| Name | Town/City | County | Region | Type | Summary |
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| Adaland Mansion | Philippi | Barbour | Mountaineer Country | Historic house | 1870 period mansion |
| Adam Stephen House | Martinsburg | Berkeley | Eastern Panhandle | Historic house | Also known as General Adam Stephen House, located next to Triple Brick Museum |
| African-American Heritage Family Museum | Ansted | Fayette | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | African American | |
| Alexander Campbell Mansion | Bethany | Brooke | Northern Panhandle | Historic house | Operated by Bethany College, early 19th-century period home of college founder Alexander Campbell |
| Anna Jarvis Birthplace Museum | Webster | Taylor | Mountaineer Country | Historic house | Home of Anna Jarvis, founder of the Mother's Day holiday |
| Ansted Culture and Heritage Museum | Ansted | Fayette | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Local history | information |
| Antioch Baptist Church Museum | Ansted | Fayette | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Local history | information |
| Art Museum of West Virginia University | Morgantown | Monongalia | Mountaineer Country | Art | website, part of West Virginia University |
| The Arts Centre | Martinsburg | Berkeley | Eastern Panhandle | Art | website, includes exhibit gallery |
| Avampato Discovery Museum | Charleston | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Science | Part of the Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of West Virginia, science exhibits, art gallery and a planetarium |
| Babcock State Park | Clifftop | Fayette | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Mill | Includes Glades Creek Grist Mill |
| B & O Museum of Wheeling | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | Multiple | website, part of West Virginia Northern Community College, exhibits include B & O Railroad memorabilia, Hazel-Atlas Glass Company pieces; also known as West Virginia Northern Community College Alumni Association Museum |
| Barbour County Historical Museum | Philippi | Barbour | Mountaineer Country | Local history | Exhibits include the mummified bodies of two female asylum inmates that were artificially preserved in 1888 |
| Beauchamp-Newman Museum | Elizabeth | Wirt | Mid-Ohio Valley | Local history | Owned and operated by the Elizabeth Beauchamp Chapter Daughters of American Pioneers |
| Beckley Exhibition Mine | Beckley | Raleigh | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Mining | Coal mine town, mine and museum, also Youth Museum of Southern WV |
| Belle Boyd House | Martinsburg | Berkeley | Eastern Panhandle | Local history | website, operated by the Berkeley County Historical Society, family home of Civil War spy Belle Boyd |
| Beverly Heritage Center | Beverly | Randolph | Potomac Highlands | Local history | website, combines four historic buildings to tell the story of the Battle of Rich Mountain, the Staunton and Parkersburg Turnpike, and daily life in a 19th-century rural county seat |
| Bice-Ferguson Memorial Museum | Shinnston | Harrison | Mountaineer Country | Local history | website, exhibits include period room displays and antique telephones |
| Birke Art Gallery | Huntington | Cabell | Metro Valley | Art | website, part of Marshall University |
| Blenko Glass Visitor Center and Museum | Milton | Cabell | Metro Valley | Decorative arts | Visitor center includes museum |
| Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park | Parkersburg | Wood | Mid-Ohio Valley | Local history | Includes Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History and rebuilt early 19th-century Blennerhassett Mansion on the island |
| Brooke County Historical Museum | Wellsburg | Brooke | Northern Panhandle | Local history | Industry, early education and pioneer life |
| Bulltown Historic Area | Bulltown | Braxton | Mountain Lakes | Military | Includes the 1863 battlefield of the Battle of Bulltown, a visitor center with exhibits about the town and the battle, and several 19th century log homes and other structures |
| Caboose Museum | Mullens | Wyoming | Southern | Local history | |
| Campbell-Flannagan-Murrell House Museum | Hinton | Summers | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Historic house | website |
| Canyon Rim Visitor Center | Fayetteville | Fayette | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Local history | website, one of three visitor centers for New River Gorge National River, area cultural and natural history |
| Capon Bridge Museum | Capon Bridge | Hampshire | Potomac Highlands | Local history | website, information |
| Carnegie Hall, Inc. | Lewisburg | Greenbrier | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Art | Regional cultural center with three fine art exhibit galleries |
| Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park | Summersville | Nicholas | Mountain Lakes | Historic house | 1850s Patterson House Museum includes artifacts from the Battle of Carnifex Ferry |
