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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Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
Boston
Middleborough Historical Association & Museum
Middleborough
Millers River Environmental Center
Athol
The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home
Lenox
Museum of African American History
Boston
Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon
Canton
Museum of Our Industrial Heritage
Greenfield
My Art Boston
Jamaica Plain
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Springfield
Nantucket Historical Association Research Library & Archives
Nantucket
Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum
Nantucket
Nantucket Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum
Nantucket
Nantucket Whaling Museum
Nantucket
National Black Doll Museum of History & Culture
Mansfield
Naumkeag
Stockbridge
New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center
New Bedford
New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford
Nichols House Museum
Boston
Old Colony History Museum
Taunton
The Old Manse
Concord
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Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
2450 Beacon St
Boston
617-277-0065 - B
Middleborough Historical Association & Museum
18 Jackson Street
Middleborough
781-361-1427 - C
Millers River Environmental Center
100 Main Street
Athol
978-248-9491 - D
The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home
2 Plunkett St.
Lenox
413-551-5111 - E
Museum of African American History
46 Joy Street, Boston
29 York Street, Nantucket
Boston
6177250022 x222 - F
Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon
963 Washington St.
Canton
781-821-8853 - G
Museum of Our Industrial Heritage
2 Mead Street
Greenfield
413-336-8275 - H
My Art Boston
865 Centre St.
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Jamaica Plain
6178936337 - I
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
1000 Hall Of Fame Avenue
Springfield
877-4Hoopla - J
Nantucket Historical Association Research Library & Archives
7 Fair Street
Nantucket
508-228-1894, press 5 - K
Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum
49 Union Street
Nantucket
5082281177 - L
Nantucket Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum
158 Polpis Road
Nantucket
508-228-2505 - M
Nantucket Whaling Museum
13 Broad St.
Nantucket
508-228-1894 - N
National Black Doll Museum of History & Culture
288 N.main Street
Mansfield
774-284-4729 - O
Naumkeag
5 Prospect Hill Rd.
Stockbridge
413.298.3239 - P
New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center
38 Bethel Street
New Bedford
508-993-8894 - Q
New Bedford Whaling Museum
18 Johnny Cake Hill
New Bedford
508-997-0046 - R
Nichols House Museum
55 Mount Vernon Street
Boston
617-227-6993 - S
Old Colony History Museum
66 Church Green
Taunton
5088221622 - T
The Old Manse
269 Monument St.
Concord
978-369-3909
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