lundi 7 mai 2018

Visiting A Few 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.

First of all you need to get a guide map, which can be bought from your hotel lobby or if not, from a local gas station. This map should show you the points of interest of the town and relative distances, so you can at least plot the travels of your day with efficiency.

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.

Western Avenue Studios is a hybrid museum geared mostly for art buffs and the like. It is a huge building with over two hundred working art workshops that are open only to the public on the first Saturday of each month. The general gallery however is open from Wednesday to Sunday. This is the place for you if you love art with a bit of exploration ad discovery on the side. However, should this place be not up to your liking, you can always have fun at the Navigation Brewery next door where they serve craft beer and plenty of local food creations.

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.

For train lovers, whether young or old, they should enjoy themselves at the National Streetcar Museum. This is a specialty museum dedicated to railed transportation, but more geared for the street trams and such. Children and the young of heart can also enjoy the second floor of this place, which has been converted to one huge play area where one can pretend to be a tramway operator and such. It is great fun for families with 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.

In sum this article has recommended quite a few places that you should visit while in Lowell. Plenty of other places exist of course that may or may not be as interesting, but the point is to go out and learn more and have fun while doing it.




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