Museums in Massachusetts

The New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts displays what it calls the world's largest ship model.

Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

This interactive museum is dedicated to the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution” and founder of one of the nation’s earliest boomtowns.

This historic home and museum celebrates the life story of the female founder of the American Red Cross.

The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

The Inuit kayak from Robert Peary's 1896 expedition to Greenland is now on display at a local library.

The oldest continuously inhabited private home in the United States.

The oldest philatelic museum in the United States.

Explore the odd assortment of items that have washed up on the beaches of Plum Island.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

Take a step inside the picturesque studio of America’s most renowned sculptor.

A single room pays homage to the prodigious achievements of the 30th President of the United States.

This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.

The owner of one of the oldest homes in Amherst had a unique request before the home could be turned into a museum.