Onset Museums - Children's, Art & History Museums in Onset MA

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APorter Thermometer Museum

  • Onset
    MA
  • +1 508 295 5504
  • Overview The world's largest thermometer collection on display. more on TripAdvisor

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BRedwood Library and Athenaeum

  • 50 Bellevue Avenue
    Newport, RI 02840-3229
  • +1 401 847 0292
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  • Highlights: wheelchair accessible more
  • Location: Newport, Rhode Island (38.0 miles from Onset)
  • Overview Dating back to 1750, this is the oldest subscription library in the United States. more on TripAdvisor
  • Overview The Redwood Library and Athenaeum, is a private, subscription library in Newport, Rhode Island. Founded in 1747, it is the oldest community library still occupying its original building in the United States. Its original building was constructed in 1750 by the architect Peter Harrison. Designed a... more on En.wikipedia.org

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Redwood Library and Athenaeum
50 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, RI 02840-3229

CCaptain John Kendrick Maritime Museum

  • 124 Main Street
    Wareham, MA, USA
  • Overview It has been claimed that Captain Kendrick determined that Vancouver was an island by sailing completely around it. - Captain John Kendrick died in Hawaii after being struck by a ball fired from a British vessel that was saluting him. How ironic ... more on MuseumStuff.com

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Captain John Kendrick Maritime Museum
124 Main Street
Wareham, MA, USA

DBourne Historical Center and Archives

  • 30 Keene St
    Bourne, MA 02532
  • +1 508 759 8167

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Bourne Historical Center and Archives
30 Keene St
Bourne, MA 02532

EAptucxet Trading Post Museum

  • 24 Aptucxet Road
    Bourne, MA 02532-5434
  • +1 508 759 9487
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  • Overview Long before the Canal was a twinkle in Myles Standish's (and later, George Washington's) eye, Native Americans had been portaging goods between two rivers, the Manomet and Scusset, that once almost met at this site; its name in Algonquian means "little trap in the river." The Pilgrims were quick ... more on Frommers
  • Overview A monument to the birth of commerce in the New World, the Aptucxet Trading Post Museum was erected on the foundation of the original post archaeologically excavated in the 1920s. Here, in 1627, Plimoth Plantation leaders established a way station between the Native American encampment at Great He... more on Fodor's

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Aptucxet Trading Post Museum
24 Aptucxet Road
Bourne, MA 02532-5434

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