That's a poor choice of words. Census Bureau . Also check out the Statistical Abstract of the United States . America's high-tech dinosaur . National Archives and Records Administration .
Original documents are the raw stuff of history.
Museum of History of Science , Florence, Italy. Ontario Science Center , North York, Ontario, Canada. A visit to Vermeer . Not a museum, but the work of a Kees Kaldenbach, art historian. Available in English and in Dutch.