Massachusetts Museums

Federal Funding in 2019 Total # Recipients Total $ to Our State (inclusive) IMLS 14 $2,178,353 NEA 117 $5,197,400 NEH 49 $5,287,652 Museums and related institutions who received grants from these three sources this year are indicated with a * in the list below. Other federal agencies also provide valuable support to museum work, including but not limited to: the National Park Service, NSF, NOAA, and Department of Education.

Major impacts from just one signature IMLS Program: Museums for All

This access program, in collaboration with the Association of Children’s Museums, encourages families of all backgrounds to visit museums regularly and build lifelong museum habits. Through Museums for All, those receiving SNAP benefits can gain free or reduced admission by presenting their EBT card.

Massachusetts has 34 participating sites, and welcomed 48,120 visitors in 2019.

Who are we?

NEMA represents museums, history organizations, science centers, zoos and aquaria, and many others:

NEMA members in our state Total: 1513 Institutions 199 Individuals 1268 Related Businesses 44 Academic Programs 2

These are some of the museum organizations that serve your constituents:

District 1

 Amelia Park Children's Museum  Mount Holyoke College Art  Springfield Armory National  Atheneum Society of Museum Historic Site Wilbraham/Old Meeting House  Museum of Our Industrial Heritage  Springfield Museums  Becket Land Trust Historic Quarry  Noble & Cooley Center for Historic  Storrowton Village Museum  Berkshire Historical Society Preservation  Susan B. Anthony Birthplace  Berkshire Museum  The Norman Rockwell Museum ** Museum  Bidwell House Museum  North Adams Museum of History  The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home  Children's Museum at Holyoke and Science  The Oscilloscope Museum  Clark Art Institute  Old Sturbridge Village *  Ventfort Hall Association  Crane Museum of Papermaking  The Polish Center of Discovery and  Westfield Museum Inc.  Historical Society of Greenfield Learning at Elms College  Williams College Museum of Art  Keep Homestead Museum  Sheffield Historical Society  Williamstown Historical Museum  Longmeadow Historical Society  Shelburne Historical Society  Wistariahurst Museum  MassMOCA *  Southwick Historical Society

District 2

 American Antiquarian Society *  Fitchburg Art Museum  Samuel Slater Museum  Amherst History Museum  Hatfield Historical Society  Shelburne Historical Society  Barre Historical Society, Inc.  Hingham Historical Society  Shrewsbury Historical Society  Belchertown Historical Association  Historic Deerfield, Inc.  Smith College Museum of Art *  Beneski Museum of Natural History,  Historic Northampton  Sterling Historical Society Amherst College  Historical Society of Greenfield  Swift River Valley Historical Society  Beyond Genocide Prevention Center  Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery  University Museum of Contemporary Art *  Blackstone Historical Commission  Massachusetts State Police Museum &  West Boylston Historical Society  Boylston Historical Society and Learning Center  Westborough Historical Society Museum, Inc.  Mead Art Museum  Willard House & Clock Museum  Clara Barton Birthplace Museum  Museum of Our Industrial Heritage  Winchendon Historical Society  Col. Timothy Bigelow Chapter, D.A.R.  Northboro Historical Society  Worcester County Horticultural  Douglas Historical Society  Oakham Historical Association Society/Tower Hill  EcoTarium  Pelham Historical Society  Worcester Historical Museum  Emily Dickinson Museum **  Petersham Historical Society  Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art  Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association *

District 3

 Acton Historical Society  Harvard Historical Society  Public Health Museum in  Addison Gallery of American Art  Hudson Historical Society Massachusetts  Andover Center for History and  Iron Work Farm in Acton, Inc.  Robbins House Interpretive Center Culture  Lawrence History Center: Immigrant  Robert S. Peabody Institute of  Bolton Historical Society City Archives Archaeology  Buttonwoods Museum/Haverhill  Littleton Historical Society  Rocks Village Memorial Association Historical Society  Longfellow's Wayside Inn  Shirley Historical Society  Concord Museum  Lowell National Historical Park  Stow Historical Society  deCordova Sculpture Park and  Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust -  Sudbury Historical Society, Inc. Museum | The Trustees of Spalding House  Townsend Historical Society Reservations  Lunenberg Historical Society  Westford Museum & Historical Society  Discovery Museum  Museum of Russian Icons  Westminster Historical Society  Fitchburg Art Museum *  New England Quilt Museum  Whistler House Museum of Art  Fort Devens Museum  Orchard House/Home of the Alcotts  Winchendon Historical Society  Groton Historical Society

