Middleboro Historical Museum — Attraction in Middleborough

This is not your average small town history museum, as the complex combines an indoor exhibit about a celebrity couple plus mechanical musical instruments with a small collection of restored buildings and related artifacts.

The tour of Middleborough Historical Museum was a perfect balance of tour guide led, self-guided, and docent aided with plenty of opportunity to ask questions. Signage varied in design quality but was generally plentiful. Lighting throughout the space was decent for the day of my visit but would have been dim on a cloudy day. Several but not all the buildings are accessible for those using a wheelchair, as is typically for historic house museums. All volunteers on the campus were knowledgeable and appeared happy to be there.

My only issue with this organization was their struggle to communicated. I generally email small museums several weeks in advance of my pending visit to make sure they will be open at that time. I ended up having to reschedule my visit to this museum, as it closed abruptly on the first time I had coordinated my visit, and I learned of this event not through the email chain where I had been promised an open day but through a Facebook post. Overall, this is a hidden gem, and I encourage people of all ages and interests to visit; just make sure the museum is actually open...

I have been meaning to come here for years to see the Tom Thumb/Lavinia Warren museum, and was surprised with the complex. General store, fire house (with a Maxim fire engine!), blacksmith shop, even an old outhouse made for an interesting and fun 3-hour experience. Docents are very informative. This visit is well worth the drive and time. If you have ever considered coming to this museum, you MUST go. Don't wait. You will...

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