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Museum Directory Stony Brook Grist Mill & Museum Website: https://www.brewster-ma.gov/stony-brook-grist-mill-museum Address: 830 Stony Brook Road, Brewster, Massachusetts 02631 Phone: 508-896-3701 Email: brewster@brewster-ma.gov The Stony Brook Grist Mill and Museum is a favorite stopping place for locals and visitors. The beautiful spot, featuring a sparkling brook and picturesque mill, is both scenic and historical. The Grist Mill is the only remaining structure from Brewster’s Factory Village, a bustling 19th Century industrial area. The restored mill is open every Saturday in the summer. Visitors can see the water wheel in motion and purchase fresh ground corn meal. The upstairs museum features artifacts of 19th Century Cape Cod life, weaving demonstrations and much more. Visitors strolling the footpaths might happen upon basking turtles, spot a heron flying overhead, see dragonflies hovering over the mill pond, or see a variety of fish in the brook. The mill site is a Brewster treasure. In the spring, the annual alewife migration up the fish ladders of Stony Brook is awe-inspiring, and was the subject of The Run, a nature classic written by John Hay. Footpaths along the edges of the brook are a wonderful vantage point to view the fish, which journey from Cape Cod Bay to the freshwater ponds of West Brewster in order to spawn. The herring run starts in mid-March (depending on air and water temperatures) and continues through early May. Mill and Museum Hours: The Grist Mill and Museum are open every Saturday in July and August from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Admission is free. Fresh cornmeal is available for purchase. Hours: Mon. Closed Tue. Closed Wed. Closed Thu. Closed Fri. Closed Sat. Closed Sun. Closed 830 Stony Brook Road, Brewster, MA, USA

Museum Directory Edward Gorey House Website: https://edwardgoreyhouse.org/ Address: 8 Strawberry Ln, Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts 02675 Phone: (508) 362-3909 Email: edwardgoreyhouse@gmail.com The Edward Gorey House celebrates and preserves the life and works of Edward Gorey, an American author, illustrator, playwright, set and costume designer. In honor of his legacy, The House, owned and lived in by Gorey himself, displays his diverse and extraordinary talents and reflects his distinct personality. The House also honors Gorey's passion and concern for animals, raising awareness about local and national animal welfare issues. As a dedicated commemoration to Gorey, the House strives to educate and inspire its visitors, offering a unique introduction to Edward Gorey, the artist and person. 2024 Season Info: Among his many other accolades—author, illustrator, set designer, costume designer, printmaker, playwright, and puppeteer—Edward Gorey is, at his core, a Book Artist. The House’s 2024 Exhibit Exquisite Corpse: Edward Gorey's Moveable Books presents Gorey immersed in, and gleefully subverting, the physical realm of The Book. Manipulating folds, pagination, and expectation, Gorey allows endless visual and narrative possibilities to quite literally unfold. This show promises to be a treat for both lovers of books and those who enjoy disassembling them. Hours: Mon. Closed Tue. Closed Wed. 11:00 AM - 04:00 PM Thu. 11:00 AM - 04:00 PM Fri. 11:00 AM - 04:00 PM Sat. 11:00 AM - 04:00 PM Sun. 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM 8 Strawberry Lane, Yarmouth Port, MA, USA

Museum Directory Cape Cod Canal Visitors Center Website: https://www.nae.usace.army.mil/missions/recreation/cape-cod-canal/ Address: 60 Ed Moffitt Drive, Sandwich, Massachusetts 02563 Phone: 508-833-9678 Email: samantha.a.gray@usace.army.mil Currently closed for the season until May 1, 2026 Before the Cape Cod Canal, two rivers flowed though this valley. To the southwest flowing into Buzzards Bay was the Manomet River, later called the Monument River. To the northeast, flowing into Cape Cod Bay, was the Scusset River. As the bird flies, little more than a mile of land no more than 33 feet above sea level separated these rivers. Operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Cape Cod Canal Visitor Center offers excellent insight into the rich history, fascinating features, and vigilant operation of the Cape Cod Canal. Inside you will discover a museum that is fun, fascinating, family friendly and free. Interactive exhibits offer something for visitors of all ages. Come on by and… Board a retired 40-foot US Army Corps of Engineers patrol boat. Scan live radar and camera images to locate vessels in the waterway. Captain a virtual boat ride through the canal. Investigate what’s inside many of the ships that transit the canal Discover wildlife that live in or around the canal View films about canal history, wildflowers and wildlife Participate in various free interpretive programs Or… just relax and soak in the waterfront views from the rocking chairs on our front deck. Army Corps staff and volunteers staff the Center, and provide information about the canal and its recreational opportunities. A small bookstore is also offered. Hours: Mon. Closed Tue. Closed Wed. Closed Thu. Closed Fri. Closed Sat. Closed Sun. Closed 60 Ed Moffitt Drive, Sandwich, MA, USA

