You know those museums that are really quiet and you can’t touch anything? These are definitely not those museums. Take the Boston Children’s Museum. It’s one-of-a-kind, world-renowned center for enrichment. But the kids don’t care about that. They just like that it’s as fun as a barrel of monkeys. The Museum of Science has scary dinosaurs, loud electric bursts, and an Imax screen the size of a basketball court, and it’s still extremely educational. The Kidspace at Mass MoCA has really mind-blowing art, including some uniquely interactive work. At the Discovery Museums in Acton, kids can bounce a ball three stories high or engineer their own train track. Of course, if your family loves those quiet museums, we have plenty of those too.
Watch a video on Edith Wharton’s The Mount in Lenox.
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Marblehead
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Fall River
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Gloucester
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Belmont
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Newburyport
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Lexington Visitors Center
1875 Massachusetts Ave.
Lexington
781-862-1450 - B
Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House
399 Lexington Road
Concord
978-369-4118 - C
Lowell National Historical Park and Boott Cotton Mills Museum
246 Market St.
Lowell
978-970-5000 - D
Lyman Estate Mansion and Greenhouses, A Historic New England Property
185 Lyman Street
Waltham
617-994-5912 - E
Marblehead Museum
170 Washington Street
161 Washington Street
Marblehead
7816311768 - F
Marine Museum at Fall River
70 Water Street
Fall River
508 674 3533 - G
Maritime Gloucester
23 Harbor Loop
Gloucester
978 281-0470 - H
Marta's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association
Trinity Circle
Oak Bluffs
(508) 693-0525 - I
Martha's Vineyard Museum
151 Lagoon Pond Road
Vineyard Haven
508-627-4441 - J
Martin House Farm
22 Stoney Hill Road
At Route 6
Swansea
617-742-3190 - K
The Mary Baker Eddy Library
200 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston
617-450-7000 - L
Mass Audubon Blue Hills Trailside Museum
1904 Canton Avenue
Milton
617-333-0690 - M
Mass Audubon Habitat Education Center & Wildlife Center
10 Juniper Road
Belmont
617-489-5050 - N
Mass Audubon Joppa Flats Education Center and Wildlife Sanctuary
1 Plum Island Turnpike
Newburyport
978-462-9998 - O
Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
291 State Highway Route 6
South Wellfleet
(508) 349-2615 - P
MASS MoCA
1040 Mass Moca Way
North Adams
413-662-2111 - Q
Massachusetts Golf Hall of Fame and Museum
300 Arnold Palmer Blvd.
Norton
774-430-9100 - R
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston
617-536-1608 - S
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
41 Quadrangle Drive
Amherst
413-542-2335 - T
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
2450 Beacon St
Boston
617-277-0065
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