USA Today needs your help voting for the best museums in the country and a few finalists are right here in Massachusetts and New England.

With over 35,000 museums in the U.S., how do you narrow it down?

Well, they have, in a variety of categories. They've selected museums from across the country to be finalists in Best Children's Museum, Best Free Museum, Best History Museum, Best Museum Ship, Best Music Museum, Best Open-Air Museum, Best Planetarium, Best Pop Culture Museum, Best Science Museum and Best Small Town Museum.

Finalists in all 10 categories can be voted on by you to become the best in the country. Here are the local museums in the running:

BEST MUSEUM SHIP:

Battleship Cove - Fall River, MA

USS Constitution - Boston, MA

USS Nautilus at The Submarine Force Museum - Groton, CT

BEST OPEN-AIR MUSEUM:

Mystic Seaport Museum - Mystic, CT

Plimoth Patuxet Museums - Plymouth, MA

Strawbery Banke Museum - Portsmouth, NH

BEST PLANETARIUM:

Charles Hayden Planetarium at Museum of Science - Boston, MA

Freedom Energy Logistics Planetarium - Concord, NH

BEST POP CULTURE MUSEUM:

Barker Character, Comic and Cartoon Museum - Cheshire, CT

Count Orlok's Nightmare Gallery - Salem, MA

BEST SMALL TOWN MUSEUM:

Concord Museum - Concord, MA

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Did some of your favorites make the cut?

Voting ends Monday, February 10 at noon. Winners will be announced Wednesday, February 19.

If you want to vote for your favorite, you can only cast one vote per category each day. So make it count and let's put some local museums on the map.

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