NEMA | Current Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions

Dear Museum-goer,

The New England region has an amazing number of museums, ranging from art to science to history to children’s museums and a few in-between. They range from all volunteer organizations to those with multi-million dollar budgets. So, what do they have in common? They’re all here to delight, entertain and educate you with exciting stories and treasured objects.

Let your imagination soar with this list of more than 400 NEMA member museums and their current exhibitions. For your convenience in planning your visit, we’ve provided links to the museums’ home pages when available.

Support our members and have a ball by visiting them and taking part in their programming. We’ll see you at the museum!

The NEMA Staff

Please note that this is not a complete listing of museums in New England but a portion that are Institutional Members of NEMA. Please visit the museum’s website for an up-to-date listing of exhibits and events.

NEMA Members:
Please note that this is not the Reciprocal Admissions Directory. For information on the Directory please visit the Publications section.

Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New York
Rhode Island
Vermont

Maine

Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor

Bangor Museum & Center for History, Bangor

Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston

Belfast Historical Society & Museum, Belfast

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick

Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk
• Windows on the Past: Kennebunk's History Through Architecture, ongoing
• Treasures of the Community, -ongoing
• Salon Style: Paintings from 1830 to 1920, -ongoing
• Renovations Revealed!, ongoing

Castine Scientific Society/The Wilson Museum, Castine

Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport

<--> Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville

Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland
• Louise Nevelson, ongoing

Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, Peaks Island

Kennebunkport Historical Society, Kennebunkport

L. C. Bates Museum, Hinckley (Fairfield)
• Living the good Will Idea, -ongoing

Maine Historical Society, Portland

Maine Maritime Museum, Bath
• A Maritime History of Maine, ongoing
• Distant Land of Palm and Spice: Maine Ships and Mariners in Deepwater Commerce, ongoing
• A Shipyard in Maine: Percy and Small and the Great Schooners, ongoing
• Lobstering and the Maine Coast, ongoing
• Snow Squall: The Last American Clipper Ship, ongoing

Maine State Museum, Augusta

Montpelier, The General Knox Museum, Thomaston

Moosehead Historical Society, Greenville

Museum L-A, Lewiston
• Portraits & Voices: Shoemaking Skills of Generations, ongoing

Museum of Yarmouth History, Yarmouth

Museums of Old York, York

Nylander Museum, Caribou

Ogunquit Museum of American Art, York

Owls Head Transportation Museum, Owl's Head
• A Century Ago: Transportation in ME During the Wright Era, ongoing
• The Tin Lizzie in Maine, ongoing

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Brunswick
• Northward Over the Great Ice: Robert E. Peary and the Quest for the North Pole, ongoing

Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport

Portland Museum of Art, Portland

Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, New Gloucester

Saco Museum, Saco
• Making History: Art and Industry in the Saco River Valley, ongoing
• Happy Camp of the Freebooters: Playing Through Time, 1750-1950, ongoing
• Art and Nature Thus Allied: Natural History and the Decorative Arts, ongoing

Seal Cove Auto Museum, Seal Cove

Skyline Farm, Yarmouth
• Carriage Museum, ongoing

Stanley Museum, Kingfield

Tate House Museum, Portland

Telephone Museum, Ellsworth

Tides Institute & Museum of Art, Eastport

University of New England, Biddeford

<--> Victoria Mansion, Portland

Willowbrook Museum Village, Newfield

Woodlawn Museum, Ellsworth

Massachusetts

Adams National Historical Park, Quincy

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover

Alden Kindred of America, Duxbury

American Textile History Museum, Lowell
• Textile Revolution: An Exploration through Space and Time, ongoing

Amherst College Museum of Natural History, Amherst
• Dinosaur Trackways, ongoing
• Geology of the Connecticut River Valley, ongoing

Amherst History Museum, Amherst

Ancient & Honorable Artillery, Boston

Andover Historical Society, Andover
• The Dirt on Argilla Road, -10/29/11

Arlington Historical Society/Smith Museum, Arlington
• Family Ties: 200 Years of Arlington Town Life, ongoing

Art Complex Museum, Inc., Duxbury

Ashland Historical Society, Ashland

Atheneum Society of Wilbraham, Wilbraham

Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro

Bartlett Museum, Amesbury

Bedford Historical Society, Bedford

Belchertown Historical Association, Belchertown

Berkshire Historical Society, Pittsfield

Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield
• Native Peoples: Northeast-Northwest, ongoing

Beverly Historical Society and Museum, Beverly

Bidwell House Museum, Monterey

Billerica Historical Society, Billerica

Boston Children's Museum, Boston
• Curious George™: Let's Get Curious!

