Arts & Entertainment

Free Admission to Cabot House, Other Museums on Saturday

Museum Day Live! provides free admission to the Beverly Historic Society's Cabot House and many other museums on Saturday, Sept. 28.

There will be free admission Saturday at Beverly Historical Society’s Cabot House, one of nearly a dozen museums on the North Shore participating in Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day Live!

The hours for the Cabot House, at 117 Cabot St., on Saturday are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The main exhibit at the Cabot House is “The Path of the Planters: The Legacy of Beverly's Seventeenth Century Families,” which shows the impact of the first settlers on more than 300 years of Beverly history through objects and documents, according to the Beverly Historical Society.

Admission is typically $5 for adults, $4 for students and seniors and children under 16 are always free.

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The Museum Day Live! runs annually each September providing free admission to hundreds of museums across the country, just as admission is free to the Smithsonian Museums in Washington, D.C. each day of the year. This is the ninth annual event. Last year, more than 400,000 people nationwide got free admission to a museum.

In order to participate, museum guests need to log on to the Smithsonian Magazine website and enter their name, address and e-mail address and indicate which museum they plan to visit.

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Some museums, including the Cabot House, will allow you to show your ticket on your smartphone without printing it out.

Other participating museums on the North Shore include the Salem Witch Museum, The House of Seven Gables, Phillips House and Gedney House, all in Salem; Cogwell’s Grant in Essex; The Great House at Castle Hill in Ipswich, Lynn Museum, Custom House Maritime Museum in Newburyport and Cape Ann Museum and Beauport Sleeper-McCann House, both in Gloucester.


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