Visit These Boston and Massachusetts Museums for Free on ‘Museum Day Live!’
This Saturday, September 26, is Museum Day Live!, an annual event organized by Smithsonian magazine that offers free admission to participating institutions all over the country. It’s hosted in the spirit of the Smithsonian museums in Washington D.C., which offer free admission every day.
Sixty institutions all over Massachusetts are celebrating this year’s event. To gain free admission, people can sign up on smithsonianmag.com/museumday/tickets, where they can request and then download a ticket to one participating venue. Each ticket will grant free admission for two people.
Here are the 60 local museums that are opening their doors for free on Museum Day Live! this Saturday:
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
American Textile History Museum
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 & Postal History
Regis College, 241 Wellesley St., 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 History Museum
66 Church Green, Taunton
Harvard Semitic Museum (free every day)
6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge
Wistariahurst Museum
238 Cabot Street, Holyoke
Garden in the Woods
180 Hemenway Rd., Framingham
EcoTarium
222 Harrington Way, Worcester
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
Armenian Museum of America
65 Main Street, Watertown
Gibson House Museum
137 Beacon Street, Boston
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, Harvard University, Cambridge
Memorial Hall Museum
8 Memorial Street, Deerfield
Otis House
141 Cambridge Street, Boston
Cogswell’s Grant
60 Spring Street, Essex
Merwin House
14 Main Street, Stockbridge
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 Rd, Amherst
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Ave., Boston
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
11 Divinity Avenue, Harvard University, Cambridge
Worcester Historical Museum
30 Elm Street, Worcester
The Bidwell House Museum
100 Art School Road, Monterey
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, Beacon Hill, Boston
Custom House Maritime Museum
25 Water Street, Newburyport
The Great House at Castle Hill
290 Argilla Road, Ipswich
Old South Meeting House
310 Washington Street, Boston
Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds
286 Waverley Ave., Newton
John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum Foundation
397 Main Street, PO Box 2488, Hyannis
Blue Hills Trailside Museum
1904 Canton Ave., Milton
Marine Museum at Fall River
70 Water Street, Fall River
Battleship Cove
5 Water Street, Fall River
Wenham Museum
132 Main Street, Wenham
USS Constitution Museum
Building 22, Charlestown Navy Yard, Charlestown
John Cabot House
117 Cabot St., Beverly
Naumkeag House and Gardens
5 Prospect Hill Rd, Stockbridge
The Old Manse
269 Monument Street, Concord
Springfield Museums
21 Edwards Street, Springfield
Williams College Museum of Art (free every day)
15 Lawrence Hall Dr Suite 2, Williamstown
Sandwich Glass Museum
129 Main Street, Sandwich
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
The Suffolk Resolves House (free every day)
1370 Canton Avenue, Milton