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Essex National Heritage Area
National Park
Category: Essex County National Park in Massachusetts
Description of this Massachusetts Attraction: The Essex National Heritage Area begins just 10 miles north of Boston and extends for 40 miles along the scenic coast of Massachusetts. The Area is characterized by white, sandy beaches interspersed with rugged granite outcroppings, and overlaid by 400 years of New England history and culture. From the Atlantic Ocean up the Merrimack River, this 550-square-mile region features historic seaports, white clapboard buildings, renown art and cultural museums, antique farms, wooden boat-building shops, early industrial mill complexes, and significant wildlife refuges - both on-shore and off-shore. The Area is instilled with authentic Yankee character. Three significant themes of American history can be easily experienced within its boundaries: early colonial settlement, maritime commerce and sailing, and New Englands early Industrial Revolution. The Area contains two National Park sites and hundreds of historic structures, museums, and natural resources, and it is within an easy day trip of Boston by train or car. For more information, please visit www.essexheritage.org.
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Exotic Flowers Boston Red Sox Celebration
Two-dozen unique Red Sox items on display & for sale!
Category: Boston Attraction Packages in Massachusetts
Description of this Boston Attraction: More than two-dozen unique Boston Red Sox items, including a David Ortiz autographed jersey, bat, helmet, photo, an actual base from the 2007 World Series game, Jason Varitek's batting helmet, Julio Lugo's cracked bat, Jacob Ellsbury's equipment bag, the 2008 season bullpen phone, and more, are on display and for sale at Exotic Flowers and the bottom of the stairs of the upper rotunda, middle building, Faneuil Hall Marketplace.
Exotic Flowers, the official greenhouse for the Boston Red Sox, is also celebrating the April 20, 1912 opening of Fenway Park.
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Harvard Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs, meteorites, Glass Flowers, hundreds of animals
Category: Cambridge Museum in Massachusetts
Description of this Cambridge Attraction: Explore 12,000 specimens from around the globe at the University's most visited museum – dinosaurs,
meteorites, gemstones and hundreds of animals. Get close to the world’s only mounted
Kronosaurus, a 42 ft-long marine reptile; a 1,642-lb. amethyst geode; whale skeletons.
Don’t miss the world famous exhibit of 3,000 Blaschka ‘Glass Flowers’, and the small exhibition of Glass Sea Creatures--jellies and anemones by the same glass artists who made the Glass Flowers. Includes admission to the adjacent
Peabody Museum – archaeology and cultures of six continents.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
A beautiful art museum housed in a Venetian palace
Category: Boston Museum in Massachusetts
Description of this Boston Attraction: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a work of art itself. Housed in a Venetian-inspired palace, turned inside-out and surrounding an ever-changing interior courtyard garden, the museum’s collection spans more than 30 centuries and features artworks by master artists including Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Degas and Sargent. Continuing the legacy of its founder, changing contemporary and historic scholarly exhibitions, the oldest museum music program in the country, an ever-changing interior courtyard garden display, innovative Artist-in-Residence and School and Community Partnerships programs, and yearly special events and free-days continue to enrich the permanent collection and provide ongoing inspiration for visitors old and new.
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Mass Audubon's Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary
One of Massachusetts' last great open spaces
Category: Marshfield Nature near Plymouth, Massachusetts
Description of this Plymouth area Attraction: Daniel Webster once owned the land, and it was visited by Henry David Thoreau and John James Audubon. Today this wildlife sanctuary comprises more than 500 acres of open cultural (manmade and maintained) grasslands, Webster Pond, the Green Harbor River, twin red maple swamps and a wet panne with observation blinds at either end. Wildlife thrives here, from hawks, harriers and owls that hunt mice and voles throughout the colder months to the bobolinks, tree swallows and purple martins that nest here each and every year. White-tailed deer, red and gray foxes, coyotes and numerous other species of mammals utilize the land as well. Public programs are offered throughout the year and include interpretive hayrides through the grasslands, birding programs, questing and more.
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Minute Man National Historical Park
National Park
Category: Lexington National Park near Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description of this Cambridge area Attraction: At Minute Man National Historical Park, the Battles of Lexington and Concord are brought to life through the preservation, restoration and interpretation of significant sites from "that famous day and year" when Colonists took up arms in defense of liberty and touched off the American Revolution.
At Concord's North Bridge, visitors can see the place where, on April 19, 1775, Colonial militia men fired the famous "shot heard 'round the world." Reflect on the meaning of freedom in a tranquil, commemorative landscape that includes Daniel Chester French's Minute Man Statue.
Along our five-mile "Battle Road Trail" you can travel back in time through a restored colonial landscape and retrace the steps of the British Regulars as they made the long and deadly journey back to Boston under fire from thousands of Colonial militia men. Parts of this trail follow the original route of the old "Battle Road" of April 19, 1775.
Along the way, stop in and visit the Hartwell Tavern, a restored 18th-century tavern on Battle Road. It is now a "living history" center staffed by costumed Park Rangers who can offer you a glimpse of life in Revolutionary times.
At the Wayside: Home of Authors, learn about Concord's "second revolution" as you visit the home of Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of America's most famous authors of the 19th century who helped define our American identity.
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Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Ten galleries featuring exquisite comprehensive collection
Category: South Hadley Art Museum in Massachusetts
Description of this Massachusetts Attraction: The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum may be one of the oldest collegiate museums in the United States, but it’s also one of the liveliest. Recently renovated and expanded to house ten galleries, the museum maintains an exquisite comprehensive collection of more than 11,000 objects, ranging from ancient Egypt, China, and Peru to contemporary America. Primary strengths include Asian art, 19th- and 20th-century European and American, paintings and sculpture, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art, medieval sculpture, early Italian Renaissance paintings, and an extensive collection of prints, drawings, and photographs.
Known for its lively, intellectual, and imaginative special exhibitions, the museum also hosts related gallery talks, lectures, and occasional concerts that are open to the public. Admission is free, although donations are welcome. For groups of eight or more, docent-led group tours are available with at least a three-week advance notice. For more than a decade, the museum has sponsored an education program for local school children. Through direct experience with artifacts and original works or art, children who participate learn about history, world cultures, and archaeology. For information, visit www.mtholyoke.edu/go/artmuseum or call 413/538-2245.
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