Museums in Boston and Massachusetts Celebrating ‘Museum Day Live!’
Photo by Olga Khvan
Each year, Smithsonian magazine hosts Museum Day Live!, a nationwide event during which participating museums open their doors to the public for free.
This year, the free museum day is on Saturday, September 27. To get free admission, all you have to do is present a Museum Day Live! ticket at the door, which you can find at smithsonianmag.com/museumday.
Here are the 57 museums in Massachusetts participating in Museum Day Live! 2014 this weekend:
Museum of Russian Icons
203 Union Street, Clinton
Martha’s Vineyard Museum
59 School Street, Edgartown
John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site (free every day)
83 Beals Street, Brookline
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College (free every day)
41 Quadrangle Drive, Amherst
Salem Witch Museum
19 1/2 Washington Sq. North, Salem
The Shirley-Eustis House
33 Shirley Street, Boston
Jackson Homestead and Museum
527 Washington Street, Newton
Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds
286 Waverley Avenue, Newton
American Textile History Museum
Museums 491 Dutton Street, Lowell
Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site (free every day)
105 Brattle Street, Cambridge
Herman Melville’s Arrowhead
780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield
Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Road, Winchester
Concord Museum
200 Lexington Road, Concord
Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History
241 Wellesley Street, Weston
Atwood House Museum Chatham Historical Society
347 Stage Harbor Road, Chatham
The Gardner Museum
28 Pearl Street, Gardner
Emily Dickinson Museum
280 Main Street, Amherst
Old Colony Historical Society
66 Church Green, Taunton
Harvard Semitic Museum (free every day)
6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Wistariahurst Museum
238 Cabot Street, Holyoke
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (free every day)
1 Oxford Street, Science Center 371, Cambridge
Garden in the Woods
180 Hemenway Road, Framingham
EcoTarium
222 Harrington Way, Worcester
Wenham Museum
132 Main Street, Wenham
The Discovery Museums
177 Main Street, Acton
The Mary Baker Eddy Library, Home of the Mapparium
200 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston
Forbes House Museum
215 Adams Street, Milton
Fruitlands Museum
102 Prospect Hill Road, Harvard
Armenian Museum of America
65 Main Street, Watertown
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery (free every day)
1 College Street, Worcester
Gibson House Museum
137 Beacon Street, Boston
The House of the Seven Gables
115 Derby Street, Salem
Yiddish Book Center (free every day)
1021 West Street , Amherst
Cape Ann Museum
27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester
Nichols House Museum
55 Mount Vernon Street, Boston
Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Memorial Hall Museum
8 Memorial Street, Deerfield
Otis House
141 Cambridge Street, Boston
Cogswell’s Grant
60 Spring Street, Essex
Gedney House
21 High Street, Salem
Codman Estate
34 Codman Road, Lincoln
Winslow Crocker House
250 Route 6A, Yarmouth Port
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
125 West Bay Road, Amherst
Merwin House
14 Main Street, Stockbridge
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Sandwich Glass Museum
129 Main Street, Sandwich
Old South Meeting House
310 Washington Street, Boston
Swift River Valley Historical Society (free every day)
40 Elm Street, New Salem
Fruitlands Museum
102 Prospect Hill Road, Harvard
Worcester Historical Museum
30 Elm Street, Worcester
The Bidwell House Museum
100 Art School Road, Monterey
Naumkeag Home & Gardens
5 Prospect Street, Stockbridge
The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation (free every day)
2 North Grove Street, Boston
Museum of African American History
46 Joy Street, Boston
Custom House Maritime Museum
25 Water Street, Newburyport
The Great House at Castle Hill
290 Argilla Road, Ipswich
