Plymouth Colony comes to life in our recreation of early Plymouth, complete with timber-framed houses furnished with reproductions of the types of objects that the Pilgrims owned, aromatic kitchen gardens, and heritage breeds livestock.

At The Patuxet Homesite, learn about the Indigenous heritage of the 17th-century lifeways of a culture that continues to thrive today.

At the Craft Centre, located in close proximity to the 17th-Century English Village, you will learn from a variety of skilled artisans and museum historians.

Mayflower is an iconic symbol of freedom.
Of the hundreds of ships that made the transatlantic crossing in the 1600s, she is the ship we remember.

At our reproduction of the Plymouth Colonists’ original 1636 grain mill on Town Brook, take a fascinating look at the mill’s history and workings, from the 200-year-old millstones grinding corn to the ecology of the brook that has powered mills throughout the centuries.