[2] With the relocation of the Scouting America National Headquarters from New Jersey to Texas, the museum closed in 1979.

[4] Museum officials had predicted that 120,000 people annually would visit the Kentucky location, but by the late 1990s yearly attendance was under 20,000.

[5] In October 2002 the museum moved to Irving, Texas, across the road from the Scouting America National Headquarters.

[6] On May 29, 2018 the museum reopened at Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico, with a grand opening on September 15, 2018.

Displays on mining, logging, railroads and an historic Santa Fe Trail stage wagon or available.

[13] The National Scouting Museum features the 88-person Carl & Janice Marchetti Order of the Arrow Conference Room, along with a large gift shop that sells books, artwork, Southwestern jewelry, and other mementos.