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Regional preservation organization stewarding dozens of historic house museums and landscapes across New England.
Andover, MA · University
One of the earliest museums dedicated to American art, part of Phillips Academy Andover.
Lowell, MA · University
Successor collection of the ATHM interpreting American textile industry through UMass Lowell.
Fall River, MA · Maritime
World's largest collection of preserved WWII naval vessels including the USS Massachusetts.
Pittsfield, MA · Art
Multidisciplinary art, natural science and history museum with an aquarium and Little Cinema.
Boston, MA · Childrens
One of the oldest and most influential children's museums in the U.S., on Fort Point Channel.
Boston, MA · History
Floating museum with restored tea ships interpreting the events of December 16, 1773.
Cotuit, MA · Art
American art in a Cape Cod house museum setting, with a focus on New England artists.
Gloucester, MA · Art
Regional art and history museum with the finest collection of Fitz Henry Lane paintings.
Dennis, MA · Art
Museum focused on the art of Cape Cod and the Islands, with over 3,000 works and a sculpture garden.
Brewster, MA · Science
Natural science museum with trails through marsh, beach and woodland habitats.
Stockbridge, MA · Historic House
Country estate of Daniel Chester French, sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial statue.
Williamstown, MA · Art
Art museum and research center known for Impressionist masterworks in a Tadao Ando–expanded campus.
Concord, MA · History
Collections and exhibitions on the Revolution, Thoreau and the literary history of Concord.
Framingham, MA · Art
A university art museum with a strong collection of American art and the Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller holdings.
Lincoln, MA · Art
Thirty acres of contemporary outdoor sculpture with a museum of rotating exhibitions.
Acton, MA · Childrens
Hands-on children's and science museum with the Discovery Woods outdoor play area.
Worcester, MA · Science
Museum of science and nature with a digital planetarium, animal exhibits and outdoor trails.
Boston, MA · History
An interactive civics museum centered on a full-scale representation of the United States Senate chamber.
Amherst, MA · Historic House
Homestead and The Evergreens preserving the world of poet Emily Dickinson and her family.
Fall River, MA · Historic House
History museum in an 1843 granite mansion with the largest collection of Lizzie Borden artifacts.
Fitchburg, MA · Art
A regional art museum with collections spanning ancient art through contemporary New England artists.
Harvard, MA · Art
A Trustees property combining the Transcendentalist Fruitlands farmhouse with art, Shaker and Native American collections.
Boston, MA · Historic House
Intact Victorian Back Bay townhouse preserved as a museum of Gilded Age domestic life.
Winchester, MA · Art
A museum dedicated entirely to photography, with exhibitions, lectures and education programs.
Pittsfield, MA · History
Living history museum on the site of the third Shaker community, with the iconic Round Stone Barn.
Cambridge, MA · University
Fogg, Busch-Reisinger and Arthur M. Sackler collections unified in a Renzo Piano–reimagined building.
Cambridge, MA · University
Public face of three Harvard research museums, home of the Glass Flowers.
Cambridge, MA · University
Museum of the ancient Near East with collections spanning Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Levant and Cyprus.
Sandwich, MA · Art
100-acre American history museum campus with folk art, antique autos, and gardens.
Worcester, MA · History
The former Higgins arms and armor collection now presented within the Worcester Art Museum.
Hull, MA · Maritime
The story of lifesaving and maritime rescue on Boston Harbor, housed in a historic lifesaving station.
Boston, MA · Art
Contemporary art museum on the Boston waterfront in a landmark Diller Scofidio + Renfro building.
Boston, MA · Art
Venetian-inspired palazzo housing the personal collection of Isabella Stewart Gardner.
Boston, MA · History
I.M. Pei–designed presidential library and museum devoted to the life and legacy of JFK.
Cambridge, MA · Historic House
Home of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Washington's Cambridge headquarters in 1775–76.
Concord, MA · History
The home where Louisa May Alcott wrote and set Little Women, preserved with Alcott family furnishings.
Lowell, MA · Industrial Heritage
National park telling the story of America's Industrial Revolution through Lowell's textile mills.
