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Step into the past and explore 350+ years of history in the neighborhood of Puddle Dock at Strawbery Banke Museum.

Strawbery Banke Museum is unique amongst outdoor history museums in preserving a complete neighborhood’s evolution of over 350 years. The Museum is a real community telling the stories where people lived and worked for hundreds of years.

Explore historic houses, most on their original sites, including elegant mansions, working-class homes, a colonial tavern, and a 1940s corner store. Additionally, tour a cooper’s shop and a reproduction Native American wigwam. Strawbery Banke Museum's furnished houses and exhibit houses are open to the public for touring seasonally. The furnished houses are interpreted to different periods, with many of them furnished with the dishes, furniture, and other objects of their former owners. Some exhibit houses include the “People of the Dawnland” exhibit, exploring Abenaki culture; both past and present; “Water Has a Memory” exhibit, which educates visitors on the damaging effects to the historic houses from sea level rise and groundwater.

Meet the faces of history by talking to costumed historical roleplayers at Strawbery Banke who portray the real people who lived and worked in the Puddle Dock Neighborhood.

Spread across nearly 10 acres, the historic landscape at Strawbery Banke features a dozen gardens, with heirloom flowers, and vegetables.

The historic houses are open for tours seasonally. the Museum’s professionally-maintained outdoor skating rink operates from December through February.