Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, Plymouth County, United States | Museum

The Pilgrim Story,  the hazardous voyage, the 1620 landing, the fearful first winter, the First Thanksgiving at  Plymouth, MA ,  is the treasured heritage of all Americans. This dramatic saga of courage and perseverance has inspired the American people throughout the nation’s history.

The mission of the Pilgrim Hall Museum is to protect and foster this heritage as a dynamic national resource.

Pilgrim Hall Museum, built in 1824, is a gallery Museum in the center of historic Plymouth, MA in the United States.   The nation's oldest continuously operating public Museum, Pilgrim Hall Museum houses an unmatched collection of pilgrim possessions.   Among its irreplaceable treasures are William Bradford's Bible, Myles Standish's sword, the only portrait of a Pilgrim, Edward Winslow, painted from life and many more. 

The possessions and artifacts in the Pilgrims Hall Museum tell the story of brave and determined men and women, and their attempts to build lives and homes for themselves and their children in a new world.

At Pilgrim Hall Museum ,  you will also learn the story of the Wampanoag, "People of the Dawn," the Native People who inhabited this area for 10,000 years before the arrival of the new settlers.  The story of the interrelationship between the Wampanoag and Colonial settlers continues through the disastrous conflict of the 1670s, known as King Philip's War.