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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American Heritage Museum
Hudson
Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company: Museum & Library
Boston
Behold Boston Tours
Boston
Boston's Dreamland Wax Museum
Boston
Bostonprivateguide
Brookline
Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds
Newton
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
Boston
Eustis Estate
Milton
Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Boston
Freedom Trail® Foundation
Boston
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cambridge
Hub Town Tours LLC
Boston
Jackson Homestead and Museum
Newton
Mass Audubon Blue Hills Trailside Museum
Milton
Mass Audubon Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary
Sharon
Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon
Canton
Old North Church
Boston
The Trustees
Boston
U.S.S. Salem CA139, United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum
Quincy
Boch Center
Boston
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American Heritage Museum
568 Main Street
Hudson
978-562-9182 - B
Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company: Museum & Library
Ahac, Armory, Fourth Floor
Faneuil Hall
Boston
617 227 1638 - C
Behold Boston Tours
137 Pearl St
Unit 4
Boston
6154826254 - D
Boston's Dreamland Wax Museum
1 Washington Mall
Boston
857-233-5437 - E
Bostonprivateguide
165 Newton Street
Brookline
6173064877 - F
Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds
286 Waverley Avenue
Newton
617.641.9142 - G
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
Columbia Point
Boston
617-740-7000 - H
Eustis Estate
1424 Canton Avenue
Milton
617-994-6600 - I
Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Merchants Row
Boston
617-242-5675 - J
Freedom Trail® Foundation
44 School Street, Suite 250
Boston
617-357-8300 - K
Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge
617-495-3045 - L
Hub Town Tours LLC
50 Beacon Street
Boston Common
Boston
844-HUB-TOWN - M
Jackson Homestead and Museum
527 Washington Street
Newton
6177961450 - N
Mass Audubon Blue Hills Trailside Museum
1904 Canton Avenue
Milton
617-333-0690 - O
Mass Audubon Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary
293 Moose Hill Parkway
Sharon
781-784-5691 - P
Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon
963 Washington St.
Canton
781-821-8853 - Q
Old North Church
193 Salem Street
Between Unity And Hull Streets
Boston
6175236676 - R
The Trustees
200 High Street
4th Floor
Boston
617.542.7696 x2123 - S
U.S.S. Salem CA139, United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum
549 South Street
Pier 3
Quincy
617-479-7900 - T
Boch Center
270 Tremont St
Boston
617-482-9393
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