District 4

 26.2 Foundation  Cushing-Martin Gallery, Stonehill  Institute for Nonprofit Management  Armenian Museum of America College & Leadership  Attleboro Arts Museum  Davis Museum at Wellesley College  Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum  Attleboro Masonic Museum  Dover Historical Society, MA  Longyear Museum  Boston Univ, Art Gallery  Fall River Historical Society  Loring Greenough House, Jamaica  Brighton-Allston Heritage Museum  Franklin Historical Commission Plain Tuesday Club  Bristol County Nature Center  Freetown Historical Society, Inc.  Mary Baker Eddy Library  Brookline Historical Society  Historic Newton  Massachusetts Historical Society  Carpenter Museum  Historical Society of Watertown  MassArt Museum  Children's Museum in Easton  Hopkinton Historical Society (MA)  Medway Historical Society  Museum at the Mill  Norwood Historical Society, Inc.  The Beard and Weil Galleries and  Museum Of Bad Art  Old Colony History Museum Permanent Collection, Wheaton  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Plainville Historical Commission College  Metropolitan Waterworks Museum  Robbins Museum of Archaeology  The Needham History Center &  National Black Doll Museum of  Rubin-Frankel Gallery at Boston Museum History and Culture University Hillel  Unbound Visual Arts  New Art Center  Sharon Historical Society  Westport Historical Society, MA  Norton Historical Society, Inc.  Somerset Historical Society

District 5

 Arlington Historical Society  Gore Place  Peabody Museum of Archaeology  Armenian Museum of America  Griffin Museum of Photography and Ethnology  Ashland Historical Society  Harvard Art Museums  Testing Riggs-abs  Bedford Historical Society  Harvard Museums of Science and  Robert Treat Paine Estate  Bullard Memorial Farm Culture *  Rumford Historical Association  Cambridge Historical Society  Historical Society of Watertown  Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and  Charles River Museum of Industry  Holliston Historical Society Library, Inc. and Innovation  Job Lane House  Southborough Historical Society  Combat Sports Hall of Fame  Lexington Historical Society  Sudbury Historical Society, Inc.  Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum  Longfellow's Wayside Inn  The Girl Scout Museum at Cedar Hill  Deane Winthrop House  Malden Historical Society  The Natick History Museum  deCordova Sculpture Park and  Massachusetts Air & Space  The Somerville Museum Museum | The Trustees of Museum, Inc.  The Waltham Museum Reservations *  The Medford Historical Commission  Tufts University Art Gallery  East Boston Museum & Historical  Medford Historical Society  Waltham Historical Society Society  MIT Museum  Westborough Historical Society

 Golden Ball Tavern Museum  Old Schwamb Mill  Winchester Historical Society District 6

 Addison Gallery of American Art  Magnolia Historical Society  Public Health Museum in  Andover Center for History and  Manchester Historical Museum Massachusetts Culture  Marblehead Historical Commission  Reading Antiquarian Society  Bakers Island Light Station  Marblehead Museum & Historical  Robert S. Peabody Institute of  The Bartlett Museum Society Archaeology  Bedford Historical Society  Maritime Gloucester  Rockport Art Association & Museum   Billerica Historical Society  Massachusetts Air & Space Museum. Rumford Historical Association  Sargent Murray Gilman Hough  Cape Ann Museum  Middlesex Canal Museum House Association *  Danvers Historical Society  Middleton Historical Society   Essex National Heritage Commission  Montserrat College of Art Gallery School of Visual & Performing Arts,  Essex Shipbuilding Museum  Museum of Printing Endicott College   George Peabody House Museum  Nahant Historical Society Swampscott Historical Society, Inc.   Historic Beverly  Newburyport Maritime Society The Salem Museum   Historical Society of Old Newbury  North Andover Historical Society The Salem Witch Museum   House of the Seven Gables  North Reading Historical & The Wilmington Town Museum   Ipswich Museum Antiquarian Society Wenham Museum   Job Lane House  Peabody Essex Museum * Whittier Home Association   Lynn Museum & Historical Society  Peabody Historical Society & Museum Witch House/City of Salem District 7