Boston University, Art Gallery, Boston

Bostonian Society, Boston
• Every Picture Tells A Story, ongoing
• Our Favorite Things, ongoing

Bourne Historical Society, Inc., Bourne

<--> Brighton-Allston Heritage Museum, Brighton

Brookline Historical Society, Brookline

Brush Art Gallery & Studios, Lowell

Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit

Cambridge Historical Society, Cambridge

Cantor Art Gallery, Worcester

Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester

Cape Cod Children's Museum, Mashpee

Cape Cod Maritime Museum, Hyannis

Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis

Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, Brewster

Carpenter Museum, Rehoboth

Captain Forbes House Museum, Milton

Chatham Historical Society, Chatham
• Atwood House Museum, ongoing

<--> Chatham Marconi Maritime Center, North Chatham

Children's Museum at Holyoke, Holyoke

Children's Museum in Easton, North Easton
• Fetch Challenge Lab, ongoing
• Old Colony Children's Express, ongoing

Clara Barton Birthplace Museum, North Oxford

<--> Cohasset Historical Society, Cohasset

Col. Joshua Harnden Tavern & Museum, Wilmington

Commonwealth Museum, Boston

Concord Art Association, Concord

Concord Museum, Concord
• Why Concord?, ongoing

Cuttyhunk Historical Society, Cuttyhunk

Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum, Arlington

Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham

Danvers Historical Society, Danvers
• The Page House, ongoing

Davis Museum & Cultural Center, Wellesley

Dedham Historical Society Museum, Dedham

Dennis Historical Society, South Dennis

Devens Historical Museum/Fort Devens Museum, Devens

Discovery Museums, Acton
• Children's Museum, ongoing
• Dream Green: We Can Do It!, ongoing
• Solar Storms to Radio Waves, ongoing
• Bessie's Cove, ongoing

Dorchester Historical Society, Dorchester

Duxbury Rural & Historical Society, Duxbury
• Nathaniel Winsor, Jr. House, ongoing

Dyer Memorial Library, Abington

Eastham Historical Society - 1869 Schoolhouse, Eastham

EcoTarium, Worcester
• Cool Moves: The Artistry of Motion, -ongoing

Egan Maritime Institute, Nantucket

Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and The Evergreens, Amherst
• my Verse is alive, ongoing

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst

Essex National Heritage Commission, Salem

Essex Shipbuilding Museum, Essex

Fairbanks House, Dedham

Falmouth Historical Society, Falmouth

<--> Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg

Fitchburg Historical Society, Fitchburg

Framingham History Center, Framingham

Franklin Historical Commission, Franklin

Fruitlands Museum, Harvard
• Marie Spaeth: Amongst the Birches, ongoing

Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton
Traditions and Innovations: Fuller Craft Museum Collects, ongoing

George Peabody House Museum, Peabody
• On the Long Path to Women's Rights: Mary Upton Ferrin, 1810-1881, ongoing

Golden Ball Tavern Museum, Weston

Gore Place, Waltham

Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester
• Challenging Vision, -5/1/11

<--> Groton Historical Society, Groton

Halifax Historical Commission, Halifax

Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield

Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge
• Re-View, ongoing

Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge
• New England Forest Exhibition, -ongoing
• Great Mammal Hall, ongoing
• Arthropods: Creatures that Rule, ongoing
• Evolution, ongoing
• The Ware Collection of Glass Models of Plants -- "The Glass Flowers", ongoing
• Climate Change: Our Global Experiment, ongoing
• Zoological Galleries, ongoing
• Mineralogical Gallery, ongoing

Harwich Historical Society/Brooks Academy Museum, Harwich
• Cranberry Culture, ongoing

