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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Burial Hill
Plymouth
Buttonwoods Museum
Haverhill
Cape Ann Museum
Gloucester
Cape Cod Maritime Museum
Hyannis
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
Brewster
Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation
Waltham
Church of the Presidents, United First Parish Church, Quincy
Quincy
Codman Estate Carriage House
Lincoln
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Cambridge
Concord Museum
Concord
Concord Visitor Center
Concord
Crane Museum of Papermaking
Dalton
The Daniel Webster Estate
Marshfield
Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds
Newton
Duxbury Rural and Historical Society
Duxbury
Eastern States Exposition
West Springfield
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
Boston
The Emily Dickinson Museum
Amherst
ENQ ~ Explore North Quabbin
Orange
Eustis Estate
Milton
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Burial Hill
School Street
Plymouth
508-830-4078 - B
Buttonwoods Museum
240 Water St
Haverhill
9783744626 - C
Cape Ann Museum
27 Pleasant St
Gloucester
9782830455 - D
Cape Cod Maritime Museum
135 South St.
Hyannis
(508) 775-1723 - E
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main Street/route 6a
Brewster
508-896-3867 - F
Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation
154 Moody Street
Waltham
781-893-5410 - G
Church of the Presidents, United First Parish Church, Quincy
1306 Hancock Street
Quincy
617-773-0062 - H
Codman Estate Carriage House
34 Codman Road
Lincoln
617-994-6671 - I
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
1 Oxford St
Cambridge
1-617-495-2779 - J
Concord Museum
53 Cambridge Turnpike
Concord
978-369-9763 - K
Concord Visitor Center
58 Main Street
Concord
978-318-061 - L
Crane Museum of Papermaking
Dalton
Dalton
413-684-6380 - M
The Daniel Webster Estate
238 Webster Street
Marshfield
781-834-0548 - N
Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds
286 Waverley Avenue
Newton
617.641.9142 - O
Duxbury Rural and Historical Society
479 Washington Street
Duxbury
781-934-6106 - P
Eastern States Exposition
1305 Memorial Avenue
West Springfield
800-334-2443 - Q
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
Columbia Point
Boston
617-740-7000 - R
The Emily Dickinson Museum
280 Main Street
Amherst
413.542.8161 - S
ENQ ~ Explore North Quabbin
131 West Main Street
Room 222
Orange
978-549-1747 - T
Eustis Estate
1424 Canton Avenue
Milton
617-994-6600
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