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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Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Cambridge
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cambridge
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Cambridge
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
Cambridge
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Cambridge
The Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC) is a partnership of four Harvard museums; Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments,... more
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Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
1 Oxford St
Cambridge
1-617-495-2779 - B
Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge
617-495-3045 - C
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge
1-617-495-4631 - D
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
617-496-1027 - E
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
20 Oxford St.
Cambridge
617-496-1638
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