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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Amherst Business Improvement District
Amherst
Arrowhead
Pittsfield
Beneski Museum of Natural History @ Amherst College
Amherst
Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield
Bidwell House Museum
Monterey
Crane Museum of Papermaking
Dalton
Eastern States Exposition
West Springfield
The Emily Dickinson Museum
Amherst
ENQ ~ Explore North Quabbin
Orange
Hancock Shaker Village
Pittsfield
Historic Deerfield
Deerfield
Keep Homestead Museum
Monson
The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home
Lenox
Museum of Our Industrial Heritage
Greenfield
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Springfield
Naumkeag
Stockbridge
Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, Inc.
Shelburne Falls
Springfield Museums
Springfield
The Stone House Museum
Belchertown
Storrowton Village Museum
West Springfield
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Amherst Business Improvement District
35 South Pleasant Street
Amherst
413-345-2945 - B
Arrowhead
780 Holmes Rd.
Pittsfield
413-442-1793 - C
Beneski Museum of Natural History @ Amherst College
11 Barrett Hill Drive
Box 5000
Amherst
413-542-5054 - D
Berkshire Museum
39 South St (route 7)
Pittsfield
413-443-7171 - E
Bidwell House Museum
100 Art School Rd.
Monterey
413-528-6888 - F
Crane Museum of Papermaking
Dalton
Dalton
413-684-6380 - G
Eastern States Exposition
1305 Memorial Avenue
West Springfield
800-334-2443 - H
The Emily Dickinson Museum
280 Main Street
Amherst
413.542.8161 - I
ENQ ~ Explore North Quabbin
131 West Main Street
Room 222
Orange
978-549-1747 - J
Hancock Shaker Village
1843 W Housatonic St. (routes 20 & 41)
Po Box 927
Pittsfield
413-443-0188 - K
Historic Deerfield
80 Old Main St.
(off Rts. 5 And 10)
Deerfield
413-775-7214 - L
Keep Homestead Museum
35 Ely Rd.
Mailing: 110 Main St.
Monson
413-267-4137 - M
The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home
2 Plunkett St.
Lenox
413-551-5111 - N
Museum of Our Industrial Heritage
2 Mead Street
Greenfield
413-336-8275 - O
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
1000 Hall Of Fame Avenue
Springfield
877-4Hoopla - P
Naumkeag
5 Prospect Hill Rd.
Stockbridge
413.298.3239 - Q
Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, Inc.
14 Depot St
Po Box 272
Shelburne Falls
4136259443 - R
Springfield Museums
21 Edwards St.
Springfield
413-263-6800 - S
The Stone House Museum
20 Maple St.
Belchertown
413-323-6573 - T
Storrowton Village Museum
1305 Memorial Avenue
West Springfield
413-205-5051
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