You can see, hear, feel, and sometimes even smell the history throughout Massachusetts. Check out the very rock where the Pilgrims landed, and visit Plimoth Patuxet Museums to see what life was like in the 1600s. Or experience life in the 1830s over at Old Sturbridge Village, one of the country’s oldest and largest living history museums. Walk the Freedom Trail in downtown Boston, where every step tells a story of the American Revolution or listen for the famous “shot heard round the world” on Lexington Green, where the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired. Sit where the giants of the abolitionist movement sat in the brilliantly restored African American Meeting House. Feel the hull of Old Ironsides, otherwise known as the USS Constitution.
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African Meeting House on Nantucket/The Museum of Afro-American History
Nantucket
Aquinnah Cultural Center
Aquinnah,
Cape Cod Maritime Museum
Hyannis
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
Brewster
Greater Light
Nantucket
Hadwen House
Nantucket
Harwich Historical Society at Brooks Academy Museum
Harwich
Heritage Museums & Gardens
Sandwich
Historical Society of Santuit & Cotuit
Cotuit
JFK Hyannis Museum
Hyannis
Marta's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association
Oak Bluffs
Martha's Vineyard Museum
Vineyard Haven
Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
South Wellfleet
Massachusetts Air and Space Museum
Hyannis
Nantucket Historical Association Research Library & Archives
Nantucket
Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum
Nantucket
Nantucket Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum
Nantucket
Nantucket Whaling Museum
Nantucket
The Oldest House/Jethro Coffin House
Nantucket
Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum
Provincetown
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African Meeting House on Nantucket/The Museum of Afro-American History
29 York St.
Nantucket
508-228-9833 - B
Aquinnah Cultural Center
35 Aquinnah Circle (location)
10 Black Brook Rd. (mailing)
Aquinnah,
(508)645-7900 - C
Cape Cod Maritime Museum
135 South St.
Hyannis
(508) 775-1723 - D
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main Street/route 6a
Brewster
508-896-3867 - E
Greater Light
8 Howard St.
Nantucket
508-228-1894 - F
Hadwen House
96 Main St.
Nantucket
508-228-1894 - G
Harwich Historical Society at Brooks Academy Museum
80 Parallel St.
Harwich
508-432-8089 - H
Heritage Museums & Gardens
67 Grove Street
Sandwich
508-888-3300 - I
Historical Society of Santuit & Cotuit
1148 Main St.
Po Box 1484
Cotuit
5084280461 - J
JFK Hyannis Museum
397 Main St.
Hyannis
508-790-3077 - K
Marta's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association
Trinity Circle
Oak Bluffs
(508) 693-0525 - L
Martha's Vineyard Museum
151 Lagoon Pond Road
Vineyard Haven
508-627-4441 - M
Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
291 State Highway Route 6
South Wellfleet
(508) 349-2615 - N
Massachusetts Air and Space Museum
The Landing (capetown Plaza)
790 Iyannough Road
Hyannis
508)827-6300 - O
Nantucket Historical Association Research Library & Archives
7 Fair Street
Nantucket
508-228-1894, press 5 - P
Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum
49 Union Street
Nantucket
5082281177 - Q
Nantucket Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum
158 Polpis Road
Nantucket
508-228-2505 - R
Nantucket Whaling Museum
13 Broad St.
Nantucket
508-228-1894 - S
The Oldest House/Jethro Coffin House
16 Sunset Hill
Nantucket
508-228-1894 - T
Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum
One High Pole Hill
Provincetown
508-487-1310
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