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
Concord Museum
Concord
Concord Visitor Center
Concord
Crane Museum of Papermaking
Dalton
Cricket Creek Farm
Williamstown
Cultural Alliance of Medfield
Medfield
Cyrus Dallin Art Museum
Arlington
The Daniel Webster Estate
Marshfield
Derby Wharf Light
Salem
Dewey Memorial Hall
Sheffield
The District Center for the Arts
Taunton
Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds
Newton
Duxbury Rural and Historical Society
Duxbury
East Chop Lighthouse
Oak Bluffs
Eastern Point Light
Gloucester
Eastern States Exposition
West Springfield
Edgartown Lighthouse
Edgartown
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
Boston
Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate
Canton
The Emily Dickinson Museum
Amherst
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Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
1 Oxford St
Cambridge
1-617-495-2779 - B
Concord Museum
53 Cambridge Turnpike
Concord
978-369-9763 - C
Concord Visitor Center
58 Main Street
Concord
978-318-061 - D
Crane Museum of Papermaking
Dalton
Dalton
413-684-6380 - E
Cricket Creek Farm
1255 Oblong Road
Williamstown
413-458-5888 - F
Cultural Alliance of Medfield
45 Hospital Road
Medfield
617-877-5158 - G
Cyrus Dallin Art Museum
611 Massachusetts Avenue
Arlington
781-641-0747 - H
The Daniel Webster Estate
238 Webster Street
Marshfield
781-834-0548 - I
Derby Wharf Light
Salem Harbor
Salem
978-740-1660 - J
Dewey Memorial Hall
91 Main Street
Sheffield
(413) 229-2357 - K
The District Center for the Arts
15 Court St
Taunton
5083869413 - L
Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds
286 Waverley Avenue
Newton
617.641.9142 - M
Duxbury Rural and Historical Society
479 Washington Street
Duxbury
781-934-6106 - N
East Chop Lighthouse
229 East Chop Dr.
Oak Bluffs
508-627-4441 - O
Eastern Point Light
Gloucester Harbor
Gloucester
978-281-8865 - P
Eastern States Exposition
1305 Memorial Avenue
West Springfield
800-334-2443 - Q
Edgartown Lighthouse
131 North Water Street
Edgartown
508-627-4441 - R
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
Columbia Point
Boston
617-740-7000 - S
Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate
2468 B Washington St.
Rte. 138
Canton
978.356.4351 x8814; 781.821.2996 - T
The Emily Dickinson Museum
280 Main Street
Amherst
413.542.8161
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