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Mystic Pumping Station is a historic station on the Alewife Brook Parkway in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Isaac Bullard House, built in 1777, is a historic house at 77 Ashland Street in Holliston, Massachusetts.

The Martin W. Carr School is a historic school at 25 Atherton Street in Somerville, Massachusetts. It has been converted to condominiums. It was... built in 1898. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
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Parkman Tavern is an historic tavern in Concord, Massachusetts. The house was built in 1659 and added to the National Historic Register in 1979.

The Museum of Comparative Zoology, full name "The Louis Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology", often abbreviated simply to "MCZ", is a zoology... museum located on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is one of three museums which collectively comprise the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The current director of the museum is James Hanken, the Louis Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University. Many of the exhibits in the museum have not only zoological interest but also historical significance. These include a fossil sand dollar which was found by Charles Darwin in 1834, Captain Cook's mamo, and two pheasants that once belonged to George Washington. This museum and the other institutions that comprise the Harvard Museum of Natural History are physically connected to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology; for visitors, one admission ticket grants access to both museums. The Museum of Comparative Zoology was founded in 1859 through the efforts of zoologist Louis Agassiz, and the museum is sometimes referred to as "The Agassiz" after its founder.
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Armenian Library and Museum of America , located in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States, is an institution that has the largest collection of... Armenian artifacts in North America. In 1971, alarmed by the growing loss and destruction of Armenian books and artifacts brought to this country by immigrants from Armenia, a group of talented Greater Boston Armenian-Americans banded together to form ALMA to collect and preserve these books and artifacts. From humble beginnings in two rooms rented in 1972 in a church parish house in Belmont, ALMA grew and expanded into a Watertown church's 4,000-square-foot basement and opened to the public in 1985. In 1988, ALMA was able to buy and remodel the former Coolidge Bank and Trust Building at 65 Main Street in Watertown. After being opened to the public as the Armenian Library and Museum of America, the building was dedicated to the memory of Stephen P. Mugar and Marian G. Mugar, his wife. ALMA's present home is a four-story building plus basement containing approximately 30,000 square feet . ALMA occupies all of the basement, the first and second floors, most of the third floor and has its library on the fourth floor.
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The Harvard Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It has three... parts: The museum is physically connected to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and one admission grants visitors access to both museums. The Harvard Museum of Natural History was created in 1998 as the “public face” of three research museums — the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Geological Museum, and the Herbaria—with a mission to enhance public understanding and appreciation of the natural world and the human place in it. Museum exhibitions draw on Harvard University’s natural history collections; Harvard’s research faculty provides unparalleled expertise; and an array of programs for members and the general public sparks a lively exchange of information and ideas, founded in the spirit of discovery. With more than 180,000 visitors annually, the Harvard Museum of Natural History is the University’s most-visited museum.
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MIT Museum, founded in 1971, is the museum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It hosts collections of... holography, artificial intelligence, robotics, maritime history, and the history of MIT. Its holography collection of 1800 pieces is the largest in the world, though not all of it is exhibited. Currently, works of Harold Edgerton and Arthur Ganson are the two largest displays ongoing for a long time. Occasionally, there are various special exhibitions, often on the intersections of art and technology. Since 2005 the official mission of the MIT Museum has been, "to engage the wider community with MIT’s science, technology and other areas of scholarship in ways that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century." For a number of years, the Museum used to house the "Hall of Hacks" showcasing some of the famous MIT hacks, but the section was closed in 2001. This was done to free up gallery space for other exhibits; the artifacts and documentation have been retained for future historical research and exhibition.
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