Martha's Vineyard Museum

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151 Lagoon Pond Rd
Vineyard Haven, MA 02568
+1 (508) 627-4441
http://www.mvmuseum.org
The Martha's Vineyard Museum (MVM) is a historical and cultural institution collecting art, artifacts, oral histories, documents, and photographs that help tell the stories of Martha's Vineyard from its formation as an island to the present. Founded as the Dukes County Historical Society in 1922, it was officially renamed the Martha's Vineyard Museum in 2006 to better reflect its focus on both collecting the history of the island and presenting, educating, and sharing it with the public. In 2011, MVM purchased the 1895 Marine Hospital site in Vineyard Haven and set out to transform it into a new museum. MVM made the decision to maintain ownership of part of its original Edgartown campus in order to continue to steward the historic Cooke House and create a public garden for the community. In March 2019, the Vineyard Haven site opened to the public with great fanfare and a blockbuster exhibit celebrating the island's profound influence on the work of Thomas Hart Benton.

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Alisa J.
7/6/2025

Super cool and interesting museum. Admission is expensive but worth the price. They are doing a cool exhibit on jaws right now. The other floors about the history of the island are really...

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Courtney K.
6/1/2024

Bottom Line: A great museum about the history of Martha's Vineyard in a building that has stories of its own to tell. When visiting a new place I like to kick my visit off with a trip to the...

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April N.
5/19/2024

Their $18 entrance fee gives you free range of multiple historical and fascinating museum exhibits, including ferries and Clifford! Their exhibits are interactive and include recorded interviews,...

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Elizabeth S.
6/24/2019

The MV Museum has a new home in the former Marine Hospital in Tisbury. The new museum opened in the spring of 2019 and the museum is awesome. The glory of the museum is the Fresnel light that was...

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Van V.
8/22/2019

My friend lives in Vineyard Haven and I do long walks. Walked by the abandoned Marine Hospital for many years and thought how sad. How could that hilltop building be abandoned? She said there were...

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