| Cass Scenic Railroad State Park | Cass | Pocahontas | Potomac Highlands | Railroad | Includes heritage railroad, museum, train shops, recreated 1940s logging camp, model railroads |
| Cedar Creek State Park | Glenville | Gilmer | Mountain Lakes | School | Includes the Pine Run One Room School |
| Central West Virginia Genealogy and History Library and Museum | Weston | Lewis | Mountain Lakes | History | |
| Ceredo Museum | Ceredo | Wayne | Metro Valley | Local history | Facebook site, information, operated by the Ceredo Historical Society |
| Chief Logan State Park | Logan | Logan | Metro Valley | Multiple | Includes Museum in the Park with changing art and history exhibits |
| Children's Museum of the Ohio Valley | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | Children's | website |
| C & O Depot Museum | St. Albans | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Railroad | |
| Coal Heritage Museum | Madison | Boone | Metro Valley | Mining | website, operated by the Bituminous Coal Heritage Foundation, heritage of area coal fields industry |
| Coal Heritage Trail Interpretive Center | Bramwell | Mercer | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Mining | information, West Virginia’s coal history |
| Contentment Historical Complex | Ansted | Fayette | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Historic house | Mid-19th-century period home of Civil War Col. George Imboden, schoolhouse, museum of historic household and cultural artifacts |
| Cook-Hayman Pharmacy Museum | Morgantown | Monongalia | Mountaineer Country | Medical | website, part of West Virginia University Medical Center, historic pharmacy display open by appointment |
| Country Store and Museum | Glenville | Gilmer | Mountain Lakes | History | General store with antiques and historic shop items |
| Craik-Patton House | Charleston | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Historic house | Mid-19th-century period home operated by the Colonial Dames of America in the state of West Virginia |
| Daughters of the American Revolution Toll House Museum | Barboursville | Cabell | Metro Valley | Local history | website |
| Davis History House | Romney | Hampshire | Potomac Highlands | Historic house | information, operated by the Hampshire County Public Library, 19th-century log house |
| Daywood Gallery | Philippi | Barbour | Mountaineer Country | Art | website, part of Alderson-Broaddus College |
| Doddridge County Museum | West Union | Doddridge | Mountaineer Country | Local history | Facebook site |
| Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park | Hillsboro | Pocahontas | Potomac Highlands | Military | Includes museum with history and artifacts from the American Civil War battle fought at the site |
| Eckhart House | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | Historic house | website, Victorian period house and tea room |
| Fenton Art Glass Museum | Williamstown | Wood | Mid-Ohio Valley | Art | website |
| Fort Ashby | Fort Ashby | Mineral | Potomac Highlands | Military | Mid-18th-century stockade fort erected by order of Col. George Washington during the French and Indian War |
| Fort Edwards | Capon Bridge | Hampshire | Potomac Highlands | History | website, visitor center museum exhibits about the 18th-century frontier fort and the French and Indian War |
| Fort New Salem | Salem | Harrison | Mountaineer Country | Open air | 19th-century log structures |
| Fort Randolph | Point Pleasant | Mason | Metro Valley | Military | Reconstructed American Revolutionary War era fort |
| Fostoria Glass Museum | Moundsville | Marshall | Northern Panhandle | Decorative arts | website, pieces produced by the Fostoria Glass Company |
| Gauley Bridge Historical Museum | Gauley Bridge | Fayette | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Local history | information, scroll to listing |
| Gorby's Vintage Instrument Museum | South Charleston | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Music | information, open by appointment, includes rare and exotic string, woodwind, brass and other instruments |
| Graham House | Lowell | Summers | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Historic house | 18th-century house, includes Saunders One Room School House Museum |
| Greatest Generation Exhibit | Rowlesburg | Preston | Mountaineer Country | Military | website, World War II memorabilia and home life |
| Green Bank Science Center | Green Bank | Pocahontas | Potomac Highlands | Science | website, interactive science exhibits and tours of the Green Bank Telescope |
| The Greenbrier - The Bunker | White Sulphur Springs | Greenbrier | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Military | 1950s secret emergency relocation center |
| The Greenbrier - Presidents' Cottage Museum | White Sulphur Springs | Greenbrier | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | History | History of the Greenbrier and its presidential visitors |
