Where Mass. Ranks as a Museum State

Massachusetts Among Top State for Museum Enthusiasts

International Museum Day is May 18, and museum lovers have much to love in Massachusetts. The state is home to all types of museums from art to American history.

We took a break from finding the best Massachusetts sports betting promos to see where the state stands nationally in of its museum presence.

Using data from the 2018 edition of the Institute of Museum and Library Services Institute of Museum and Library Sciences’ Data Files, BetMassachusetts.com calculated the number of “Museums, Botanical Gardens, Planetariums, and Zoos” per square mile, and ranked them accordingly.

Here are the results compiled by BetMassachusetts.com, your source forMassachusetts sports betting.

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States with Most Museums per Square Mile

Rank, State	No. of Museums	Area (sq. miles)	Museums per 10,000 sq. mi.
1. Rhode Island	44	1545	284.79
2. Massachusetts	223	10554	211.29
3. Connecticut	106	5543	191.23
4. New Jersey	148	8722	169.69
5. Delaware	28	2489	112.50
6. Maryland	138	12405	111.24
7. New York	485	54554	88.90
8. Pennsylvania	322	46054	69.91
9. Ohio	259	44825	57.78
10. Hawaii	62	10931	56.72
11. New Hampshire	50	9349	53.48
12. Virginia	221	42774	51.67
13. Florida	335	65757	50.90
14. Illinois	271	57913	46.79
15. California	739	163694	45.15
16. Vermont	40	9616	41.60
17. Indiana	146	36419	40.08
18. South Carolina	105	32020	32.79
19. Tennessee	127	42114	30.13
20. Georgia	172	59425	28.94
21. Kentucky	111	40407	27.47
22. Wisconsin	176	65496	26.87
23. Washington	174	71297	24.40
24. Alabama	116	52420	22.13
25. Michigan	212	96713	21.92
26. Iowa	122	56272	21.68
27. Maine	76	35379	21.48
28. West Virginia	49	24230	20.22
29. Louisiana	105	52738	19.90
30. Missouri	131	69706	18.79
31. Texas	448	268596	16.68
32. Minnesota	139	86935	15.99
33. Colorado	160	104093	15.37
34. North Carolina	209	139391	14.99
35. Oklahoma	92	69988	13.16
36. Mississippi	60	48431	12.38
37. Kansas	98	82278	11.91
38. Oregon	117	98378	11.89
39. Nebraska	80	77347	10.34
40. Utah	66	84896	7.77
41. South Dakota	55	77115	7.13
42. Idaho	56	83568	6.70
43. New Mexico	75	121590	6.17
44. Wyoming	51	97813	5.21
45. Arkansas	70	137732	5.08
46. Montana	73	147039	4.96
47. Arizona	127	295234	4.30
48. Nevada	45	110571	4.07
49. North Dakota	36	183108	1.97
50. Alaska	43	665384	0.65

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The Massachusetts Museum Scene

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has a wide array of exhibits covering everything from ancient Egypt to French Impressionism. More French Impressionism can be found at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown. For a more mainstream type of truly American art, there’s the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge. It houses the largest collection of Rockwell drawings and paintings anywhere. For more contemporary art, there’s Mass MoCA in North Adams. Architecture enthusiasts who like a touch of the odd should also stop by Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in her former Venetian palace of a home.

For those interested in history, check out the Boston Tea Party Ships, where actors re-enact one of the key events in the nation’s founding. Not far from there is the John F. Kennedy Presidential Museum and Library, with exhibits on Kennedy’s debate with Richard Nixon, the Cuban Missile Crisis and more – there’s a second Kennedy museum in Hyannis.

Also, in Boston, is the interactive USS Constitution Museum, where you get a sense what it was like to serve in the Navy 200 years ago. If you want to know more about living during the American Revolution, take a ride, not at midnight, to the Paul Revere House. For a look at the past and the future, there’s Boston’s Museum of Science. If the weather is nice and you’re up for a boat ride to Nantucket, go there to see the Whaling Museum, which features much more than a 46-foot sperm whale skeleton, but that might be enough to lure the kids. Want to skip the water? New Bedford has its own Whaling Museum.

For a murderous piece of history, there’s the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River. For something a little more quaint there’s the House of Seven Gables in Salem. Salem is also home to the Peabody Essex Museum, featuring New England art and culture. As you might expect in spooky Salem, there’s also Count Orlok’s Nightmare Gallery Monster Museum, and Witch House, which dates back the 17^th century Salem witch trials

Lastly, if you don’t want to trek around Boston or the whole state, just visit Harvard University in Cambridge, which has its own art museum, own natural history museum, and museums on science and culture, and more.

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