Washburn-Norlands Living History Center
Livermore, Maine
207-897-4366
www.norlands.org
The Norlands is Maine’s oldest living history museum and working farm. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and is the ancestral home of the Washburn Family, one of America’s great political and industrious families of the 19th-century.
Today, the Washburn’s 400-acre property is home to the 1867 Washburn mansion, an 1883 granite library, an 1828 meeting house, and a restored one-room schoolhouse. The Norlands offers a variety of year-round interactive programming including guided tours, meal, laugh and learns, tea parties, 24-48 hour live-ins, and more.
Hopkinton Center for the Arts
Hopkinton, Massachusetts
508-435-9222
www.hopartscenter.org
Created in 2011, Hopkinton Center for the Arts (HCA) is a non-profit community arts center that fosters and celebrates the creative spirit. The region’s cultural destination serving individuals of all ages, cultures, and artistic abilities across the MetroWest region, HCA develops artistic skills, offers outstanding artistic performances and exhibitions, and enables visitors to experience art in all forms. Under one roof, HCA celebrates art through classes and events in visual art, theater, music, dance, ceramics, writing, and film.
Mariposa Museum
Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
508-338-2779
mariposamuseum.org/oakbluffs
The Mariposa Museum in Oak Bluffs explores American history and experience through a diverse lens. The Museum presents exhibits and programs that encourage a more inclusive understanding of our country’s journey and that inspire a more compassionate and just world through the creativity of a variety of artists, scholars, storytellers, and performers, and in collaboration with all who cherish Oak Bluffs’ historic, welcoming spirit.
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