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Gilbert Bean Museum
10:00 A.M.- 4:30 P.M. Saturday,
Sunday, Tuesday, & Wednesday
Please call 781-848-1640 for information on current exhibits
The Gilbert Bean Museum houses the Braintree
Historical Society’s exhibit galleries, gift shop, and offices. The barn
portion (so called because it was built in the style of an 18th
century barn to compliment the Thayer House) was built in 1975 to house the
Society’s
growing artifact and library collections. A modern addition with expanded and
improved collections storage space was added later in 1995. The museum is named
in honor of Gilbert L. Bean (1912-1972), a Past-President of the Society and the
driving force behind the moving and restoration of the General Sylvanus Thayer
Birthplace from 1957-60.

Current Exhibits:
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Four Centuries of Fine Furniture
from the 16th -19th Centuries |
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The History of Braintree’s Fire
Department |
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| A Nation Divided: An Exhibit on
the Civil War |
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