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Boston Area Museums, Historic Sites, and Cultural Activities

ACT Roxbury
Boston African American National Historic Site
Boston Athenaeum
Boston by Foot
Boston Center for Jewish Heritage
Boston Children's Museum
Boston Harbor Islands
Boston HarborFest
Boston History and Architecture
Boston National Historic Park
Boston NOW Arts Calendar- City of Boston Office of Cultural Affairs
Boston Public Library
Boston Women's History Trail
Chinatown Heritage Project
City of Boston Archaeology Department
Commonwealth Museum
Franklin Park Zoo
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
The Freedom Trail Foundation
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Gibson House Museum
Greater Boston History Project: Roads to History (6 historic trails)
Harvard Map Collection
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Harvard University Art Museums
Historic New England
Institute of Contemporary Art
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site
JFK Library and Museum
Larz Anderson Auto Museum
Learning By Design--MA

Longfellow National Historic Site
Longyear Museum
Mary Baker Eddy Library and Mapparium
MIT Museum
Museum for the National Center of Afro-American Artists
Museum of Afro-American History
Museum of Science
Museum of Fine Arts
MYTOWN, Inc.
New England Aquarium
New England Sports Museum
Newton History Museum
Nichols House Museum
Old North Church
Old South Meeting House
Paul Revere House
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Royall House and Slave Quarters
Shirley-Eustis House
USS Cassin Young
USS Constitution Museum

Historical Societies and Organizations

Bay State Historical League
Boston History & Innovation Collaborative
Boston Preservation Alliance
The Bostonian Society
Brighton-Allston Historical Society
Cambridge Historical Society
Chinese Historical Society of New England
City of Boston Archives
Facing History and Ourselves
Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau
Historic Boston, Inc.
Historic Neighborhoods
Irish Massachusetts
Jamaica Plain Historical Society
Massachusetts Historical Society
Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism
Massachusetts State Archives
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Newton Historical Society
Historic New England
Preservation Massachusetts
South End Historical Society

New England Sites and Museums

North of Boston

American Textile History Museum
Essex National Heritage Area
Lowell National Historical Park
New England Quilt Museum
Peabody Essex Museum
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site
Stone Zoo

South of Boston

Adams National Historical Park
Battleship Cove
Cape Cod National Seashore
Edward Gorey House
Fuller Craft Museum
New Bedford Whaling National Historic Park
Plimoth Plantation
Whaling Museum (Nantucket)

West of Boston

American Antiquarian Society
Appalachian National Scenic Trail
Basketball Hall of Fame
Concord Museum
Davis Museum and Cultural Center
Discovery Museums
Historic Deerfield
John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Minute Man National Historical Park
National Heritage Museum
Old Manse
Old Schwamb Mill
Old Sturbridge Village
Orchard House
Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor
Springfield Armory National Historic Site
Tower Hill Botanic Garden

Farther Afield

United States

American History Workshop
Cincinnati Museum Center
Heinz History Center (Pittsburgh)
International Spy Museum (Washington, DC)
Lower East Side Tenement Museum (New York City)
Museum of the City of New York
National Baseball Hall of Fame (Cooperstown, New York)
National Constitution Center (Philadelphia)
National Museum of American History (Washington, DC)
National World War I Museum (Kansas City, MO)
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (Kansas City, MO)
New York Historical Society
Oakland Museum of California
Sports Musuem of American (New York City)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC)

The World

Apartheid Museum (Johannesburg)
Imperial War Museum (London)
Musee Carnavalet (Paris)
Musee Pointe-a-Calliere (Montreal)
Museum of London

The Future of the Greenway

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy
Big Dig (sponsored by Mass Turnpike Authority)
Beyond the Big Dig (sponsored by The Boston Globe)
Future Boston