount Kenya. This is a fairly modern build which contains a small shop, a board showing badges (many collected during the 2010 World Scout Moot in Kenya) and various neckers (scarfs) from around the World. There are plans to develop it in to a fully fledged museum outlining the history of the association. Talks were under way with National Museums of Kenya to obtain suitable display cases, etc... during 2013. A number of historical items currently held at the Kenya Scout HQs in Rowallan Campsite, Nairobi are likely to be moved into the new museum once it has been completed. This includes a 1st Edition copy of Scouting for Boys.

Asia-Pacific Region

Scout Museum at the National Training Centre, Mouchak, Gazipur, Bangladesh Hong Kong Scout Centre, Austin Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong Scout Association of Japan headquarters, Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Museum occupies one floor of the headquarters. Philippine Scout Center (at the back of Manila City Hall), the Philippines Manila International Scout Museum (MISM) (Tondo, Manila), the Philippines Discovery Scout Centre, Singapore

Australia Tasmanian Scout Heritage Centre, Kingston, Tasmania South Australian Scout Archives, Henley Beach, South Australia Victorian Scout Heritage Centre, South Yarra, Victoria Scouts Queensland Heritage Centre, 'The Wheel House', Baden-Powell Park, Samford, Queensland. Baden-Powell House, Perth, Western Australia. Queensland Guide Museum, Brisbane, Queensland

New Zealand National Scout Museum, Blue Skies Conference and Training Centre, Kaiapoi, South Island, New Zealand

European Scout Region

Austria Pfadfindermuseum und Institut für Pfadfindergeschichte, Vienna Pfadfindermuseum der Gilde Bruck an der Leitha

Belgium

Scouts en Gidsen Museum / Musée du Scoutisme et Guidisme, Louvain Centre Historique Belge du Scoutisme / Belgische Historische Centrum voor Scoutisme, Brussels International Scouting Museum, Arlon

Denmark Spejdermuseet Holmen Esbjerg Spejdermuseum Spejdermuseet Århus Stenlændernes Spejdermuseum KFUM-spejdernes korpshistoriske udvalg Sønderjysk Spejdermuseum Tydal Spejdermuseum Silkeborg Spejdermuseum Nordjysk Spejdermuseum De historiske Samlinger, Aalborg KFUK-Spejdermuseum (Randers) Randers Spejdermuseum DDS De Gule Spejderes museum Fyns Spejder- og FDF museum

Finland Suomen Partiomuseo – Finlands Scoutmuseum, Turku

France Musée Scout Réseau Baden-Powell, Thorey-Lyautey

Iceland Scouting Museum Iceland

Ireland

Larch Hill Scout Museum Mount Melleray National Scout Museum, County Waterford Togher Scout Museum, Cork City

Italy

Scout Museum, Palermo

The Netherlands Scouting Nederland Museum, Baarn Scoutingmuseum Haagse Randstad, The Hague. Traveling museum without a permanent exhibition space. Scouting Museum "De Ducdalf", Rotterdam

Norway Norwegian Guide and Scout museum, Oslo

Poland Museum of Scouting, Warsaw Olga & Andrzej Małkowski Scouting Museum , Zakopane Scouting Museum, Radom

Portugal

Museu do Corpo Nacional de Escutas (Museu do CNE), Lisboa Museu do Escutismo, Dume - Braga Centro de Interpretação e Documentação do Escotismo - Museu dos Escoteiros de Portugal, Cova da Piedade - Almada

Slovakia

Slovakia National Scouting Museum - Skautské múzeum Václava Rubeša v Ružomberku (Václav Rubeš Scouting Museum in Ružomberok),

Sweden

Kjesäters Scoutmuseum & Archive, Vingåker Scoutmuseet, Göteborg Scoutmuseet i Malmö Nordvästra Skånes Scoutmuseum, Helsingborg

United Kingdom

Baden-Powell House, London. A basic display and some artefacts. Gilwell Park, Chingford, north London. Closed in the Spring of 2016 as heritage preservation was affected by building lighting and humidity, but reopened before October 2017. Guide Heritage Centre, London Be Prepared - Scouting Museum Trust at Waddecar Scout Camp, West Lancashire. Youlbury Scout Activity Centre Oxfordshire Brownsea Island Scout camp, Poole Harbour, Dorset. Hertfordshire Scout Museum, Well End.

