Fun In New England - Massachusetts

Museums in Northeastern Massachusetts

Total found in this region of Massachusetts: 46
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Abbot Hall
188 Washington Street
Marblehead, MA
Type: Art, History
Town hall and historical museum that contains the famous "Spirit of '76" painting by Archibald Willard in the Selectmen's Room; ...


American Textile History Museum
491 Dutton Street
Lowell, MA
Type: Technology
Status: Temporarily closed


Beauport
75 Eastern Point Boulevard
Gloucester, MA
Type: Historic House
An interesting former summer home of, Henry Davis Sleeper, one of America's first professional interior designers; Built in 1907...


Boardman House
17 Howard Street
Saugus, MA
Type: Historic House
Status: Seasonal
A National Historic Landmark built in 1692 with an addition added by 1696; The house is a very well preserved example of 17th an...


Civil War & Grand Army of the Republic Museum
1 Market Square (Old Town House, 2nd floor)
Marblehead, MA
Type: History
Status: Seasonal
Located on the second floor of the Old Town House, a late Georgian style house built in 1768 and used by the town. Owned by the ...


Coffin House
14 High Road
Newbury, MA
Type: Historic House
Status: Seasonal
A house that was occupied by the Coffin family over three centuries; The original part was built in 1678, and other rooms were a...


Cogswell's Grant
60 Spring Street
Essex, MA
Type: Historic House
A 1728 farmhouse and 165-acre property overlooking the Essex River that was the home to Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little who ...


Cotting-Smith Assembly House
138 Federal Street
Salem, MA
Type: Historic House
Built as a Federalist Clubhouse in 1782; later owned and remodeled by Samuel McIntire


Count Orlok's Nightmare Gallery
285 Derby Street
Salem, MA
Type: Other
Salem's only horror movie monster museum; life-sized replicas of creatures; may also screen horror movies on weekends


Crowninshield-Bentley House
126 Essex Street
Salem, MA
Type: Historic House
Historic house built by Captain John Crowninshield circa 1727-30; open for tours


Derby House
168 Derby Street
Salem, MA
Type: Historic House
Oldest brick house in Salem; built circa 1762 by Richard Derby for his son, Elias, who became America's first millioniare; open ...


Dole-Little House
289 High Road
Newbury, MA
Type: Historic House
Status: Seasonal
A restored house that was originally built around 1715


East India Marine Hall
East India Square
Salem, MA
Type: History
Former home of the East India Marine Society; built in 1824; now part of the Peabody Essex Museum


Gardner-Pingree House
128 Essex Street
Salem, MA
Type: Historic House
Built in 1805; large town house with a lavish interior; open for tours


Gedney House
21 High Street
Salem, MA
Type: Historic House
A historic house that has undergone significant renovations since the original portion was built in 1665 by shipwright Eleazer G...


Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center
23 Harbor Loop
Gloucester, MA
Type: History
"Dedicated to the preservation of Gloucester's maritime industrial history" (and fishing industry); features the oldest continuo...


Hammond Castle Museum
80 Hesperus Avenue
Gloucester, MA
Type: History
Former home of John Hays Hammond, Jr., the "Father of Remote Control" and America's second greatest inventor after Thomas Alva E...


Hawkes House
4 Custom Court (off Derby St)
Salem, MA
Type: Historic House
Built circa 1780; at one time it was used as a warehouse for Revolutionary privateers; open for tours


House of the Seven Gables
115 Derby Street
Salem, MA
Type: Historic House
Officially called the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, this is the house made popular by Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The House of the ...


Jeremiah Lee Mansion & Gardens
161 Washington Street
Marblehead, MA
Type: Historic House
Status: Seasonal
A late Georgian style house built in 1768. Now owned by the Marblehead Museum (Marblehead Historical Society). Admission: $10 (a...


John Heard House
54 South Main Street
Ipswich, MA
Type: Historic House
Federal-style mansion built circa 1800


John Ward House
Brown Street
Salem, MA
Type: Historic House
House built by John Ward circa 1684; open for tours


John Whipple House
1 South Village Green
Ipswich, MA
Type: Historic House
Mid-17th century house built by a sea captain


Lowell National Historical Park
246 Market Street
Lowell, MA
Type: History
Several buildings which were former mills chronicle the 19th century textile industry; includes Market Mills (Visitor Center Ins...


