MuseumHampshire
Beneski Museum of Natural History
Amherst College's natural history museum. Three floors of fossils, mounted skeletons, minerals, and the world's largest collection of dinosaur tracks, free and open to the public.
Amherst · Free
Section
Things to See
Historic sites, museums, and scenic viewpoints across the Pioneer Valley.
Places
28
Towns
17
Historic SiteFranklin
Bissell Covered Bridge
A 92-foot Long-truss covered bridge in Charlemont, a 1951 near-replica of an 1840 original, carrying North Heath Road over Mill Brook and one of the few New England covered bridges still in full two-lane vehicular use.
Charlemont · Free; viewable from public roads at all times
Historic SiteFranklin
Bridge of Flowers
A 1908 former trolley bridge over the Deerfield River in Shelburne Falls village, replanted as a public flower garden in 1929 and tended by volunteer gardeners ever since.
Buckland · Free when open; temporary closures during 2026 soil and replanting work
Historic SiteFranklin
Burkeville Covered Bridge
An 1870 covered bridge over the South River in the Burkeville village of Conway. A modified Howe truss with iron tensioning verticals, reopened to one-lane traffic in 2013 after a long rehabilitation.
Conway · Free; viewable from public roads at all times
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Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum
The only US presidential library in Massachusetts. A single-room museum of Coolidge papers, photographs, gifts of state, and personal effects, tucked inside Northampton's 1894 Forbes Library.
Northampton · Free
Historic SiteHampden
Captain Charles Leonard House
An 1805 Federal mansion at 663 Main Street in Agawam Center, attributed to architect Asher Benjamin. Built as the town's fourth tavern and first overnight stop on the Hartford-to-Boston stage road, now a privately operated event venue.
Agawam · By event/appointment only; not a regular public museum
Historic SiteHampshire
Emily Dickinson Museum
The Homestead and Evergreens in Amherst, preserved as the home of poet Emily Dickinson and her family.
Amherst · $20 adults · $15 college students & teachers · free 17 and under
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Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
The first museum in the United States dedicated to the art of children's picture books, founded by Eric and Bobbie Carle in Amherst.
Amherst · $15 adults · $10 youth, students, teachers, and seniors · free for members
Historic SiteFranklin
Field Memorial Library
A 1901 Beaux-Arts limestone library with a copper-domed rotunda in Conway, designed by Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge of Boston as a gift from Marshall Field, the Chicago department-store magnate, to his hometown.
Conway · Free during library hours
Historic SiteFranklin
French King Bridge
A dramatic three-span steel cantilever-arch bridge that carries Route 2 across the Connecticut River 135 feet above the water at the Gill–Erving town line, opened in 1932 and one of the most-photographed bridges in New England.
Gill · Free; viewable from Route 2 and the French King Rock pull-off at all times
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Hadley Farm Museum
A small agricultural museum in a 1782 barn beside Hadley's town hall, packed with farm tools, wagons, sleighs, and household items from the late 1700s through the early 20th century.
Hadley · $5 adults · $3 seniors & students · $1 under 12
Historic SiteFranklin
Hail to the Sunrise
A 1932 bronze statue of a Native warrior with arms uplifted, sculpted by Joseph Pollia and dedicated by the Improved Order of Red Men along the Mohawk Trail in Charlemont. The figure stands in a small reflecting pool ringed with about a hundred inscribed stones.
Charlemont · Free; outdoor monument open at all times
Historic SiteFranklin
Historic Deerfield
A living history museum of colonial New England with a mile-long street of 18th-century houses in Old Deerfield, most open to the public with period interiors.
Deerfield · $20 general admission · $5 ages 13–17 · free ages 12 and under
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International Volleyball Hall of Fame
Volleyball was invented at the Holyoke YMCA in 1895, and a one-room hall of fame in a converted mill warehouse downtown tells the story, with a regulation court inside, induction galleries, and exhibits on the sport's spread to 28 countries.
Holyoke · Paid; confirm current rates and hours before visiting
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Mead Art Museum
Amherst College's teaching art museum, with 19,000 objects spanning antiquity to the present, free admission, and a permanently installed 17th-century English oak-paneled room.
Amherst · Free
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Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
One of the oldest college teaching art museums in the country, currently closed for renovation until fall 2026, when it plans to reopen for its 150th anniversary.
South Hadley · Free; museum closed for renovation until fall 2026
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Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
The world's basketball museum, in the city where James Naismith invented the game. A domed landmark on Springfield's Connecticut River waterfront.
Springfield · $34 adults · $25 seniors (65+) & students · $20 age 5–12 · free under 4
Historic SiteHampshire
Old Pelham Town Hall
The 1743 meetinghouse on Pelham Hill that the town claims as the oldest continuously-used town hall in the United States. Still the site of Annual Town Meeting every spring.
Pelham · Free; exterior viewable any time, interior access by special event or town meeting
Scenic ViewpointFranklin
Poet's Seat Tower
A 1912 sandstone observation tower on a basalt ridge above downtown Greenfield, named for the local poets who wrote there, with long views across Franklin County.
Greenfield · Free
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Quabbin Visitor Center
The interpretive museum for the Quabbin Reservoir, just inside Quabbin Park off Route 9 in Belchertown, with exhibits on the four lost towns, the 1930s reservoir construction, and the watershed that supplies metropolitan Boston's drinking water.
Belchertown · Free
MuseumHampshire
Smith College Museum of Art
Smith's teaching museum in Northampton. A broad collection spanning antiquity to the present, free and open to the public.
Northampton · Free
Historic SiteHampden
Springfield Armory National Historic Site
The first U.S. national armory, active 1794 to 1968, now a National Park Service museum with the world's largest collection of historic American military small arms.
Springfield · Free
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Springfield Museums
Five museums on one downtown campus (fine arts, science, regional history, and the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden) sharing a single admission.
Springfield · $25 adults · $17.50 seniors · $16.50 college students · $13 age 3–17 · free under 3 · free for Springfield residents
Historic SiteHampden
Storrs House Museum
The 1786 parsonage of Rev. Richard Salter Storrs on Longmeadow Street, now the museum of the Longmeadow Historical Society. Period rooms and family papers in a Federal-era center-chimney colonial set back on the Town Green.
Longmeadow · Open first Wednesday & third Saturday 1–4 PM · also by appointment
Scenic ViewpointHampshire
Summit House at Mount Holyoke
A restored 19th-century mountain hotel atop Mount Holyoke in Skinner State Park, with long views south down the Connecticut River oxbow.
Hadley · Free · summit parking $5 MA resident, $20 nonresident in season
Historic SiteHampshire
William Cullen Bryant Homestead
The 1783 Cummington farmhouse where the poet William Cullen Bryant grew up and later kept as a summer retreat. Preserved as a National Historic Landmark by The Trustees of Reservations, with house tours on select summer dates and free year-round trails on the grounds.
Cummington · Grounds free year-round · house tours $10 non-members, $5 Trustees members on select summer dates
Historic SiteHampden
Wistariahurst Museum
The preserved Victorian home of silk manufacturer William Skinner, with stained glass, period rooms, and a 1913 music-room conservatory on a quiet Holyoke street.
Holyoke · Grounds free · guided tours $15 adults, $12 seniors, free under 18
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Yiddish Book Center
A research and visitor center on the edge of Hampshire College devoted to Yiddish literature, music, and oral history, housed in a 1997 building that echoes the rooflines of an East European shtetl.
Amherst · $12 suggested adult donation · free for members, students, and children