*This Museum IS NOT Participating in Museum Day 2011*
Smithsonian Affiliate Museum
115 French Street
Lowell, MA 01852
978-970-5000
Lowell National Historical Park Website »
LOWELL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, one of 390 units of the National Park Service, preserves and interprets the history of the American Industrial Revolution as experienced in Lowell, Massachusetts. The park includes historic cotton textile mills, 5.6 miles of power canals, operating gatehouses, and worker housing. Turn -of -the -century trolleys operate March through November.
MOGAN CULTURAL CENTER
The Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center is a program of Lowell National Historical Park in partnership with University of Massachusetts Lowell. It features a series of temporary exhibits.
Saint Patrick Parish -Our Story: Celebrating 175 Years From the treasury of the Archives of Saint Patrick Parish, this exhibit explores the history of Lowell’s first Catholic Church. Stories of the people and those they served will be told through photos, artifacts, and narratives of Irish, French, Vietnamese, Latino, and other parishioners. Exhibit runs through September 15, 2006. Mogan Cultural Center, 40 French Street, Lowell. Free Admission.
Syrian -Lebanese -Arabic Community Exhibit This exhibit will document the history of the communities in the Greater Lowell Area. Metropolitan Opera star and Lowell native Rosalind Elias will be joining everyone at the exhibit opening. Sunday, October 8, 2006, 2:00 p.m. Mogan Cultural Center, 40 French Street, Lowell. Free Admission.
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