Free Admission on Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day
Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day is a one-day event in which participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide free entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket. Participants are allowed to download one ticket per email address. The ticket provides free general admission on Saturday, September 22, 2018, for two people.
There are more options than the 21 places we have listed here, but we narrowed our search to the SouthCoast area and the Boston area.
1. Battleship Cove, Fall River
Hours: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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2. Eustis Estate, Milton
Hours: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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3. Falmouth Museums on the Green, Falmouth
Hours: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
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4. Gibson House Museum, Boston
Hours: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
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5. Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
Hours: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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6. Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge
Hours: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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7. John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum Foundation, Hyannis
Hours: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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8. Mattapoisett Museum, Mattapoisett
Hours: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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9. Museum of African American History, Boston
Hours: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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10. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Hours: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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11. New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford
Hours: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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12. Nichols House Museum, Boston
Hours: 11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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13. Old Colony History Museum, Taunton
Hours: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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14. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge
Hours: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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15. Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth
Hours: 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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16. Quincy Homestead, Quincy
Hours: 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. (Free every day)
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17. Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum, New Bedford
Hours: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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18. Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich
Hours: 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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19. The Children's Museum in Easton, North Easton
Hours: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
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20. The Mary Baker Eddy Library, Boston
Hours: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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21. The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation, Boston
Hours: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. (Free every day)
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