Museum Directory Toad Hall Sports Car Collection Website: http://www.toadhallcars.com/ Address: 288 Scudder Avenue, Hyannis, Massachusetts 02601 Phone : 508-778-4934 Email: ToadHallCars@aol.com Tickets: Adults $8, kids 16 and under free. Toad Hall started with a few sports cars housed in a shed behind the Simmons Homestead Inn in Hyannisport. Over the past dozen years, the number of cars grew and grew to a total of 30 today. Most are classics from the 50s to the 80s. Most are English. All are red. The cars are all nicely restored. Most of the cars are English with some Japanese and European ones thrown in. There are a dozen Lotuses, half a dozen MGs, Triumphs and Jaguars, and a bunch of Austin Healeys, TVRs, Datsuns, and Ferrari, Mazda, Morgan, AC, Sunbeam, Mini, and a few more. You can visit the museum behind the Simmons Homestead Inn every day. If Bill is not in the museum, check inside the inn or the adjacent gift shop. Hours: Mon. 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM Tue. 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM Wed. 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM Thu. 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM Fri. 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM Sat. 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM Sun. 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM 288 Scudder Avenue, Hyannis, MA, USA

Museum Directory Salt Pond Visitor Center Museum Website: https://www.nps.gov/caco/planyourvisit/visitorcenters.htm Address: 50 Nauset Road, Eastham, Massachusetts 02642 Phone: 508-255-3421 Email: sue_moynihan@nps.gov Hours are 9-4:30 daily, and 9-5 beginning May 1 . Stop by the outdoor stations to ask a question or for help planning your visit. Pick up the seashore Trip Planner and brochures on trails and resource topics, check out our self-serve info boards, or ask about becoming a Junior Ranger. Drop by the The America's National Parks store at Salt Pond to browse books, maps, field guides, apparel, and other seashore-related items for sale. The visitor center grounds are open, offering dramatic views of seashore landscapes and waterscapes. In addition, there are outdoor exhibits located at many seashore sites. In the visitor center lobby, a large topographic map illustrates Cape Cod's glacial history, its position in the Gulf of Maine, and natural forces that continue to shape it. The museum in the Salt Pond Visitor Center emphasizes the cultural themes represented on Cape Cod. A new section interprets Wampanoag culture and history through artifacts, photographs and art, a partial wetu (home), and oral histories; this exhibit focuses on native peoples' uses of natural materials for food and shelter. Other themes covered in the museum include whaling, lifesaving and lighthouses, maritime industries, agricultural life, and everyday life. When you visit the museum, make sure to enjoy everything that the Visitor Center has to offer. Salt Pond Visitor Center is Cape Cod National Seashore's main visitor facility, with frequent orientation movies, a well stocked bookstore, a comprehensive museum, and restroom facilities. The indoor theatre routinely offers 5 short films daily on a rotating schedule. Offering breathtaking views of Nauset Marsh and the Atlantic beyond. The Visitor Center is also convenient to the popular 1.5 mile Nauset Marsh Trail and the Buttonbush Trail, a .25 mile multi-sensory trail that featuring a guide rope and text panels printed in large lettering and Braille, and the Nauset Bicycle Trail. Hours: Mon. 09:00 AM - 4:30 PM Tue. 09:00 AM - 4:30 PM Wed. 09:00 AM - 4:30 PM Thu. 09:00 AM - 4:30 PM Fri. 09:00 AM - 4:30 PM Sat. 09:00 AM - 4:30 PM Sun. 09:00 AM - 4:30 PM 50 Nauset Road, Eastham, MA, USA

Museum Directory Atlantic White Shark Conservancy- Provincetown Website: Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Provincetown Shark Center Address: 16 MacMillan Pier, Provincetown, Massachusetts 02657 Phone: 508-348-5901 Email: info@atlanticwhiteshark.org Awareness inspires conservation: AWSC's second outreach facility, Shark Center Provincetown, is the perfect place to be inspired by great white sharks. With a focus on research, education, and public safety, visitors of all ages can explore hands-on, interactive exhibits and dive into the world of our local apex predators. The Shark Center caters to all shark-enthusiasts - making a visit the perfect activity for kids - rainy days included! Hours: Mon. Closed Tue. Closed Wed. Closed Thu. 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM Fri. 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM Sat. 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM Sun. 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM 16 MacMillan Pier, Provincetown, MA, USA

