Blue Star Museums

Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 1,800 museums across America to offer free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day, through Labor Day.

A national partnership among the National Endowment for the Arts, and museums across the country. Leadership support has been provided by MetLife Foundation through Blue Star Families. The program begins for all active duty and their families on Memorial Day!

"Blue Star Museums is a way for the arts community to say 'thank you' to our military families, and forge stronger connections as well," said NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman. "We are also grateful to the record-breaking number of museums that opened their doors to military families this summer." 

Blue Star Museums represent not just fine arts museums, but also science museums, history museums, nature centers, and children's museums.

 Acton

• The Discovery Museums

  Amesbury

• Lowell's Boat Shop
• Rocky Hill Meeting House

  Attleboro

• Attleboro Arts Museum

  Beverly

• Beverly Historical Society

  Boston

• The Gibson House Museum

  Boston

• Historic New England
• The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
• John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Massachusetts
• Nichols House Museum
• Old South Meeting House
• Otis House
• USS Constitution Museum

  Brookline

• John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site

  Cambridge

• Cooper-Frost-Austin House
• Harvard Museum of Natural History
• MIT List Visual Arts Center
• Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

  Centerville

• Centerville Historical Museum

  Clinton

• Museum of Russian Icons

  Concord

• Concord Museum
• Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House

  Dedham

• The Fairbanks House

  Dorchester

• Pierce House

  Edgartown

• Martha's Vineyard Museum

  Essex

• Cogswell’s Grant

  Fitchburg

• Top Fun Aviation Toy Museum

  Gloucester

• Beauport, Sleeper–McCann House

  Harvard

• Fruitlands Museum

  Haverhill

• Haverhill Firefighting Museum
• Whittier Birthplace

  Hull

• Hull Lifesaving Museum

  Lexington

• Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

  Lincoln

• Codman Estate
• deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
• Gropius House

  Medford

• Royall House & Slave Quarters

  Nantucket

• Egan Maritime Institute
• Nantucket Historical Association
• Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association

  New Bedford

• The Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum

  Newbury

• Coffin House
• Dole-Little House
• Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm
• Swett-Ilsley House

  Newton

• Jackson Homestead and Museum/Hsitoric Newton

  North Andover

• North Andover Historical Society

  North Easton

• Ames Mansion - Friends of Borderland
• Children's Museum in Easton

  North Grafton

• The Willard House & Clock Museum

  Northampton

• Smith College Museum of Art

  Pittsfield

• Berkshire Museum

  Quincy

• Quincy House

  Rehoboth

• Carpenter Museum

  Roxbury

• The Shirley-Eustis House Museum

  Salem

• Gedney House
• Peabody Essex Museum
• Phillips House
• Salem Museum

  Sandwich

• Heritage Museums & Gardens

  Saugus

• Boardman House

  Scituate

• Maritime & Irish Mossing Museum

  Shelburne Falls

• Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, Inc.

  Springfield

• Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
• Springfield Museums

  Stockbridge

• Merwin House
• Norman Rockwell Museum

  Sturbridge

• Old Sturbridge Village

  Taunton

• Old Colony Historical Society

  Waltham

• Gore Place
• Lyman Estate
• The Waltham Museum Inc.

  Watertown

• Browne House
• Historical Society of Watertown

  Wenham

• Wenham Museum is a Blue Star Museum

  Williamstown

• Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

  Worcester

• EcoTarium
• Worcester Art Museum

  Yarmouth Port

• Edward Gorey House
• Winslow Crocker House