| Greenbrier Military School Memorial Museum | Lewisburg | Greenbrier | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Military | information, history of the defunct Greenbrier Military School |
| Grave Creek Mound | Moundsville | Marshall | Northern Panhandle | Archaeology | Includes the Delf Norona Museum with artifacts from the prehistoric mound |
| Hamilton Round Barn | Mannington | Marion | Mountaineer Country | Farm | |
| Hancock County Museum | New Cumberland | Hancock | Northern Panhandle | Historic house | Victorian period house and display of local history |
| Harpers Ferry National Historical Park | Harpers Ferry | Jefferson | Eastern Panhandle | Multiple | Includes many museums and historic sites |
| General Thomas M. Harris School Museum | Harrisville | Ritchie | Mid Ohio Valley | Local history | Operated by the Ritchie County Historical Society |
| Henry Cooper Log Cabin Museum | Parkersburg | Wood | Mid-Ohio Valley | History | Pioneer relics |
| Heritage Farm Museum and Village | Huntington | Wayne | Metro Valley | Open-air | Includes Museum of Progress with home displays from 1850, 1900, to 1925, transportation museum and country store museum |
| Hinton Railroad Museum | Hinton | Summers | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Railroad | Facebook site |
| Historic Shepherdstown Museum | Shepherdstown | Jefferson | Eastern Panhandle | Local history | |
| History House Museum | Terra Alta | Preston | Mountaineer Country | Local history | Operated by the Preston County Historical Society |
| Huntington Museum of Art | Huntington | Cabell | Metro Valley | Art | |
| Huntington Railroad Museum | Huntington | Cabell | Metro Valley | Railroad | website, operated by the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society |
| International Mother's Day Shrine | Grafton | Taylor | Mountaineer Country | History | |
| Jackson's Mill | Weston | Lewis | Mountain Lakes | Open air | Includes Jackson Family Mill Museum, Blaker Grist Mill, McWhorter Cabin, Mountain State Heritage Center and Mary Conrad Cabin |
| Jefferson County Museum | Charles Town | Jefferson | Eastern Panhandle | Local history | website |
| Jenkins Plantation Museum | Lesage | Cabell | Metro Valley | Historic house | Home of Confederate Brigadier General Albert Gallatin Jenkins |
| John Brown Wax Museum | Harpers Ferry | Jefferson | Eastern Panhandle | Wax | website |
| Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | Toy | website, includes toys, model trains, and a scale model of downtown Wheeling |
| Lighthorse Harry Lee Cabin | Mathias | Hardy | Potomac Highlands | Local history | Property administered by the State of West Virginia in Lost River State Park |
| Lemuel Chenoweth House & Museum | Beverly | Randolph | Mountaineer Country | Historic house | Mid-19th-century period house |
| Lost River Artisans Cooperative and Museum | Lost River | Hardy | Eastern Panhandle | Local history | website, includes furniture, tools, textiles, photographs |
| Lost World Caverns | Lewisburg | Greenbrier | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Natural history | Includes cave tours and museum with fossils, rocks and minerals |
| Madie Carroll House | Huntington | Cabell | Metro Valley | Historic house | 19th-century period house |
| Mansion House Museum | Point Pleasant | Mason | Metro Valley | Historic house | Located in Tu-Endie-Wei State Park |
| Marion County Historical Museum | Fairmont | Marion | Mountaineer Country | Local history | website |
| Marshall County Historical Society Museum | Moundsville | Marshall | Northern Panhandle | Local history | information |
| Matewan Depot Replica Museum | Matewan | Mingo | Metro Valley | Local history | Facebook site |
| Mercer County War Museum | Princeton | Mercer | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Military | Also known as Those Who Served Museum [1] |
| Mesaros Galleries | Morgantown | Monongalia | Mountaineer Country | Art | website, part of West Virginia University |
| Monongalia Arts Center | Morgantown | Monongalia | Mountaineer Country | Art | Art and culture center with two galleries |
| Monroe County Historical Society Museum | Union | Monroe | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Local history | website |
| Morgan’s Kitchen Plantation Museum | St. Albans | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Historic house | website, operated in the summer by the St. Albans Historical Society |
| Morgantown History Museum | Morgantown | Monongalia | Mountaineer Country | Local history | website |
| Mothman Museum | Point Pleasant | Mason | Metro Valley | Media | website, museum about the book and movie The Mothman Prophecies |
| Mountaineer Military Museum | Weston | Lewis | Mountain Lakes | Military | website |
| Museum of American Glass in West Virginia | Weston | Lewis | Mountain Lakes | Art | website, decorative glass pieces created by area glass manufacturers, includes National Marble Museum |
