Historic Sites & Museums
Celebrate a rich and fascinating history around every corner. Grand landmarks combine with fine museums to preserve and interpret local and regional culture, both ancient and modern.
Regional Museums
Blue Hills Trailside Museum
Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum
Commonwealth Museum
Concord Museum
Custom House Maritime Museum
Davis Museum & Cultural Center
deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum
Dedham Museum & Archive
Historic Deerfield Museum & Flint Center of Early New England Life
Gore Place Museum
Hammond Castle Museum
Hull Lifesaving Museum
Jason Russell House & Smith Museum
John F. Kennedy Library & Museum
Larz Anderson Auto Museum
Marine Museum at Fall River
Massachusetts Archives
M.I.T. Museum
Museum of African American History
Museum of Science & Hayden Planetarium
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
New England Aquarium
New Bedford Whaling Museum
Newton History Museum at Jackson Homestead
Nichols House Museum
Old State House Museum
Peabody Essex Museum
Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum
Salem Witch Museum
Sandwich Glass Museum
Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History
U.S.S. Constitution Museum
Wenham Museum
Worcester Historical Museum & Library
Natural History
Preservation Organizations
American Antiquarian Society
Cambridge Historical Society
New England Historic Genealogy Society
Massachusetts Historical Commission
Massachusetts Historical Society
The Mayflower Society
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Titanic Historical Society
Historic Sites
Adams National Historic Site
Battleship Massachusetts
Beauport Sleeper-McCann House
Blackstone River & Canal Heritage State Park
Buckman Tavern
Bunker Hill Monument
Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House
Charlestown Navy Yard
Colonel Josiah Quincy House
Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
Hancock-Clarke House
Hancock Shaker Village
Harrison Gray Otis House
Hooper-Lee-Nichols House
The House of the Seven Gables
John F. Kennedy National Historic Site
King’s Chapel
Lawrence Heritage State Park
Longfellow National Historic Site
Lowell National Historical Park
Lyman Estate “The Vale”
Lynn Heritage State Park
Minute Man National Historical Park
National Historical Park
Old North Church
Old South Meeting House
Old Sturbridge Village
Orchard House, Home of the Alcotts
Park Street Church
Paul Revere House
Plimoth Plantation
Quincy Homestead
Roxbury Heritage State Park
Royall House
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Saugus Ironworks National Historic Site
U.S.S. Cassin Young
The Wayside