Haverhill Historical Society/Buttonwoods Museum, Haverhill

Heritage Museums & Gardens, Sandwich

Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester
• Beyond Belief: The Curious Collection of Professor Rufus Excalibur Bell, -June 2011

<--> Hingham Historical Society, Hingham

Historic Deerfield, Inc., Deerfield
• Into the Woods: Crafting Early American Furniture, ongoing
• Celebrating the Fiber Arts: The Helen Geier Flynt Textile Gallery, ongoing
• Engraved Powder Horns from the French and Indian War and the American Revolution: The William H. Guthman Collection, ongoing

Historic New England, Boston

Historic Newton, Newton
• Journey into Newton's Past
• Mapping a New Town: 1714-1874, ongoing
• The Jackson Homestead: The First 200 Years, ongoing
• Peeking into Newton's Toy Chest, ongoing
• Norumbega: Romance & Recreation by the River, ongoing

Historical Society of Old Newbury, Newburyport

Historical Society of Old Yarmouth, Yarmouth Port

Historical Society of Watertown, Watertown

Holliston Historical Society, Holliston

House of the Seven Gables, Salem

Hudson Historical Society, Hudson

Hull Lifesaving Museum Inc., Hull
• Point Allerton U.S. Lifesaving Station, ongoing
• Hoist, Heave, and Haul: Simple Machines at Sea, ongoing

Ipswich Museum, Ipswich
• Ipswich Painters Gallery, ongoing

Iron Work Farm in Acton, Inc., Acton

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum, Hyannis

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, Boston

Littleton Historical Society, Littleton

Longfellow's Wayside Inn, Sudbury

Longmeadow Historical Society, Longmeadow

Longyear Museum, Chestnut Hill
• Mary Baker Eddy: A Spiritual Journey, ongoing

Loring-Greenough House, Jamaica Plain

Lowell Historical Society, Lowell

Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell

<--> Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust, Lowell

Lynn Museum & Historical Society, Lynn

Malden Historical Society, Malden

Manchester Historical Society, Manchester
• Manchester, Then & Now: A Century of Change Through the Eye of the Camera, ongoing

Marblehead Historical Commission, Marblehead
• Maritime Room - Marblehead's Naval History, ongoing

Marblehead Museum & Historical Society, Marblehead

Maria Mitchell Association, Nantucket

Marion Art Center, Marion

Maritime & Irish Mossing Museum, Scituate

Martha's Vineyard Museum, Edgartown

Mary Baker Eddy Library, Boston
• Private Carriage, Public Journey, ongoing
• Quest Gallery, ongoing

Mass Audubon Visual Arts Center, Canton

Massachusetts Air & Space Museum, Inc., Andover

Massachusetts College of Art, Boston

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston

Mattapoisett Historical Society, Mattapoisett

Mead Art Museum, Amherst

Medford Historical Society, Medford

Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield
• Clothing: 18th to 20th Centuries, ongoing

Middlesex Canal Museum, North Billerica

Milton Art Museum, Canton

MIT Museum, Cambridge
> • Sampling MIT, ongoing
• MIT and The Sea: Pioneers in Ocean Exploration, ongoing
• Robots and Beyond: Exploring Artificial Intelligence at MIT, ongoing

Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly

Mount Estate and Gardens/Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc., Lenox

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley

Museum of African-American History, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Our Industrial Heritage, Greenfield

Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton

Museum of Science, Boston
• Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries, ongoing
• Colossal Fossil: Triceratops Cliff, ongoing

Nahant Historical Society, Nahant
• Nahant on the Rocks, ongoing

Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket
• Sperm Whale, ongoing

Natick Historical Society, South Natick

National Heritage Museum, Lexington

Needham Historical Society, Inc., Needham

New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford
• Portraits of a Port: New Bedford Navigates the World, ongoing

New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford

New England Quilt Museum, Lowell

Newburyport Maritime Society, Newburyport

Nichols House Museum, Boston

Noble & Cooley Center for Historic Preservation, Granville

Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge
• The Art of Norman Rockwell, ongoing

North Andover Historical Society, North Andover
• By the Sweat of Their Brow: Men and Women's Work Choices in the 19th Century, ongoing

