4月4日全美有1200家博物館可免費入場

(Boston Orange)史密松尼(Smithsonian)雜誌的第16屆博物館日，將容許遊客在4月4日這天，免費近全美1200家博物館及文化機構，其中有80家在新英格蘭。

今年的主題是”地球樂觀(Earth Optimism)，紀念地球日50週年，也是史密森尼雜誌的50週年。史密森尼媒體財政長Amy Wikins表示，博物館日是全國慶祝好奇心的活動。

麻州目前有34家博物館加入慶祝行列，其中有3家在波士頓。有意免費參觀者，必須下載門票，每張票可讓持票者和一名賓客入場。要求打印出門票的博物館，會在門票上註明，其他的博物館則容許遊客用智慧型手機或平板展示門票。每一個電子郵件地址只能索取一張票。索票網址為: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/museum-day-2020/。

新英格蘭地區參加這活動的博物館如下:

Massachusetts

Armenian Museum of America in Watertown
Beneski Museum of Natural History at Amherst College in Amherst
Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit
Cape Cod Maritime Museum in Hyannis
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation in Waltham
Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Wellesley
Discovery Museum in Acton
Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds in Newton
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston
Falmouth Museums on the Green in Falmouth
Fitchburg Art Museum in Fitchburg
Gibson House Museum in Boston
Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge
Jackson Homestead and Museum in Newton
John Cabot House in Beverly
John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum Foundation in Hyannis
Marconi-RCA Wireless Museum in North Chatham
Museum of Printing in Haverhill
Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton
Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum in Nantucket
Nichols House Museum in Boston
Old Colony History Museum in Taunton
Peabody Essex Museum in Salem
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Cambridge
Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum in New Bedford
Sandwich Glass Museum in Sandwich
Shirley-Eustis House in Roxbury
Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History in Weston
Springfield Museums in Springfield
Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum in Adams
The Gardner Museum in Gardner
USS Constitution Museum in Charlestown
Worcester Historical Museum in Worcester
YV Art Museum in Acton
Yiddish Book Center in Amherst

New Hampshire

American Independence Museum’s Folsom Tavern in Exeter
Lawrence Lee Scout Museum in Manchester
McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord
Millyard Museum in Manchester
New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord
New Hampshire Telephone Museum in Warner
Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm in Tamworth
Seacoast Science Center in Rye
University of New Hampshire Museum of Art in Durham

Rhode Island

Babcock-Smith House Museum in Westerly
Gen. Nathanael Greene Homestead in Coventry
Jamestown Windmill in Jamestown
John Brown House Museum – Rhode Island Historical Society in Providence
Lippitt House Museum in Providence
Museum of Natural History and Planetarium in Providence
Norman Bird Sanctuary in Middletown
Old Slater Mill National Historic Landmark in Pawtucket
Paine House Museum in Coventry
RISD Museum in Providence
Roger Williams National Memorial in Providence
Tomaquag Museum in Exeter
Westerly Armory in Westerly

Maine

Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor
Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick
Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk
L.C. Bates Museum in Hinckley
Maine Historical Society in Portland
Owls Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head
Portland Museum of Art in Portland
Rufus Porter Museum in Bridgton
The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum in Brunswick

Vermont

American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester
American Precision Museum in Windsor
Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium in St. Johnsbury
Vermont History Museum in Montpelier

Connecticut

American Clock & Watch Museum in Bristol
Art Museum, University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford
Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford
Custom House Maritime Museum in New London
Danbury Museum in Danbury
Danbury Railway Museum in Danbury
Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center in Mystic
Fairfield University Art Museum in Fairfield
Florcen Griswold Museum in Old Lyme
Henry Whitfield State Museum in Guilford
Institute for American Indian Studies in Washington
KidsPlay Children’s Museum in Torrington
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum in Norwalk
New England Civil War Museum in Vernon
Slater Memorial Museum in Norwich
The Aldridge Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield
The New England Carousel Museum in Bristol
Yale Center for British Art in New Haven