| Museum of Radio and Technology | Huntington | Cabell | Metro Valley | Technology | Historic radios and equipment |
| Museum of the Berkeley Springs | Berkeley Springs | Morgan | Eastern Panhandle | Local history | Located in Berkeley Springs State Park |
| Museums of Oglebay Institute | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | Multiple | Mansion Museum - 1900 mansion with decorative furnishings and local history exhibits, and the Glass Museum with Wheeling glass and china |
| New Deal Homestead Museum | Arthurdale | Preston | Mountaineer Country | Multiple | website, local history of this Depression-era project, period displays, art |
| New Era School Museum | Mineral Wells | Wood | Mid-Ohio Valley | School | Facebook site, 1884 one room school |
| North House Museum | Lewisburg | Greenbrier | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Historic house | Operated by the Greenbrier Historical Society, decorative arts and local history |
| Oglebay Institute’s Stifel Fine Arts Center | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | Art | Performing and visual arts center |
| Oil & Gas Museum | Parkersburg | Wood | Mid-Ohio Valley | Industry | Oil and gas industry in West Virginia and Ohio |
| Old Hemlock | Brandonville | Preston | Mountaineer Country | Historic house | 1782 log house and nature preserve, open for events and by appointment |
| Old Mill at Harman | Harman | Randolph | Potomac Highlands | Mill | Working grist mill |
| Old Morgantown Glass Collectors' Guild Glass Museum | Morgantown | Monongalia | Mountaineer Country | Art | website, decorative glass pieces, currently rebuilding the museum |
| Old Stone House Museum | Pennsboro | Ritchie | Mid-Ohio Valley | Local history | Operated by the Ritchie County Historical Society |
| Parkersburg Art Center | Parkersburg | Wood | Mid-Ohio Valley | Art | website |
| Pearl S. Buck Birthplace | Hillsboro | Pocahontas | Potomac Highlands | Biographical | 1892 period home of writer Pearl S. Buck |
| Pennsboro B&O Depot | Pennsboro | Ritchie | Mid-Ohio Valley | Railroad | Operated by the Ritchie County Historical Society |
| Pocahontas County Museum | Marlinton | Pocahontas | Potomac Highlands | Local history | Operated by the Pocahontas County Historical Society |
| Point Pleasant River Museum | Point Pleasant | Mason | Metro Valley | Maritime | website, river life and commercial enterprise on the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, including great floods, boat construction, sternwheel steamers, river disasters, river industry, contribution to World War II, a full scale pilot house simulator, 2400 GAL native fish aquarium and a research library |
| Prabhupada's Palace of Gold | New Vrindaban | Marshall | Northern Panhandle | Religious | Memorial shrine built by Hare Krishna devotees for their spiritual master, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada |
| Prickett's Fort State Park | Fairmont | Marion | Mountaineer Country | Living | Reconstructed 1770s log fort with seasonal 18th-century living history demonstrations and the 19th-century Job Prickett House |
| Princeton Railroad Museum | Princeton | Mercer | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Railroad | website, over 100 railroad lanterns, exhibits of railroad artifacts, artworks, books, photographs, and corporate railroad material |
| Raleigh County Veterans Museum | Beckley | Raleigh | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Military | Facebook site |
| Randolph County Museum | Beverly | Randolph | Potomac Highlands | Local history | 1828 store housing a collection that includes early settlement tools, Civil War artifacts, and belongings of early citizens |
| Rehoboth Church and Museum | Union | Monroe | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Religious | 1780s log-cabin style church and adjacent museum, heritage landmark of the United Methodist Church |
| Rowlesburg B&O Depot and Museum | Rowlesburg | Preston | Mountaineer Country | Railroad | information |
| Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts Museum | Morgantown | Monongalia | Mountaineer Country | Industry | Part of West Virginia University, social, cultural, and technological history of the coal, oil, and natural gas industries of West Virginia |
| St. George Academy | St. George | Tucker | Mountaineer Country | Local history | listed on the National Register of Historic Places |
| Samuel Shrewsbury, Sr. House | Belle | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Historic house | Owned by the Belle Historical Restoration Society, Inc., early 19th-century period house and local history museum |
| Sandstone Visitor Center | Sandstone | Summers | Southern | Local history | website, one of three visitor centers for New River Gorge National River, area cultural and natural history of the river and its watershed |
| Scott's Run Museum | Osage | Monongalia | Mountaineer Country | Local history | website, information |
