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Planning Your Visit

Planning Your Visit

Plan Your Perfect Day at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum

No reservations are necessary to visit the house during regular public hours. We recommend that a group of six or more people call ahead to schedule their visit. Guided tours may be scheduled for groups of 8 or more. Click here for more information.

Children are very welcome at the house museum: a scavenger hunt is available to encourage careful looking and make the museum visit a more hands-on experience. Ask our front desk staff when you arrive.

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Digital Guide

The digital guide provides photos and audio descriptions of the different exhibits on display throughout the museum. This will allow visitors to engage with the museum in a more interactive and accessible way.

Patrons are also able to print out the self-guided tour to read

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RJD Digital Guide

View Our Online Digital Guide

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Self Guided Tour

Download our self guided tour

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Planing Your Visit

Frequently Asked Questions

Gift Shop
Our Gift Shop is full of RJD memorabilia, local crafts, apparel, and books. It is located in the main entrance of the museum. Take a look around before you walk through the house, or stop in after you wander around the gardens. It is open as long as the museum house is open and is subject to the same holiday times and cancellations.
Accessibility

The Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum is a historic house. We have made all reasonable efforts to equip the house and grounds to be accessible to the public. The second floor of the house is not handicap accessible and may only be reached by a staircase. The first floor is accessible to the public via an alternative entrance*. The grounds and garden are fully accessible and can be accessed via the accessible entrance on Madison Street. There is a handicap parking space on Madison Street.

*Due to a malfunction with our lift system, the first floor of the museum house is currently only accessible by a few stairs via an alternative entrance. We are in the process of installing a wheelchair ramp. Please call ahead with any questions.

A digital guide is available to anyone who wishes to view the contents of the house. The Self Guided Tour is available in three languages (Spanish, Portuguese, and English)

Hours and Admission

MUSEUM HOURS

  • Wednesday through Saturday, 10am – 4pm.
  • Sundays, 12 – 4pm (Memorial Day through Indigenous People’s Day)
  • Closed select holidays & December 25 through January 1.
  • Closed at 12pm on November 22 and December 24.

MUSEUM ADMISSION

  • Adults: $8
  • AAA Member/Seniors (65+)/Students: $6
  • Youth (age 7 – 17): $3
  • Children (under 7): Free
  • NEMA & AAM Members: Free
  • Museums for All – EBT, SUN Bucks, WIC and ConnectorCare Cardholders* (up to 4 people), Wunderfund: Free
  • Active Duty Military: Free (between Memorial and Labor Days)
  • Family max: $25

*We are proud to participate in the Card to Culture program, a collaboration between Mass Cultural Council and the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) Nutrition Program, and the Massachusetts Health Connector, by broadening accessibility to cultural programming.

The garden is free to the public and open from sunrise to sunset, daily.

The Museum is closed on these select holidays:

  • Martin Luther King Day
  • President’s Day
  • Easter Sunday
  • Patriot’s Day
  • Memorial Day
  • Juneteenth
  • July 4
  • Labor Day
  • Indigenous People’s Day
  • Thanksgiving
  • December 25
  • January 1
Group Tours

Click here for more information about group tours. 

School Trips

Click here to learn more about school trips.