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  • Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum
    Come see the wonders of the sea at Key West's first attraction, The Key West Aquarium. Let our friendly staff bring our native waters to life with narrated tours and live shark feedings and pettings. Perhaps one of the most unique aquariums in the world, the Key West Aquarium.

  • Concord Museum
    Concord, Massachusetts is a community rich in historical association, renowned as the site of the battle that began the American Revolution and as the home of the most original thinkers and writers of the American literary renaissance. The Concord Museum is the one place where all of Concord's remarkable past is brought to life -- Algonkians, Puritans, Revolutionaries, Loyalists, Farmers, Silversmiths, Transcendentalists, Cabinetmakers, Anti-Slavery Activists, Mill-Workers.

  • DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
    The DeCordova Sculpture Park, encompassing 35 acres of rolling woodlands and lawns, is the largest park of its kind in New England. The Sculpture Park provides a constantly changing exhibition of large-scale, outdoor, contemporary American sculpture for 125,000 visitors each year. Lincoln, Massachusetts.

  • Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
    The Museum collection will include picture book art from around the world, and will have as its core the work of Eric Carle. Museum programs will foster a love of the visual arts and written word, facilitating collaborative relationships with preschools, schools, educators and students of children's literature and art.

  • Harvard University Art Museums
    The Harvard University Art Museums is one of the leading arts institutions in the United States and the world. It is distinguished by the range and depth of its collections and its groundbreaking exhibitions and original research. For more than a century it has been the nation’s premier training ground for museum professionals and scholars, and it is renowned for its seminal and ongoing role in the development of the discipline of art history in this country. Massachusetts.

  • Hidden Hills Historical Museums
    Tour the Historical Museums of the Hidden Hills of Western Massachusetts and re-live life as it used to be in a simpler time.

  • Historic Deerfield
    Historic Deerfield is a museum of New England history and art within the carefully preserved 330 year old western Massachusetts village of Deerfield.

  • Kendall Whaling Museum
    Uniquely beautiful treasures of maritime art, history, and nature, artworks, artifacts, and curiosities, spanning more than ten centuries and seven continents. Sharon, Massachusetts.

  • Marine Museum at Fall River
    Welcome to The Marine Museum at Fall River where you will see one of the world's largest TITANIC exhibit. A 28 foot detailed model is the centerpiece in the collection of artifacts and memorabilia. The famous R. M. S. Titanic, so carefully designed to be called "unsinkable", on her maiden voyage took 1500 people with her to a watery grave on April 14, 1912. The museum's collection includes photographs taken by the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institution, a recorded account of the tragedy by a Titanic survivor, and a video tape of the vessel's discovery. Fall River, Massachusetts.

  • Massachusetts - Museum of Science, Boston
    The mission of the Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts is to stimulate interest in and further understanding of science and technology. The Museum has remained on the cutting edge of science education by developing innovative and interactive exhibits and programs that both entertain and educate.

  • Massachusetts - The Children's Museum of Boston
    Welcome to The Children's Museum, Boston's best place for kids and families! The Museum is fun for kids ages 0-10 (and older siblings, too), plus provides resources for parents, teachers and early childhood development.

  • MIT Museum
    Welcome to MIT Museum! Founded in 1971, MIT Museum collects, preserves, and exhibits materials which serve as a resource for the study and interpretation of the intellectual, educational, and social history of MIT and MIT's role in the history of modern science and technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  • Museum Loan Network
    Museum Loan Network promotes collection sharing by faciltating and funding the long-term loan of artworks among museums throughout the United States. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  • Museum of Science
    The mission of the Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts is to stimulate interest in and further understanding of science and technology and their importance for individuals and for society.

  • Museum of Transporation
    The Museum of Transportation is located in the historic 1888 Carriage House once owned by Larz and Isabel Anderson. The Andersons maintained a lavish summer estate, now called Larz Anderson Park, and began collecting new automobiles in 1899. Brookline, Massachusetts.

  • New Bedford Whaling Museum
    Exhibits and presentations pertaining to the whaling industry in New England provide tangible examples of the era and of people, places and artifacts referenced by Herman Melville. New Bedford, Massachusetts.

  • New England Museum Association
    The New England Museum Association is the only organization in New England serving museums of all sizes and the people who work for and with them. You'll find professional development opportunities, news, information, and the experience of more than 1600 of your colleagues. Boston, Massachusetts.

  • New England Science Center
    The mission of EcoTarium is to promote appreciation, increase knowledge and foster stewardship of our New England environment by stimulating learning about the world in which we live. Massachusetts.

