jeudi 3 mai 2018

A Visit To Some Interesting Museums Lowell

By Margaret Lee


Probably as you are reading this article right now you are in vacation in Lowell Massachusetts. You definitely do not want to spend your entire days in the hotel room and need to learn more of this town. Definitely you may be interested the museums Lowell has to offer you and other virtues. Do read on to know about some places worth visiting.

It may be a good idea first to have a map for the local area so you can plot your visits much better and make the most of your time. Having a map will go a long way in making sure your daily trips and excursions are more efficiently planned and productive.

Probably a good first place to visit will be the Boots Museum. This is a place dedicated to the town and what it went through in the early days of the Industrial revolution in America, around the time when the cotton gin was invented. It showcases in particular how hard life was for the industrial workers of the day and it will bring back a bit of nostalgia.

Next notable museum that one can visit is somewhat a hybrid art gallery and museum. It is a building which houses 245 working art studios and is called collectively as the Western Avenue Studios. These working art stations are open for the public only on the first Saturday of each month from noon to five pm. The general art gallery however opens noon onward on the days of Wednesday to Sunday. If you are not much of an art buff, you can take just a short jaunt next door to the Navigation Brewery for some great craft beer and local food delights.

If you are more for specialty museum, most of which deal with arts and crafts and the like, then you would most likely visit the New England Quilt Museum. Quilting is a distinctively American art form so it definitely deserves its own place in history. This place is the home of antique and contemporary quilts and they also have quilt classes for you to learn this slowly dying skill and art form.

Trains are also something of interest to almost all children of any age, and there is a train museum in Lowell represented by the National Streetcar Museum. Most of the exhibits will showcase trams and tramcars but there are sections with exhibits for locomotives. The second floor is where children have the most fun as this is more like a place where one can role-play being a tram conductor and operator. This museum is one that the whole family can enjoy, especially ones with smaller children.

And of course one should also visit the Mogan Cultural Center before leaving this town. The cultural center preserves and gives respect to local multiethnic culture and serves also as a resource center for cultural researchers. The center basically is a microcosm of the general state of affairs and way of life in the entire state during the advent of the Industrial revolution in America.

This article has thus shown you some possible places to visit while in Lowell. There are of course plenty of other places to visit that may be of interest, but what is important is that you have an open mind in absorbing new sights and information to make your stay worthwhile.




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