Lynn Heritage Park
590 Washington Street
Lynn, MA
Type: History
Features a Visitors Center with exhibits on the history of Lynn, especially the city's manufacturing history (shoes, electrical ...


Marblehead Museum
170 Washington Street
Marblehead, MA
Type: History
This is the main address of the Marblehead Museum and location of the J.O.J. Frost Gallery. John Orne Johnson Frost was a folk a...


Nathaniel Bowditch House
9 North Street
Salem, MA
Type: Historic House
Built in 1805; undergoing restoration


New England Pirate Museum
274 Derby Street
Salem, MA
Type: History
A 20 to 30 minute professionally guided walking tour. Features a recreated colonial seaport, a pirate ship you can board, and ...


North Shore Children's Museum
294 Essex Street
Salem, MA
Type: Childrens


Peabody Essex Museum
161 Essex Street (East India Square)
Salem, MA
Type: Art
The oldest continuously operating museum in America; 300 years of New England's heritage; American, Asian, Indian, Native Americ...


Peirce-Nichols House
80 Federal Street
Salem, MA
Type: Historic House
Built in 1782 by one of the biggest India traders of the 18th century, Jerathmiel Peirce; remodeled in 1801 by Samuel McIntire; ...


Phillips House
34 Chestnut Street
Salem, MA
Type: Historic House
A Federal-style mansion built in 1821 and renovated in the early 1900s which showcases how the well-to-do lived in the early 20t...


Pickering House
18 Broad Street
Salem, MA
Type: Historic House
Built in 1651; "Oldest house continuously occupied by the same family"


Public Health Museum in Massachusetts
365 East Street (Tewksbury Hospital)
Tewksbury, MA
Type: Science
Exhibits relating to public health, hospitals, disease treatment and prevention


Rocky Hill Meeting House
4 Old Portsmouth Road
Amesbury, MA
Type: Historic House
A very well preserved church meeting house from 1785 that has not been used for regular religious services since the 1840s; Free...


Ropes Mansion
318 Essex Street
Salem, MA
Type: Historic House
Georgian style house built in 1727; renovated in 1894; home to the Ropes family for three generations


Salem Witch Museum
19 1/2 Washington Square
Salem, MA
Type: History
"Visitors are given a dramatic history lesson using stage sets with life-size figures, lighting and a narration - an overview of...


Spellbound Museum
190 Essex Street
Salem, MA
Type: Other
Museum of the supernatural world; professional ghost hunters have nightly tours of known haunted locations


Stevens-Coolidge Place
139 Andover Street
North Andover, MA
Type: History, Historic House
91 acre gardens and historic home (now a museum)


Swett-Ilsley House
4 High Road
Newbury, MA
Type: Historic House
One of the oldest surviving houses in the area; It was originally a small building constructed in 1670. It was the first propert...


The Crane Estate
290 Argilla Road
Ipswich, MA
Type: Historic House
A 59-room mansion and surrounding lands atop Castle Hill; The current mansion was completed in 1928; Now owned by the Trustees o...


The True Story of Lizzie Borden
203 Essex Street
Salem, MA
Type: History
A museum dedicated to the woman who was accused of killing her father and stepmother with an axe in 1892 in Fall River, MA


The Witch House
310 Essex Street (9 North St.)
Salem, MA
Type: Historic House
Former home of Judge Jonathan Corwin who served in the court of the 1692 Witchcraft Trials and helped convict the women; house w...


Wenham Museum
132 Main Street
Wenham, MA
Type: History
Circa 1690 Claflin-Richards House; "explore how we have lived, worked, dressed and played from the 17th century to today" [quote...


Westford Museum
2 Boston Road
Westford, MA
Type: History
"The Museum houses a wonderful collection of artifacts typical of small towns." [quote from website]


Whale Center of New England
24 Harbor Loop
Gloucester, MA
Type: Science
A not-for-profit research institution; public Visitor's Center opened June 2004