PROVIDENCE

Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University, 315 Harborside Blvd. 598-2805; www.culinary.org. A museum devoted to every aspect of the culinary arts. Ongoing exhibits include Diners, Still Cookin’ in the 21st Century; A Pantheon of Chefs; Kitchen Stoves: From the Open Hearth to the Microwave; and Decorated Cakes and Bread Showpieces. Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm. $7, seniors $6, college students w/ID $4, children 5-18 $2, younger children free, group rates available.

Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Manning Hall, Brown University, College Green (Prospect and Waterman streets). 253-8388; www.haffenreffermuseum.org. Dancing Tradition, Masking Change, 18th-  to 20th-century masks from the Haffenreffer and private collections. Tue-Sun 10 am-4 pm. Donations.

Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, Roger Williams Park, off Elmwood and Park Avenues. 785-9457, ext. 221; www.providenceri.com/museum. Museum: All Things Connected: Native American Creations; Natural Selections: Treasures from the Museum’s Collections; Circle of the Sea; Mission Moon: Past, Present, Future; Celebrate NASA’s 50th Anniversary. Daily 10 am-5 pm; $2, children 4-8 $1. Planetarium: Sky Views Sat-Sun 2 pm. Planetarium shows not suitable for children 3 and younger. $3, children 4-7 $2 (includes museum admission). Special program: Celebrate NASA’s 50th Anniversary; special displays, space activities, fun for all ages, Sat-Sun.

RISD Museum, 224 Benefit St. 454-6500; www.risdmuseum.org. 20th-Century Works from the Permanent Collection; Radeke and Danforth Gifts; RISD and Photography; Mountains and Rivers: Scenic Views of Japan; Styrofoam; Edo Theater: A Grand Gallery: European Paintings from the Permanent Collection (ongoing). Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm; until 9 pm the third Thu of each month. $8, $5 for 62+, $3 for college students with valid ID, $2 for ages 5-18. Museum members, RISD and Brown students and children 4 and younger admitted free. Free admission for everyone Fri noon-1:30 pm, Sun 10 am-1 pm, the third Thu of the month (Gallery Night) from 5-9 pm, and the last Sat of the month (Free-for-All Saturday).

BLACKSTONE VALLEY

Museum of Work & Culture, Market Square, 42 South Main St., Woonsocket. 769-9675; www.rihs.org. All about life in a New England textile city: Nine walk-through displays, two films, multiple interactive audios, hands-on displays and a re-created 1934 union hall. Mon-Fri 9:30 am-4 pm, Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 1-4 pm. $7, $5 for students and 62+, ages 9 and younger (with adult) free.

EAST BAY

Barrington Preservation Society Museum, 281 County Rd., Barrington. 289-0802. Exhibits highlight Barrington’s history, transportation and early residents. Tue, Sat 10 am-2 pm.

Cape Verdean Museum, 1003 Waterman Ave., East Providence. 228-7292; e-mail info@cvmuseum.org. Historic photographs and artifacts, including balai baskets, pano cloth and sculptures; documentary videos. Tue, Thu 1-5 pm; Sat noon-4 pm; groups by appointment. Free.

Coggeshall Farm Museum, Route 114 to Poppasquash Road, Bristol. 253-9062; www.coggeshallfarm.org. Historic farm portrays life in the 1790s. Daily 10 am-6 pm. $3, $2 children 6-15/seniors.

Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Mount Hope Grant, 300 Tower St., Bristol. 253-8388; www.haffenreffermuseum.org. Artifacts from the native peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Public lectures, performances, symposia, festivals. Tue-Sun 11 am-5 pm. $3, 60+ $2, children 11 and younger $1. Special exhibit: Dancing Tradition, Masking Change, exhibit uses 18th-  to 20th-century masks from the museum and private collections to explore how masks reinforce traditional identities and allow cultural tensions to be expressed through the code of dance.

