Museum Day Live! is an annual event created by Smithsonian Magazine in which participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day Live! ticket.

Step 1: Browse the list below.

Step 2: Contact the museum to confirm.  Note: Participating institutions that aren’t open on Saturday are honoring tickets for free admission on Sunday, September 25.

Step 3:  Download a ticket here.  Each ticket is good for two people.

Note: If you’re interested in history, including events and exhibits at history museums and historic sites, you can subscribe to weekly lists for the states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut here.  These are published every Wednesday night by The History List and are open to all individuals and organizations with history-related events, exhibits, and walks.  Learn more about submitting events here.

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ACTON, MA
The Discovery Museums

AMHERST, MA
Beneski Museum of Natural History at Amherst College – Free everyday
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College – Free everyday
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Yiddish Book Center

BOSTON, MA
Gibson House Museum
Museum of African American History – Free everyday
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Nichols House Museum
Old South Meeting House
Otis House
The Mary Baker Eddy Library
The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation – Free everyday
The Shirley-Eustis House

BROOKLINE, MA
John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site – Free everyday

CAMBRIDGE, MA
Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

CHARLESTOWN, MA
USS Constitution Museum Smithsonian Affiliate Museums – Free everyday

CHATHAM, MA
Atwood House Museum Chatham Historical Society

CLINTON, MA
Museum of Russian Icons

CONCORD, MA
Concord Museum
The Old Manse

EDGARTOWN, MA
Martha’s Vineyard Museum

ESSEX, MA
Cogswell’s Grant

FALL RIVER, MA
Battleship Cove
Marine Museum at Fall River
The Children’s Museum of Greater Fall River

FALMOUTH, MA
Falmouth Museums on the Green

FRAMINGHAM, MA
Garden in the Woods

GARDNER, MA
The Gardner Museum

GLOUCESTER, MA
Cape Ann Museum

LINCOLN, MA
Codman Estate

MILTON, MA
Mass Audubon’s Trailside Museum

NEWTON, MA
Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds
Jackson Homestead and Museum

PITTSFIELD, MA
Herman Melville’s Arrowhead

SALEM, MA
Salem Witch Museum

SANDWICH, MA
Sandwich Glass Museum

SPRINGFIELD, MA
Springfield Museums

STOCKBRIDGE, MA
Merwin House

TAUNTON, MA
Old Colony History Museum

WATERTOWN, MA
Armenian Museum of America

WENHAM, MA
Wenham Museum

WESTON, MA
Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA
Williams College Museum of Art – Free everyday

WORCESTER, MA
EcoTarium
Worcester Art Museum

YARMOUTH PORT, MA
Winslow Crocker House

 

Compiled from information provided on Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day Live site.