Museum Directory Atwood House and Museum Website: Atwood House & Museum Address: 347 Stage Harbor Road, Chatham, Massachusetts 02633 Phone: (508) 945-2493 Email: director.atwood@gmail.com The Atwood Museum showcases 12 galleries, 15 exhibits, a gift shop and garden. There is something to interest everyone at this museum, history, art, fashion, and culture. Some of the exhibits include the Old Atwood House, a restored house from the 1700s, the Wetu, a Native American dwelling, the Alice Stallknecht Mural Barn, the Life Saving Services Exhibit, Main Street Cape Cod, the Fishing Gallery, the Double Take Exhibit, and so much more! New exhibits are debuted every year. This is a great place to learn about New England coastal life. Due to current public health concerns, we are requiring that all visitors make advance online reservations to visit the Atwood Museum. We have also implemented procedures so that you can enjoy the exhibits knowing that precautions have been made for everyone's health and safety. Please visit our website to make your reservation and to learn more about our new safety procedures. Entrance Fees: Adults – $10 Students (8 – 17) – $5 Children (7 and younger) – Free Members – Free Hours: Mon. Closed Tue. 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM Wed. 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM Thu. 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM Fri. 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM Sat. 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM Sun. Closed 347 Stage Harbor Road, Chatham, MA, USA

Museum Directory Brooks Academy Museum-Harwich Historical Society Website: http://www.harwichhistoricalsociety.org/ Address: 80 Parallel Street, Harwich, Massachusetts 02645 Phone: (508) 432-8089 Email: info@HarwichHistoricalSociety.org The museum is housed in the former Pine Grove Seminary. It was a two-room school was presided over by Sidney Brooks, Offered to both boys and girls, it taught a typical high school curriculum including surveying and navigation. Students boarded with local families for about $1.50 a week. The Society's collection at the Brooks Museum chronicles several hundred years of Harwich History, highlighted by the Cape's largest cranberry culture exhibit. New to the museum is the Elmer Crowell Barn on its grounds. You can explore the story of the Harwich bird carver Anthony Elmer Crowell at his newly reconstructed barn which features the workshop of the now world famous carver, furnished as it was during Crowell’s day, along with audiovisual and photographic displays, tools, and bird-carving demonstrations. Hours: Mon. Closed Tue. Closed Wed. Closed Thu. Closed Fri. Closed Sat. Closed Sun. Closed 80 Parallel Street, Harwich, MA, USA

Museum Directory Aptucxet Museum Complex Website: Aptucxet Trading Post Museum Address: 6 Aptucxet Road Bourne, Massachusetts 02532 Phone: (508) 759-8167 Email: BourneHistoricalSociety@comcast.net Description: The Museums at Aptucxet is a 12-acre campus on the banks of the Cape Cod Canal in Bourne, MA consisting of buildings and gardens that collectively tell the story of local history from the 1600's through today. The main museum building is the Aptucxet Trading Post , a replica of the Pilgrim Trading Post built by Plymouth Colony in 1627 to trade with the local Wampanoag people and traveling Dutch traders. The property also includes the 19th-century Gray Gables Railroad Station , which served President Grover Cleveland during his summer holidays and the Joseph Jefferson Windmill, which was originally an art studio for the actor Joseph Jefferson and has recently served as an Art Gallery and studio for local artists. On site, visitors will also find an artisan shop, a replica of 19th-century saltworks, a Colonial Herb Garden, A Three Sisters Garden and a Wildflower Garden, picnic tables, walking trails, and unmatched views of the Canal. Events change monthly. Did you know? The Aptucxet Trading Post represents the first free enterprise in America. It was at Aptucxet that the Pilgrims built their first trading house as a way station to acquire Native American-made "wampum" (a type of shell bead) and supply it to Plymouth Colony, which traded it for animal furs - like currency - with Native Americans in the North. Aptucxet Trading Post was destroyed in 1635 during one of the worst hurricanes on record. Aptucxet Trading Post Museum Complex is open Memorial Day Weekend through Columbus Day Weekend. Open by appointment for private tours and school groups year round. Contact BourneHistoricalSociety@comcast.net or call 508-759-8167 for more information. The Bourne Historical Society, Inc., is a not-for-profit organization. The charge for admission to the Aptucxet Trading Post Museum and its grounds are: Hours: Mon. Closed Tue. Closed Wed. Closed Thu. 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM Fri. 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM Sat. 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM Sun. Closed Special rates are available for students and pre-arranged group tours 508-759-8167. We have a turnaround for buses to drop visitors off at the Trading Post, with a parking area near the Trading Post Gift Shop. 6 Aptucxet Road, Bourne, Massachusetts 02532, USA

