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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Public Health Museum in MA
Tewksbury
Quincy Homestead
Quincy
Real Pirates Salem
Salem
Rebecca Nurse Homestead
Danvers
Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum
New Bedford, Ma
Salem Museum
Salem
Salem Old Town Hall
Salem
Salem Witch Museum
Salem
Sandwich Glass Museum
Sandwich
Schooner Adventure
Gloucester
Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, Inc.
Shelburne Falls
The Shirley-Eustis House
Boston
South Shore Irish Heritage Trail
Scituate
Springfield Museums
Springfield
The Stone House Museum
Belchertown
Storrowton Village Museum
West Springfield
Susan B Anthony Birthplace Museum
Adams
Thoreau Farm: Birthplace of Henry David Thoreau
Concord
The Trustees
Boston
U.S.S. Salem CA139, United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum
Quincy
- A
Public Health Museum in MA
365 East Street
Old Administration Building
Tewksbury
978-851-7321 EXT. 2606 - B
Quincy Homestead
34 Butler Road
Quincy
617-742-3190 - C
Real Pirates Salem
285 Derby Street
On Historic Charlotte Forten Park
Salem
855-747-2830 - D
Rebecca Nurse Homestead
149 Pine St.
Danvers
978-774-8799 - E
Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum
396 County St.
New Bedford, Ma
508-997-1401 - F
Salem Museum
32 Derby Square
Salem
978-744-0007 - G
Salem Old Town Hall
32 Derby Square
Box 4551
Salem
978-606-7426 - H
Salem Witch Museum
19 1/2 Washington Square North
Salem
800.544.1692 - I
Sandwich Glass Museum
129 Main St.
Sandwich
508-888-0251 - J
Schooner Adventure
Po Box 1306
Gloucester
978-281-8079 - K
Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, Inc.
14 Depot St
Po Box 272
Shelburne Falls
4136259443 - L
The Shirley-Eustis House
33 Shirley Street
Boston
617-442-2275 - M
South Shore Irish Heritage Trail
Po Box 132
Scituate
781-545-4732 - N
Springfield Museums
21 Edwards St.
Springfield
413-263-6800 - O
The Stone House Museum
20 Maple St.
Belchertown
413-323-6573 - P
Storrowton Village Museum
1305 Memorial Avenue
West Springfield
413-205-5051 - Q
Susan B Anthony Birthplace Museum
67 East Rd
On The Corner Of East Rd And East St
Adams
4137437121 - R
Thoreau Farm: Birthplace of Henry David Thoreau
341 Virginia Road
Concord
5082419601 - S
The Trustees
200 High Street
4th Floor
Boston
617.542.7696 x2123 - T
U.S.S. Salem CA139, United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum
549 South Street
Pier 3
Quincy
617-479-7900
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