Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Living history museum in Plymouth, United States.
Plimoth Patuxet Museums is a living history museum in coastal Massachusetts with reconstructed buildings, ships, and mills from the 1600s. It includes an English Village replica, the Mayflower II ship, a Wampanoag Homesite, and a working grist mill.
The museum sits where Wampanoag people and English colonists first met in 1620, starting the colonial period in New England. This encounter shaped the region's history for centuries to come.
Staff members in period dress demonstrate everyday work like cooking and farming from both Wampanoag and English viewpoints of the 1600s. You experience how both groups actually lived by watching these activities happen in front of you.
The museum grounds sit along the coast and open seasonally from March through November. Combination tickets let you visit multiple sites across two consecutive days to explore everything at your own pace.
The working grist mill uses water power to process corn the old-fashioned way and produces fresh cornmeal sold in the museum shop. This hands-on grain processing reveals how people actually made food centuries ago.
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