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Discover 51 unusual museums in Massachusetts.
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Springfield, Massachusetts
Dr. Seuss Museum
A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.
Clinton, Massachusetts
The Icon Museum and Study Center
This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
The Oozing Whale Skeleton of New Bedford
For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.
Hudson, Massachusetts
American Heritage Museum
One of the largest public collection of historic armored and military vehicles in North America.
Petersham, Massachusetts
Fisher Museum Forestry Dioramas
This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.
South Hadley, Massachusetts
Joseph Allen Skinner Museum
One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.
Somerville, Massachusetts
Museum of Modern Renaissance
This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.
Amherst, Massachusetts
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
Sandwich Glass Museum
This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.
Waltham, Massachusetts
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.
Permanently Closed
Watertown, Massachusetts
The Plumbing Museum
Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.
Permanently Closed
Somerville, Massachusetts
Mµseum - The Tiny Museum
The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Nantucket Whaling Museum
Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.
Boston, Massachusetts
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.
Watertown, Massachusetts
Armenian Museum of America
Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.
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