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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Gallows Hill Museum /Theatre
Salem
Gedney House Museum, A Historic New England Property
Salem
The House of the Seven Gables
Salem
Peabody Essex Museum
Salem
Phillips House Museum, A Historic New England Property
Salem
Real Pirates Salem
Salem
Salem Museum
Salem
Salem Old Town Hall
Salem
Salem Witch Museum
Salem
New England Pirate Museum
Salem
Colonial seaport, pirate cave, and 60 life-size pirates including notorious captains Kidd and Blackbeard. more
Witch Dungeon Museum
Salem
Reenactment of witch trial; dungeon tour. more
Witch History Museum
Salem
Historically-accurate untold stories of 1692; live presentation and guided tour. more
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Gallows Hill Museum /Theatre
7 Lynde St.
Salem
978 825 0222 - B
Gedney House Museum, A Historic New England Property
Gedney House Museum
21 High Street
Salem
978-744-0440 - C
The House of the Seven Gables
115 Derby Street
Salem
978-744-0991 - D
Peabody Essex Museum
East India Square
Salem
800-745-4054 - E
Phillips House Museum, A Historic New England Property
34 Chestnut Street
Salem
978-744-0440 - F
Real Pirates Salem
285 Derby Street
On Historic Charlotte Forten Park
Salem
855-747-2830 - G
Salem Museum
32 Derby Square
Salem
978-744-0007 - H
Salem Old Town Hall
32 Derby Square
Box 4551
Salem
978-606-7426 - I
Salem Witch Museum
19 1/2 Washington Square North
Salem
800.544.1692 - J
New England Pirate Museum
274 Derby St.
Salem
978-741-2800 - K
Witch Dungeon Museum
16 Lynde St.
Salem
978-741-3570 - L
Witch History Museum
197-201 Essex St.
Salem
978-741-7770
Epic History: it's all here
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