Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, Brewster

Name: Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
Address: 869 Main Street, Brewster, 02631, United States
Telephone: +1 508-896-3867

#1 among attractions in Brewster

Top attraction, Museum, History museum, Natural history museum

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Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, Brewster

Facts and practical information

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History is a small museum in Brewster, Massachusetts focusing on natural history and archeology. It consists of a main building with exhibits on local natural history and archeology, including an outdoor butterfly house and 400 acres of museum- and town-owned conservation land with walking trails. ()

Established: 20 February 1954 (70 years ago)Coordinates: 41°45'14"N, 70°6'58"W

Address

869 Main StreetLower Cape (West Brewster)Brewster 02631 United States

Contact

+1 508-896-3867

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Day trips

Cape Cod Museum of Natural History – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Scargo Lake, Scargo Hill, Scargo Tower, Cape Cinema.

3.5 miW
Lake
Scargo Lake, Dennis
90 min walk • Scargo Lake is a fresh water kettle pond in Dennis, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.
3.5 miW
Mountain
Scargo Hill, Dennis
89 min walk • Scargo Hill is a mountain in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. It is on the southeast shore of Scargo Lake.8 miles northeast of Dennis in the Town of Dennis. Scargo Tower is located at the summit. Black Ball Hill is located southwest and Hokum Rock is located southeast of Scargo Hill.
3.4 miW
Observation decks and towers, View point, Tower
Scargo Tower, Dennis
88 min walk • Scargo Tower is a 30-foot-tall cobblestone tower located atop Scargo Hill in Dennis, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.
3.9 miW
Music venue
Cape Cinema, Dennis
100 min walk • The Cape Cinema is a movie theatre located in Dennis, Massachusetts, United States, on Cape Cod. It specializes in independent American and international film, simulcasts of the Metropolitan Opera and National Theatre, and live music performances.
3.4 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Hokum Rock, Dennis
88 min walk • Hokum Rock is a glacial erratic boulder left by the last retreating ice age glacier, The Laurentine Ice Sheet, 20,000 to 12,000 years ago, when Cape Cod was formed. Hokum Rock is the second largest erratic on the Cape. The largest is Doane Rock at Cape Cod National Seashore in Eastham.
4.4 miW
Historical place, Museum, History museum
Josiah Dennis House, Dennis
112 min walk • The Josiah Dennis Manse Museum is a historic house at 61 Whig Street in Dennis, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story timber frame saltbox house was built c. 1736 as a home for Rev. Josiah Dennis, the first minister of the East Yarmouth Parish, as the Dennis area was then known. The Rev.
4.1 miW
Museum, Art museum
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis
106 min walk • Cape Cod Museum of Art is an art museum in the town of Dennis in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States in the center of the region Cape Cod.
3.8 miSW
41°43'33"N • 70°10'49"W
Dennis Pines and Dennis Highlands Golf Courses, Dennis
98 min walk • Outdoor activities, Golf
2.3 miE
Park
Cape Cod Rail Trail, Harwich
59 min walk • The Cape Cod Rail Trail is a 25.5-mile paved rail trail located on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. The trail route passes through the towns of Yarmouth, Dennis, Harwich, Brewster, Orleans, Eastham, and Wellfleet.
~1510 ftSW
Historical place, Windmill
Old Higgins Farm Windmill, Brewster
8 min walk • Old Higgins Farm Windmill is a historic Smock windmill off of Old King's Highway at Drummer Boy Park in Brewster on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. The windmill was built in 1795, it last ground grain around 1900.
4.1 miW
Cemetery
Dennis Village Cemetery, Dennis
104 min walk • Dennis Village Cemetery, also known as the Common Burying Ground and East Yarmouth Churchyard, is a historic cemetery at Massachusetts Route 6A and Old Bass River Road in the center of Dennis, Massachusetts.