Blue Star Museums 2012

The Blue Star Museum program has launched again for 2012. The program began May 28 and will end Labor Day, Monday September 3. Participating Museums provide free admission for active duty personnel and their family. On the website you will find a map that provides a listing by state of the sites participating here. I am not sure why, but I found the map worked better in when I ran it in Firefox rather than Internet Explorer. As always, I suggest checking with the site you want to visit to get more information, prior to your day of travel.

As of this writing, the following Massachusetts venues were listed as participants:

Acton
The Discovery Museums

Amesbury
Lowell's Boat Shop

Amherst
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College

Andover
Addison Gallery of American Art

Attleboro
Attleboro Arts Museum

Beverly
Beverly Historical Society

Boston
Historic New England Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Massachusetts Historical Society
Museum of Fine Arts
National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Massachusetts
Nichols House Museum
Old South Meeting House
USS Constitution Museum
Waterworks Museum
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

Cambridge
Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Clinton
Museum of Russian Icons

Concord
Concord Museum
Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House

Dedham
The Fairbanks House

Edgartown
Martha's Vineyard Museum

Fitchburg
Top Fun Aviation Toy Museum

Harvard
Fruitlands Museum

Haverhill
Haverhill Firefighting Museum

Hingham
Hingham Historical Society

Lincoln
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum

Lowell
Whistler House Museum of Art

Lynn
Lynn Museum and Historical Society

Mashpee
The Cape Cod Children's Museum

N. Easton
Ames Mansion - Friends of Borderland

Nahant
Nahant Historical Society

Nantucket
African Meeting House; Museum of African American History
Egan Maritime Institute
Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association
Nantucket Historical Association

New Bedford
New Bedford Whaling Museum
Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum

Newton
Historic Newton

North Andover
North Andover Historical Society

North Easton
Children's Museum in Easton

North Grafton
The Willard House & Clock Museum

Pittsfield
Berkshire Museum

Rehoboth
Carpenter Museum

Roxbury
The Shirley-Eustis House Museum

Salem
Peabody Essex Museum
Salem Museum

Sandwich
Heritage Museums & Gardens

Springfield
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Springfield Museums

Stockbridge
Norman Rockwell Museum

Taunton
Old Colony Historical Society

Waltham
Gore Place

Watertown
Historical Society of Watertown

Wenham
Wenham Museum

Williamstown
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Worcester
EcoTarium
Worcester Art Museum
Worcester Historical Museum

Yarmouth Port
Edward Gorey House