Saturday Freebies: 48 Museums Have Free Admission Today

If the fee has been keeping you from experiencing some of Massachusetts' finer things, Museum Day Live! has an offer you can't refuse.

The annual event provides unique tickets for free admission today, Sept. 24, to participating museums across the country, including dozens in the Bay State.

The Museum Day Live! tickets, available online at SmithsonianMag, will provide free admission at any participating site this Saturday. You can also search participating museums.

ACTON, MA

The Discovery Museums

AMHERST, MA

Beneski Museum of Natural History at Amherst College Free everyday

Mead Art Museum, Amherst College Free everyday

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Yiddish Book Center

BOSTON, MA

Gibson House Museum

Museum of African American History Free everyday

Nichols House Museum

Old South Meeting House

Otis House

The Mary Baker Eddy Library

The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation Free everyday

The Shirley-Eustis House

BROOKLINE, MA

John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site Free everyday

CAMBRIDGE, MA

Harvard Art Museums

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

CHARLESTOWN, MA

USS Constitution Museum Smithsonian Affiliate Museums Free everyday

CHATHAM, MA

Atwood House Museum Chatham Historical Society

CLINTON, MA

Museum of Russian Icons

CONCORD, MA

Concord Museum

The Old Manse

EDGARTOWN, MA

Martha's Vineyard Museum

ESSEX, MA

Cogswell's Grant

FALL RIVER, MA

Battleship Cove

Marine Museum at Fall River

The Children's Museum of Greater Fall River

FALMOUTH, MA

Falmouth Museums on the Green

FRAMINGHAM, MA

Garden in the Woods

GARDNER, MA

The Gardner Museum

GLOUCESTER, MA

Cape Ann Museum

LINCOLN, MA

Codman Estate

MILTON, MA

Mass Audubon's Trailside Museum

NEWTON, MA

Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds

Jackson Homestead and Museum

PITTSFIELD, MA

Herman Melville's Arrowhead

SALEM, MA

Salem Witch Museum

SANDWICH, MA

Sandwich Glass Museum

SPRINGFIELD, MA

Springfield Museums

STOCKBRIDGE, MA

Merwin House

TAUNTON, MA

Old Colony History Museum

WATERTOWN, MA

Armenian Museum of America

WENHAM, MA

Wenham Museum

WESTON, MA

Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA

Williams College Museum of Art Free everyday

WORCESTER, MA

EcoTarium

Worcester Art Museum

YARMOUTH PORT, MA

Winslow Crocker House

Photo of Mary Eddy Baker Library courtesy of Kristina D.C. Hoeppner via Flickr