 "e" inc.  Institute for Nonprofit  New England Aquarium  Boston Univ, Art Gallery Management & Leadership  New England Historic Genealogical  Brighton-Allston Heritage Museum  Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum * Society  Brookline Historical Society  John F. Kennedy Presidential  Northeast Museum Services Center  Cambridge Historical Society Library & Museum  Peabody Museum of Archaeology  Combat Sports Hall of Fame  Norman B. Leventhal Map Center and Ethnology  Commonwealth Museum at the Boston Public Library * *  Rubin-Frankel Gallery at Boston  Deane Winthrop House  Longyear Museum University Hillel  Design Museum Boston *  Loring Greenough House, Jamaica  Shirley-Eustis House Association  Dorchester Historical Society Plain Tuesday Club  South End Historical Society  East Boston Museum & Historical  Malden Historical Society  The Somerville Museum Society  Mary Baker Eddy Library  The Trustees of Reservations  Edward M. Kennedy Institute for  Massachusetts Historical Society *  Trinity Church in the City of Boston the Senate *  MassArt Museum  The Tryworks Collection, Inc.  Forbes House Museum  The Medford Historical  Tufts University Art Gallery *  The Gibson House Museum Commission  Unbound Visual Arts  Gov. Bellingham-Cary House  Medford Historical Society  USS Constitution Museum *  Harvard Art Museums  Milton Historical Society  Veteran Association of the First  Harvard Museums of Science and  MIT Museum * Corps of Cadets Culture  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston *  Zoo New England *  Metropolitan Waterworks Museum District 8

 Abigail Adams Historical Society  Historic Winslow House  Metropolitan Waterworks  Adams Gallery, Suffolk University Association Museum  Adams National Historical Park  Hull Lifesaving Museum Inc.  New England Aquarium  Ancient & Honorable Artillery  Institute of Contemporary Art **  Nichols House Museum Company of Massachusetts  John F. Kennedy Presidential  Norwood Historical Society, Inc. Museum Library & Museum  NSCDA-MA  Boston Children's Museum *  Longyear Museum  Old North Church & Historic Site  Boston Museum  Loring Greenough House, Jamaica  Old South Meeting House  Boston Wax Museum Plain Tuesday Club  Paul Revere Memorial Association  Canton Historical Society  Maritime & Irish Mossing Museum  Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of  Cohasset Historical Society  Marshfield Historical Society Medical History and Innovation  Commonwealth Museum  Massasoit Open Museum  Quincy Historical Society  Dorchester Historical Society  Milton Art Museum  Revolutionary Spaces  Dyer Memorial Library  Milton Historical Society  South End Historical Society  Educator Resource Center at the  Museum Institute for Teaching  The Fairbanks House Museum of Science Science (MITS, Inc)  The Trustees of Reservations  Edward M. Kennedy Institute for  Museum of African American History *  The Tryworks Collection, Inc. the Senate  Museum of American Bird Art at  Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for  Forbes House Museum Mass Audubon Jewish Culture  Fuller Craft Museum  Museum of Science *  West End Museum  Historic New England  WWII Radio Station Museum

District 9

 Artists Association of Nantucket  Hanover Historical Society  New Bedford Fishing Heritage  Benjamin Nye Homestead &  Harwich Historical Society/Brooks Center ** Museum Academy Museum  New Bedford Whaling Museum *  Bourne Historical Society, Inc.  Heritage Museums & Gardens  Osterville Historical Museum  Brewster Historical Society  Historic Winslow House  Pilgrim Hall Museum  Cahoon Museum of American Art Association  Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown  Cape Cod Children's Museum  The Historical Society of Old Museum  Cape Cod Maritime Museum Yarmouth  Plimoth Plantation *  Cape Cod Museum of Art  John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum  Provincetown Art Assoc. &  Cape Cod Museum of Natural  Jones River Village Historical Museum History Society  Robbins Museum of Archaeology  Chatham Marconi Maritime Center  Maria Mitchell Association  Rotch-Jones-Duff House  Coast Guard Heritage Museum  Marion Art Center  Sippican Historical Society  Cranberry Education Foundation  Marshfield Historical Society  The Atwood House & Museum,  Cuttyhunk Historical Society  Martha's Vineyard Museum Chatham Historical Society  Dennis Historical Society  Mattapoisett Historical Society  The Centers for Culture and History  Eastham Historical Society - 1869  Nantucket Historical Association * in Orleans Schoolhouse *  Nantucket Lightship Basket  Truro Historical Society  Edward Gorey House Museum  Wareham Historical Society  The Egan Maritime Institute  New Bedford Art  Westport Historical Society, MA  Fall River Historical Society Museum/ArtWorks!  Wing Fort House  Halifax Historical Commission  Woods Hole Historical Museum