Interamerican Scout Region

Argentina Scout Museum "Baden Powell" - San Francisco, Córdoba Scout Museum - Guaymallén, Mendoza

Brazil Museu Escoteiro de Brasília. Cultural Centre of Scout Movement (CCME), Rio de Janeiro Carajás Scout Museum São Paulo

Canada Scouts Canada National Museum - Ottawa, Ontario Victoria Scout and Guide Museum - Victoria, British Columbia

Mexico Museo de Historia Scout - Puebla

United States

Avondale Scout Museum, Clinton, La Arizona Scouting Museum Barbara Anderson Girl Scout Museum, Phoenix, Arizona Boyhaven Scouting Museum, Middle Grove, New York Central States Scout Museum, Larned, Kansas Central States Scout Museum E. Urner Goodman Scout Museum, Owasippe Scout Reservation, Blue Lake Township, Michigan Fred H. Poppe Museum, Amarillo, Texas George E. Freestone Boy Scout Museum, Provo, Utah Girl Scout First Headquarters, Savannah, Georgia Girl Scout Museum and Archives, Girl Scout Headquarters, New York City, New York Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson Archive Museum, Camp Wendy, Wallkill, New York Girl Scout Museum at Cedar Hill, Camp Cedar Hill, Waltham, Massachusetts Girl Scout Museum at Daisy's Place, Girl Scouts of Tanasi Council Office, Knoxville, Tennessee Girl Scout Museum, Girl Scouts of Northern California, Oakland, California and at Camp Bothin in Fairfax, California Girl Scouts of Utah Heritage Museum, Salt Lake City, Utah Goodykoontz Museum of Girl Scout History, Houston, Texas Gregson Center and Museum, Pipsico Scout Reservation, Spring Grove, Virginia John Dyer-Hurdon Scout Collection at the Washington Historical Museum, Washington, Michigan Lawrence L. Lee Scouting Museum & Max I. Silber Scouting Library, Manchester, New Hampshire Many Point Scout Camp History Center, Ponsford, Minnesota Miakonda Scouting Museum, Toledo, Ohio National Scouting Museum, Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimarron, New Mexico Nathan Dauby Scouting Museum, Lake Erie Council, Cleveland, Ohio Nathan Hale Heritage Center, June Norcross Webster Scout Reservation, Ashford, Connecticut Nawakwa Lodge #3 Museum, Camp T. Brady Saunders, Maidens, Virginia New Jersey Scout Museum, Morganville, New Jersey Nobby Schnabel Museum and Nature Center, Camp Pollock, Cedar Glen, California Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, Massachusetts Norman Rockwell Museum of Vermont, Rutland, Vermont North East Regional Scout Museum, Rochelle Park, New Jersey North Star Museum of Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting, North St. Paul, Minnesota Osage County Historical Museum, Pawhuska, Oklahoma Otis H. Chidester Museum, Tucson, Arizona Ottawa Scouting Museum, Ottawa, Illinois Pioneers' Park Museum, Imperial, California Samoset Council Archives Room, Crystal Lake Scout Reservation, Rhinelander, Wisconsin Scout Heritage Museum, Three Harbors Council, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Ten Mile River Scout Museum, Narrowsburg, New York Thomas D. Trainor Boy Scout Museum, Metamora, Michigan Western Washington Traveling Scout Museum, Federal Way Washington W.C. Moorehead Museum, Camp Tuscazoar, Zoarville, Ohio William Hillcourt Scout Museum, Constantia, New York World Scouting Museum, Charleston, West Virginia World of Scouting Museum, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania Worth Ranch Museum, Palo Pinto, Texas

Virtual Museums Lawrence L. Lee Scouting Museum and Library, Manchester, New Hampshire Scout & Guide Museum page Scouting Milestones Scout History Website

See also

Scouting memorials Scouting memorabilia collecting

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