Northboro Historical Society, Northborough

Norton Historical Society, Inc., Norton

Old Colony Historical Society, Taunton

Old South Meeting House, Boston
• If These Walls Could Speak, ongoing

Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge

Orchard House/Home of the Alcotts, Concord

Orleans Historical Society, Orleans

Osterville Historical Museum, Osterville

Paul Revere Memorial Association, Boston
• The Paul Revere House: A Home in Five Centuries, ongoing

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

Peabody Historical Society & Museum, Peabody

Peabody Museum, Harvard, Cambridge
• Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West, ongoing

Pelham Historical Society, Pelham

<--> Petersham Historical Society, Petersham

Pilgrim Society, Plymouth

Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth

Plymouth Antiquarian Society, Plymouth

Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown

Public Health Museum in Massachusetts, Tewksbury

Public History Department, Department of History, UMass Amherst

Quincy Historical Society, Quincy

Rotch-Jones-Duff House, New Bedford

Sharon Historical Society, Sharon

Sheffield Historical Society, Sheffield

Shelburne Historical Society, Shelburne Falls

<--> Shirley-Eustis House Association, Roxbury

Shrewsbury Historical Society, Shrewsbury

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton

Somerset Historical Society, Somerset

South End Historical Society, Boston

South Shore Natural Science Center, Inc., Norwell
• EcoZone, ongoing

Southborough Historical Society, Southborough
• Deerfoot Farms, ongoing

Southwick Historical Society, Southwick

Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History, Weston
• Rarities from the Collection, ongoing

Springfield Museums, Springfield
Connecticut Valley Historical Museum
Museum of Fine Art
Springfield Science Museum

Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

Sterling Historical Society, Sterling

Sudbury Historical Society, Sudbury

Storrowton Village Museum, West Springfield

Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum, Adams

Swampscott Historical Society, Swampscott

<--> Swift River Valley Historical Society, Leverett

Top Fun Aviation Toy Museum, Dracut

Townsend Historical Society, Townsend

Trinity Church in the City of Boston, Boston

Tryworks Collection, Inc., New Bedford

Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford

USS Constitution Museum, Boston
• All Hands on Deck: A Sailor's Life in 1812, ongoing
• The Barbary War: Piracy, Politics and Power, ongoing

University Gallery, UMass, Amherst

Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture, Boston
• Reconnect to Tapestry of the Boston Jewish Experience, ongoing

Waltham Historical Society, Waltham

WaterWorks Museum, Chestnut Hill

Wenham Museum, Wenham
• Innocence Captured: Child Portrait Photographs 1884-1910, -7/24/11

<--> West Boylston Historical Society, West Boylston

Westminster Historical Society, Westminster

<--> Westport Historical Society, MA, Westport

Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell

Whittier Home Association, Amesbury

Willard House & Clock Museum, North Grafton

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown

Winchendon Historical Society, Winchendon

Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke

Witch House, Salem

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester

Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester
• Art Since the Mid-20th Century, ongoing

New Hampshire

Aidron Duckworth Art Museum & Preservation Trust, Meriden

Alva deMars Megan Chapel Art Center, Manchester

<--> American Independence Museum, Exeter

Andover Historical Society, Andover

Aviation Museum of NH/New Hampshire Aviation Historical Society, Concord
• Grenier Field Exhibit, ongoing

Canterbury Shaker Village, Inc., Canterbury
• Things Rarely Seen: Shaker Furniture and Design from the Collections of Canterbury Shaker Village, ongoing

Castle Preservation Society, Moultonboro

Children's Museum of New Hampshire, Dover
• Yellow Submarine, ongoing
• Build It, Fly It, ongoing
• One World, ongoing

Currier Museum of Art, Manchester
• The Currier Museum of Art Collection, ongoing

Franklin Block Museum, Portsmouth

Enfield Shaker Museum, Enfield

Hillsborough Historical Society, Hillsborough

<--> Hood Museum of Art, Hanover
• Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, -ongoing

Horatio Colony House Museum, Keene

Laconia Historical & Museum Society, Laconia

<--> Lamont Gallery, Exeter

Londonderry Historical Society, Londonderry

Manchester Historic Association, Manchester
• Woven in Time: 11,000 Years at Amoskeag Falls, ongoing

