Top rated History museums in Lexington, United States to elevate your visit (Updated March, 2024)

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👍👍 Great tour about Pirate history and Pirate lives. If anyone is looking for an authentic pirate museum, This is the place! Informative, accommodating and knowledgeable staff. A fun experience for people of all ages!

4.90 (1.1K reviews) (~28.49 km from centre)

American Heritage Museum

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👍👍 A must visit! Oh my it is an incredible museum! It starts with a movie then a cool bunker scene with another film and effects and then one more room with a film about WWII starting. Then we walk into an incredible room with SO many tanks and a few airplanes. So amazing. We learned a lot and had so...

4.90 (1K reviews) (~23.83 km from centre)

Eustis Estate Museum and Study Center

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👍👍 Very nice estate, beautiful furnishings and grounds.

4.90 (231 reviews) (~25.65 km from centre)

Longyear Museum

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👍👍 One of my favorite experiences when traveling through Boston. Its shows mary baker eddy is not just special to those she inspired, she is an icon and should be seen as such. She made significant contributions to women suffrage by showing what was possible. Without this museum it would have been hard...

4.90 (36 reviews) (~14.58 km from centre)

Boott Cotton Mills Museum

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Museum in an old mill with historical exhibits on industry & manufacturing, plus guided tours.

4.80 (355 reviews) (~23.28 km from centre)

USS Constitution Museum

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Interactive museum near the 1797 wooden frigate made famous as "Old Ironsides" in the War of 1812.

4.70 (7K reviews) (~16.1 km from centre)

Larz Anderson Auto Museum

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Collection of antique motors & vintage bikes displayed in a château -style Victorian carriage house.

4.70 (798 reviews) (~16.9 km from centre)

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

Library

President Kennedy exhibits, videos & research collections in a striking I.M. Pei–designed building.

$ $$$

4.70 (774 reviews) (~21.37 km from centre)

Hancock-Clarke House

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A childhood home of John Hancock, built in 1738, is open for guided tours (except in winter).

4.70 (107 reviews) (~0.77 km from centre)

The Pickering House

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👍👍 Amazing! We had a wonderful tour with Amanda. So many cool facts about this house. I sat where George Washington sat, held a piece of the USS Constitution, touch a 3,000 year old Native American tool, and walk THROUGH the original fireplace. Incredible history and a wonderfully engaging tour guide....

4.70 (48 reviews) (~27.75 km from centre)

Public Health Museum in Massachusetts

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👍👍 Wish more of the original buildings were still standing, but what is there is intriguing. The Tewksbury State Hospital was once a 1,000 acre self-supporting city. It housed orphanages, hospitals, asylums, dorms for men and women, farms and everything else necessary for life. The Public Health Museum...

4.70 (43 reviews) (~18.19 km from centre)