The Peale, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is Baltimore's Community Museum. Its mission is to evolve the role of museums in society by providing local creators and storytellers with the space and support they need to realize a complete and accessible cultural legacy for the city of Baltimore. In August 2022, The Peale held a grand re-opening ceremony after the completion of a five-year restoration process.

The Philadelphia Museum was an early museum in Philadelphia started by the painter Charles Willson Peale and continued by his family. It was opened in 1784 as an art museum and added a natural history collection in 1786. Peale died in 1827 and the collection was sold in 1849. The exhibits included the first nearly complete skeleton of the mastodon, a relative of the mammoth.