North Adams, MA · Art
One of the largest centers for contemporary visual and performing arts in the U.S., in a 26-building factory campus.
Amherst, MA · University
Amherst College art museum with 19,000+ works spanning ancient to contemporary.
Concord, MA · History
The battle road and sites of April 19, 1775, with visitor centers interpreting the outbreak of the Revolution.
Cambridge, MA · University
Museum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showcasing MIT research, holography and kinetic art.
Cambridge, MA · Historic Site
America's first landscaped rural cemetery and a National Historic Landmark arboretum.
Boston, MA · History
Preserves and interprets African American history in Massachusetts through the Black Heritage Trail sites.
Boston, MA · Art
Encyclopedic art museum with nearly 500,000 works spanning ancient Egypt to contemporary art.
Clinton, MA · Art
One of the largest collections of Russian icons outside Russia, with scholarship and exhibition programs.
Boston, MA · Science
One of the world's largest science centers, with the Charles Hayden Planetarium and Mugar Omni Theater.
Stockbridge, MA · Historic House
Stanford White–designed country estate and Fletcher Steele–designed gardens operated by The Trustees.
New Bedford, MA · Art
Community art museum in a former public library celebrating the SouthCoast's creative culture.
New Bedford, MA · Maritime
World's largest museum devoted to the global story of whales and whaling, on a National Historical Park.
Boston, MA · Historic House
Bulfinch-attributed Beacon Hill townhouse preserved as the home of writer Rose Standish Nichols.
Stockbridge, MA · Art
The world's largest collection of original Norman Rockwell art on his final home's grounds.
Boston, MA · Historic Site
Boston's oldest surviving church building, famed for the 1775 "one if by land, two if by sea" signal.
Sturbridge, MA · History
The largest living history museum in the Northeast, recreating early 19th-century New England.
Boston, MA · Historic House
Federal-style Bulfinch mansion, headquarters of Historic New England.
Boston, MA · Historic House
Colonial home of Paul Revere and the oldest remaining structure in downtown Boston.
Salem, MA · Art
One of the oldest continuously operating museums in the U.S., renowned for maritime, Asian and American art.
Cambridge, MA · University
One of the oldest anthropology museums in the world, part of Harvard.
Plymouth, MA · History
Founded in 1824, the oldest continuously operating public museum in the United States, with Pilgrim possessions.
Plymouth, MA · History
A living history museum interpreting 17th-century Wampanoag homesite and English colonial life.
Provincetown, MA · Art
Historic art association and museum documenting the century-old Provincetown art colony.
Salem, MA · Historic House
Circa-1727 Georgian house museum on the Peabody Essex Museum campus.
Salem, MA · Maritime
First National Historic Site in the National Park System, preserving Salem's maritime heritage.
Salem, MA · History
Museum devoted to interpreting the 1692 Salem witch trials.
Sandwich, MA · History
Local history museum devoted to the 19th-century Boston & Sandwich Glass Company and Cape Cod history.
Northampton, MA · University
One of the finest college art museums in the U.S., known for 19th- and 20th-century painting and sculpture.
Springfield, MA · Art
Five-museum quadrangle including the Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum, art, history and science.
Salem, MA · Historic House
17th-century seaside mansion made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel of the same name.
Amherst, MA · University
UMass Amherst museum focused on 20th- and 21st-century American and international art.
Boston, MA · Maritime
Museum interpreting the history of USS Constitution — Old Ironsides — the world's oldest commissioned warship afloat.
Wenham, MA · History
Family-focused museum with dolls, toys, model trains and North Shore history collections.
West Yarmouth, MA · Maritime
Museum built around artifacts from the pirate ship Whydah Gally, wrecked off Cape Cod in 1717.
Williamstown, MA · University
One of the finest college art museums in the U.S., with 15,000 works in the historic Lawrence Hall.
Worcester, MA · Art
Encyclopedic art museum with 38,000 works spanning 5,000 years and the Higgins Armory collection.
Amherst, MA · Cultural Heritage
Cultural institution devoted to rescuing Yiddish books and telling the story of modern Jewish culture.
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