Moffatt-Ladd House, NSCDA-NH, Portsmouth

Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham

Nashua Historical Society, Nashua

New England Ski Museum, Franconia

New Hampshire Boat Museum, Wolfeboro Falls

New Hampshire Farm Museum, Milton

Peterborough Historical Society, Peterborough

Sandwich Historical Society, Center Sandwich

Seacoast Science Center, Rye

Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth
• Becoming Americans: The Shapiro Story, 1898-1928, ongoing

Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene

Wakefield Heritage Commission, Sanbornville

Warner House Association, Portsmouth

Wentworth-Gardner & Tobias Lear Houses Assoc., Portsmouth

New York

Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, Canajoharie

Bard Graduate Center Library, New York

Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium, Schenectady
• Power House, ongoing

<--> Slate Valley Museum, Granville
• Thrust from the Sea: The Geology and Geography of the Slate Valley of New York and Vermont, ongoing
• The Dream and the Reality: Immigration and Assimilation in the Slate Valley, 1840-Present, ongoing
• From Pack Peddlers to Professionals: Jewish Life in the Slate Valley, 1840-Present, ongoing
• HEAVY LIFTING: A Human and Technological History of Moving Slate from Quarry to Market, 1850-Present, ongoing

Southold Historical Society, Southold

Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill

World Awareness Children's Museum, Glens Falls

Rhode Island

Audubon Society of Rhode Island, Bristol

Beavertail Lighthouse Museums Association, Jamestown

Culinary Arts Museum, Providence
• Food on the Move: America's Traveling Tastes, ongoing

Fort Adams Trust, Newport

Friends of Hearthside, Lincoln

Gilbert Stuart Museum, Saunderstown

Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Providence
• Reimagining the Americas (Manning Hall, Brown University), ongoing

Heritage Harbor Corporation, Providence

International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum, Newport

Linden Place Museum, Bristol

Little Compton Historical Society, Little Compton

Mount Hope Farm, Bristol

Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, Providence
• All Things Connected: Native American Creations, ongoing
• Natural Selections: Treasures from the Museum's Collections, ongoing

<--> Museum of Primitive Art and Culture, Peace Dale
• New England Woodsplint Baskets, ongoing
• Visible Spirits: West African Masks and Sculpture, ongoing

National Museum of American Illustration, Newport
• Golden Age of American Illustration, ongoing

Naval War College Museum, Newport
• Rhode Island and the Navy, ongoing
• Paper Treasures: The Naval Historical Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Secretary of the Navy, 1974-1977, ongoing

Newport Art Museum, Newport

Newport Historical Society, Newport

Newport Restoration Foundation, Newport
Rough Point

<-->Pawtuxet Valley Preservation & Historical Society, West Warwick

Pettaquamscutt Historical Society, Kingston

Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport
• The Breakers, ongoing

Preserve Rhode Island, Providence

Providence Children's Museum, Providence
• Play Power, ongoing
• Fetch! Lab, ongoing
• Iway, ongoing

Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence
Museum of Work & Culture, Woonsocket

RISD Museum of Art, Providence

Slater Mill Historic Site, Pawtucket
• Jencks Education Center, ongoing

South County Museum, Narragansett

Varnum Memorial Armory, East Greenwich

Vermont

American Museum of Fly Fishing, Manchester
Memories on the Water: A Photographic Journey Through Fly Fishing's Past, -4/11

<--> American Precision Museum, Windsor

Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington

Bennington Museum, Bennington

<--> Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock
• Upon This Land, ongoing

Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro

ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, Burlington
• Before the Basin, ongoing
• Raise the Roof, ongoing

Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium, St. Johnsbury
• Top of the World, ongoing

Green Mountain Children's Museum, Burlington

Henry Sheldon Museum of VT History, Middlebury
• Judd-Harris House, ongoing

Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home, Manchester

Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury

Nature Museum at Grafton, Grafton

Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington

Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester
<-->
Sullivan Museum & History Center, Northfield

Vermont Historical Society, Barre
• Freedom and Unity: One Ideal, Many Stories, ongoing

Vermont Ski Museum, Stowe

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, Montpelier

Woodstock Historical Society, Woodstock