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    Eustis Estate Museum

    4.8 (8 reviews)
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    Hannah C. R.

    I visited the Eustice Estate today with my mom and brother. When we arrived around 2:30pm and purchased tickets at the visitor center, the nice woman working explained to us that Historic New England conducted surveys to find out how to get more Millennials into these home museums. Turns out, the answer is to give visitors lots of options! At this home museum you will take a self-guided tour where you can either speak with a docent, use their app and/or use the iPads located throughout. AND you can sit on the furniture, which is kind of cool (it's all been recovered though). Or just walk through and look. It's up to you! Because we visited in December, the house was beautifully decorated in a Victorian fashion for Christmas. The downstairs was also decorated with period furniture, much which is actually original to the house. The house was owned by the Eustice family for four generations, and only in the last few years was sold to Historic New England. The first floor has been restored to the way it would have looked in the Gilded Age. The upstairs had one or two rooms decorated, and there was an exhibit about fashion throughout time in Boston set up in the other bedrooms. The third floor servants quarters are roped off. I would say if you want to take your sweet time and read through all of the interactive bits, you should give yourself an hour. I'd love to see this place in the summer!

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