  • Norman Rockwell Museum
    Welcome to the Norman Rockwell Museum in the beautiful Berkshire mountains of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where Norman Rockwell spent the last 25 years of his life. His brilliant career spanned over 60 years, leaving behind a legacy of images that helped define American identity through the 20th century.

  • Old Sturbridge Village - Massachusetts
    Old Sturbridge Village includes more than 40 staffed exhibits -- historic homes, craft shops, mills, and farm buildings -- on more than 200 acres of fields and rolling farmland. Award-winning flower and herb gardens add color to this pathway to the past. Special events include haying contests, music and dance demonstrations, garden days, a celebration of crafts, an 1830s wedding, and visits from such special guests as Daniel Webster and P.T. Barnum. Visit the center village, the heart of the early 19th-century community; then discover the farms, shops, and mills of the countryside and mill neighborhood. Now you can also take a relaxing ride along the Quinebaug River and learn about the importance of waterways to early New Englanders.

  • Orchard House - Home of the Alcotts
    Orchard House/Home of the Alcotts is a historic house museum owned and operated by the Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association. The Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association is a private, not-for-profit corporation, founded in 1911. The Association provides the financial and human resources required to conduct public tours, special programs, exhibits and the curatorial work which continue the tradition of the Alcotts, a unique Nineteenth Century family. Concord, Massachusetts.

  • Peabody Essex Museum
    USA's oldest continuously operating museum, founded in 1799. Maritime arts and history; American decorative arts; early American architecture; Asian export art; Asian, Oceanic, African arts and culture; natural history; native American arts. Salem, Massachusetts.

  • Plimoth Plantation
    Plimoth Plantation in the living history museum of 17th century Plymouth Colony. Its exhibits, visited by over 500,000 people a year include the 1627 Pilgrim Village, Hobbamock's Wampanoag Indian Homesite, Mayflower II and the Carriage House Crafts Center. It is open from April through November and is best known for its first-person living history exhibits. Plymouth, Massachusetts.

  • Public Health Museum in Massachusetts
    The Public Health Museum in Massachusetts is housed in the Old Administration Building of Tewksbury Hospital. Illustrates public health history and educates public about current health issues and new programs. Focus is on public health contributions of New England states.

  • Salem Witch Museum
    The Salem Witch Museum brings you there, back to Salem 1692. Visitors are given a dramatic history lesson using stage sets with life-size figures, lighting and a narration - an overview of the Witch Trials of 1692. Salem, Massachusetts.

  • Smith College Museum of Art
    With a world-famous collection spanning an impressive 4,500 years, and a tradition since its inception of making its holdings available to students and the public, the Smith College Museum of Art is also a leader in collecting and showing the art of our day. Massachusetts.

  • Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
    Located in the Berkshires, the Clark is a fine arts museum particularly well-known for its many French impressionist paintings, including more than thirty by Renoir. Also included are noteworthy old master paintings and a significant group of American works by such artists as Homer, Sargent, Cassatt, and Remington. Massachusetts.

  • The Fogg Art Museum
    The Fogg Art Museum, which opened to the public in 1895, is Harvard's oldest art museum. Around its Italian Renaissance courtyard, based on a sixteenth-century façade in Montepulciano, Italy, are galleries illustrating the history of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, with particular strengths in Italian early Renaissance, British pre-Raphaelite, and nineteenth-century French art. Massachusetts.

  • The Sandwich Glass Museum
    The Museum tells the story of a Massachusetts farming community and of Deming Jarves, an entrepreneur from Boston. It is the story of America at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution and one of the 19th-centuries greatest glass factories, the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company.

  • The Springfield Museums at the Quadrangle
    Welcome to the historic Quadrangle where four distinctive museums and a major urban resource library are clustered around a tree-shaded green. You'll discover masterpieces of American, European and Asian paintings, sculpture and decorative arts, plus dinosaurs, wildlife exhibits, arms and armor, "please touch" exhibits for children, an aquarium, a planetarium, a genealogy research library, early aviation artifacts and much, much more at this unique museum complex. Massachusetts.

  • Wenham Museum
    The museum is a delightful resource for education, cultural experience and entertainment for all ages, dedicated to the history of family life from the 17th century to the present. Come and learn how we have lived, dressed and worked, explore the treasures of childhood, play and remember in our interactive exhibits, and enjoy a full schedule of education programs and special events. Wenham, Massachusetts.

  • Worcester Art Museum
    The Worcester Art Museum is fortunate to have approximately 50 docents who give enriching and enjoyable tours of the Museum's collections and exhibitions to more than 18,000 visitors each year. Massachusetts.


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