Museum Directory Crosby Mansion Website: https://www.crosbymansion.com/ Address: 163 Crosby Lane, Brewster, Massachusetts 02631 Phone: 508- 896-1744 Email: info@crosbymansion.com The Crosby mansion in Brewster is a monument to an earlier time, a time of opulence, grandeur and painstaking craftsmanship. Standing tall on a rise of land with sweeping views of Cape Cod bay, the three-story mansion is also a monument to romance. It is the legacy of a man who went west to make his fortune and returned to the cape with a bride 20 years his junior, for whom he built the mansion called Tawasentha. Albert Crosby was born in 1823 and raised in a modest cape house in Brewster that still stands where the mansion is, as he had the mansion, in effect, wrap around his old family homestead. Albert moved to Chicago and made his fortune producing distilled alcohol. He sold this to the army during the Civil War, and sales of this non-taxed medicinal alcohol made him a wealthy man. Albert spared no expense for the three story, 35 room home overlooking the Bay. Completed in 1888, the home was named “Tawasentha”, probably after Longfellow’s poem, “Song of Hiawatha”. It was built in the grand style of Chicago’s Gold Coast Mansions and featured a 60 foot viewing tower, 15 fireplaces with imported tile, hand carved mahogany and oak walls, a parlor fashioned after one at the Palace of Versailles, an entrance duplicating one at Buckingham Palace, a two-story billiard room, marble sinks and floors in the baths, and gas lighting and heating throughout. Because of its heightened construction, the Old Colony Railroad laid a side track to the site. The mansion was designed for the lavish entertaining his young wife, Matilda, loved. Legend has it that when her soirees became too much for him, Albert would slip away to the old homestead and sit peacefully in his favorite rocking chair. The mansion’s crowning glory was a two-story 75x50 foot art gallery filled with valuable paintings and statuary, including works by Childe Hassan, El Greco, Albert Bierstadt and other famous artists. After Albert’s death in 1906 at the age of 83, Matilda opened the art gallery to the public one day a week in summer, apparently in return for the town’s not raising her taxes. The gallery was legendary, and a number of famous people were said to have visited, including the Duke of Wales, Helen Keller and Samuel Clemens. We ask for a $5.00 donation, kids under 12 are free. Hours: Mon. Closed Tue. Closed Wed. Closed Thu. Closed Fri. Closed Sat. Closed Sun. Closed 163 Crosby Lane, Brewster, MA, USA

Museum Directory Nantucket Shipwreck Lifesaving Museum - Egan Institute Website: https://eganmaritime.org/shipwreck-lifesaving-museum Address: 158 Polpis Bike Path, Nantucket, MA, 02554 Phone: 508-228-1885 The Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum, an affiliate of Egan Maritime Institute, is dedicated to honoring Nantucket's history of shipwrecks, lifesaving, and rescuers. In the 19th Century, hundreds of ships passed by Nantucket Island each day, all navigating without the benefit of modern nautical technology. As a result, unpredictable storms, dense fog, and strong currents often caught even the most experienced sailors off guard. In addition, treacherous shoals and inclement weather led to over 750 shipwrecks in the island's waters. As a result, the area was often called "a graveyard of the Atlantic." Founded in 1968 as the first museum in America devoted to honoring volunteer and professional lifesavers, The Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum preserves the memory of Islanders. They risked their lives to save mariners from the perils of the sea. Their inspiring stories come from men and women of the Massachusetts Humane Society, US Life-Saving Service, and the United States Coast Guard. Hours: Mon. Closed Tue. Closed Wed. Closed Thu. Closed Fri. Closed Sat. Closed Sun. Closed 158 Polpis Bike Path, Nantucket, MA, USA

Museum Directory Website: https://mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/museum Address: 414 Main St, Mashpee, Massachusetts 02649 Phone: 508-477-0208 Email: publicrelations@mwtribe-nsn.gov The museum building is one of the oldest remaining homesteads in Mashpee, built in 1793 by the great grandson of missionary Richard Bourne. Through the door of the Museum the history and culture of the Wampanoag from the Stone Age to the present is carefully detailed through a range of exhibits. First established under the guidance of the Mashpee Historical Commission, the Museum is the only one in existence devoted exclusively to Wampanoag history. The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Museum was a dream, then a passion of Amelia Peters Bingham, in which she saw the opportunity to highlight the rich indigenous culture and historic significance of the Town of Mashpee, on Cape Cod, known as the Land of the Wampanoag. The idea also coincided with the 100th anniversary of the 1870 incorporation of the Town of Mashpee. The Native Community embraced the concept of self-determination to show the world who we are and how we survived the conquest of America. The Bourne-Avant house situated on Snake Pond Road, also known as Main Street or Route 130, was chosen as an ideal historic structure to start this small museum. This building is one of the oldest remaining homesteads located near the historic center of town, adjacent to the Mashpee River and the Herring Run across from the Mill Pond and within close proximity to the Mashpee Wakeby Lake. It was originally built approximately 1793 by Sherjashub Bourne, great grandson of the missionary Richard Bourne. The Museum is the geographic core of the Mashpee Wampanoag people. Eighty-five percent of Wampanoag people live within 20 miles of the Museum. Hours: Mon. Closed Tue. Closed Wed. Closed Thu. Closed Fri. Closed Sat. Closed Sun. Closed 414 Main Street, Mashpee, MA, USA