| Seneca Rocks Discovery Center | Seneca Rocks | Pendleton | Eastern Panhandle | Multiple | website, operated by the US Forest Service in Spruce Knob–Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area, exhibits on natural and local history, includes the mid-19th-century period Sites Homestead |
| South Charleston Museum | South Charleston | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Multiple | Facebook site, local history, culture and art exhibits |
| Swiger Run History Center & Museum | Doddridge County | Doddridge | Mountaineer Country | Local history | website |
| Taggart Hall Civil War Museum | Romney | Hampshire | Potomac Highlands | Local history | Includes Civil War memorabilia and Fenton glass |
| Thurmond Depot Visitor Center | Thurmond | Fayette | Southern | Local history | One of three visitor centers for New River Gorge National River |
| Top Kick's Military Museum | Petersburg | Grant | Potomac Highlands | Military | website |
| Triple Brick Museum | Martinsburg | Berkeley | Eastern Panhandle | Local history | website, located next to Adam Stephen House |
| Twin Falls Resort State Park | Mullens | Wyoming | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Farm | Includes a nature center and Bowers Ridge Pioneer Farm, a restored 1830s mountain homestead working farm |
| Tyler County Museum | Middlebourne | Tyler | Northern Panhandle | Local history | website, operated by the Tyler County Heritage and Historical Society |
| Upshur County History Center | Buckhannon | Upshur | Mountain Lakes | Local history | website, operated by the Upshur County Historical Society |
| US Navy Poster Museum | Point Pleasant | Mason | Metro Valley | Art | Facebook site, US Navy recruiting posters spanning 100 years |
| Veterans Museum of Mid Ohio Valley | Parkersburg | Wood | Mid-Ohio Valley | Military | website |
| Veterans Museum of Southern West Virginia | Hinton | Summers | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Military | information |
| Victorian Wheeling Landmarks Foundation | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | Historic house | information, provides guided tours of the Victorian period Hess House, John List House and Hazlett-Fields House |
| Watters Smith Memorial State Park | Lost Creek | Harrison | Mountaineer Country | Farm | Late 19th-century homestead and farm museum |
| Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center | Weirton | Hancock | Northern Panhandle | Local history | website |
| West Augusta Historical Society Museum | Mannington | Marion | Mountaineer Country | Local history | |
| West Virginia CCC Museum | Quiet Dell | Harrison | Mountaineer Country | History | website, history of the Civilian Conservation Corps activities in WV |
| West Virginia Governor's Mansion | Charleston | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Historic house | |
| West Virginia Independence Hall | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | History | History of statehood of West Virginia |
| West Virginia Railroad Museum | Elkins | Randolph | Potomac Highlands | Railway | Heritage railroad and museum being planned |
| West Virginia State Capitol | Charleston | Kanawha | Metro Valley | History | |
| West Virginia State Cultural Center | Charleston | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Multiple | website, includes West Virginia's artistic, cultural and historic heritage |
| West Virginia State Farm Museum | Point Pleasant | Mason | Metro Valley | Farm | website, buildings of historical value, log cabins and tools, early farmhouse and furnishing, machinery, an operational 19th-century blacksmith shop, turn-of-the-20th-century doctor's and newspaper offices |
| West Virginia State Museum | Charleston | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Multiple | website, West Virginia history, culture, art, paleontology, archaeology and geology |
| West Virginia State Penitentiary | Moundsville | Marshall | Northern Panhandle | Prison | Former prison |
| Wheeling Artisan Center | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | Multiple | website, includes Wymer's General Store Museum, art gallery and local history exhibits |
| Whipple Company Store & Museum | Scarbro | Fayette | Southern | History | website, historic coal camp company store |
| Wildwood House Museum | Beckley | Raleigh | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | History | Historic house museum |
| Williamson Area Railroad Museum | Williamson | Mingo | Metro Valley | Railroad | information |
| Wyoming County Historical Museum | Oceana | Wyoming | Southern | Local history | website |
| Youth Museum of Southern West Virginia | Beckley | Raleigh | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Children's | website, part of Beckley Exhibition Mine |
| Z. D. Ramsdell House | Ceredo | Wayne | Metro Valley | Historic house | 19th-century house |
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