Best places: History museums in Smithfield, United States

👍👍 Great tour about Pirate history and Pirate lives. If anyone is looking for an authentic pirate museum, This is the place! Informative, accommodating and knowledgeable staff. A fun experience for people of all ages!

👍👍 A must visit! Oh my it is an incredible museum! It starts with a movie then a cool bunker scene with another film and effects and then one more room with a film about WWII starting. Then we walk into an incredible room with SO many tanks and a few airplanes. So amazing. We learned a lot and had so...

Museum housing vintage planes & helicopters, plus simulators & hands-on educational exhibits.

Interactive museum near the 1797 wooden frigate made famous as "Old Ironsides" in the War of 1812.

Re-creation of an 1830s settlement with a costumed staff, rides & activities for family edutainment.

World's largest collection of US naval ships includes a WWII battleship housing a maritime museum.

Leafy complex with a science museum, history museum & 2 art museums around a grassy quad.

U.S. Navy–run submarine museum featuring photos, documents & vessels, including the USS Nautilus.

Vast art collection from ancient to contemporary , including European master works & a Gothic house.

Collection of antique motors & vintage bikes displayed in a château -style Victorian carriage house.

President Kennedy exhibits, videos & research collections in a striking I.M. Pei–designed building.

Floating history museum with live reenactments, multimedia exhibits & a tearoom.

Reimagined waterfront settlement featuring a 19th-century village, historic ships, a museum & more.

Modern museum features regional American/Asian art & artifacts, plus an atrium & garden restaurant.

Museum in an old mill with historical exhibits on industry & manufacturing, plus guided tours.

👍👍 Very nice estate, beautiful furnishings and grounds.

The original seat of colonial government & later state capitol, today housing historical exhibits.

Birthplace & home of the famous poet & recluse, now offering exhibits, guided tours & a bookshop.

Museum displaying wax figures of vampires, zombies & other characters from horror & monster films.

National Historic Landmark & original site of the Boston Tea Party, reenacted here each December 16.