NEWPORT

International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum, 194 Bellevue Ave. 849-3990; www.tennisfame.com. Tennis memorabilia housed in historic Newport Casino, built in 1880. Daily 9:30 am-5 pm. $9; 65+, students, military, AAA members $7; children 6-15 $5; children under 5 free, family of four $23.

Museum of Yachting, Fort Adams State Park, off Ocean Drive. 847-1018; www.museumofyatching.org. Exhibits include Sparkman & Stephens: Evolution by Design, a tribute to S&S founder Olin Stephens, who turns 100 this year; The Grand Voyages of Arthur Curtiss James (1867-1941), one of America’s wealthiest men; America’s Cup: The Newport Years, covering cup lore from 1930 to 1983. Also fine art gallery and small boat collection, as well as live boat building and restorations at the museum and International Yacht Restoration School (IYRS), across the harbor. Water taxi stops at the museum and IYRS in the summer. Wed-Mon 10 am-6 pm. $8, youth 17 and younger/students with valid student ID free.

National Museum of American Illustration, 492 Bellevue Ave.. 851-8949, ext. 18, or www.americanillustration.org. Original illustration art by Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish and 75 others in a Gilded Age mansion. Sat 10 am-4 pm, Sun 11 am-4 pm; guided tour Fri 2 pm; group/founder tours by reservation. $25, 60+/military with ID $22, students with ID $15, children (5-12) $10.

Naval War College Museum, 686 Cushing Rd.. 841-4052, 841-2101. Paper Treasures: The Naval History Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Secretary of the Navy 1974-1977, and permanent exhibits on the Navy in the Narragansett Bay area. Mon-Fri 10 am-4:30 pm. Visitors without a base decal must call the museum 24 hours in advance to gain access to the Naval Station.

Newport Art Museum, 76 Bellevue Ave.. 848-8200; www.newportartmuseum.org. Photographers’ Guild Members Show; Bob Rizzo: Shrines, Icons and Spirits; Dora Atwater Millikin: Geometry of Place. . Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Gallery Night 2nd Thursday of the month, 5-8 pm free admission. $6, seniors $5, children $4, children 5 and younger free; admission by donation Saturdays before noon.

NORTHWEST

Rhode Island State Police Museum and Learning Center, 301 Danielson Pike, North Scituate. 444-1010; www.risp.state.ri.us. Displays of the Rhode Island State Police since its inception in 1925, and how they relate to major events in Rhode Island history. Mon-Fri 8 am-5 pm (must call ahead); weekends by appointment. Free.

SOUTH COUNTY

Quonset Air Museum, Quonset State Airport, 488 Eccleston Ave., North Kingstown. 294-9540; www.theQAM.org. Twenty-seven aircraft on display and under restoration, including jets, props, helicopters and an F-14 Tomcat; children’s educational exhibits; guided tours. Daily 10 am-3 pm. $7; $6 ages 65+; $3 children under 12; military personnel free with valid ID.

Rhode Island Railroad Museum, Kingston Station, 1 Railroad Ave., West Kingston. http://members.cox.net/rirrmuseum/; e-mail: RIRRmuseum@cox.net. Traces the 1875 station’s roots from the time that the Stonington Steamship Co. opened it through the arrival of the Acela train. Sat-Sun 3-6 pm or e-mail for an appointment. Free.

South County Museum, Canonchet Farm, Strathmore Street, Narragansett. 783-5400; www.southcountymuseum.org. On the former Canonchet estate of Gov. William Sprague, the museum has seven interactive exhibit buildings where visitors can experience 19th-century life as it was in the towns, on the farms and on the sea. Costumed interpreters and traditional artisans bring the Victorian era alive. Wed-Sat 10 am-4 pm, Sun noon-4 pm. $5, seniors $4, children 6-12 $2.

Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum, Arcadia Village, 390 Summit Rd., Exeter. 539-7213; 491-9063; www.tomaquagmuseum.com. Native American artifacts from across the continent, focusing on southern New England. Stamped and painted ash splint baskets, corn husk dolls, beadwork, photographs, films. Exhibits: The Pursuit of Happiness: An Indigenous View, and The Narragansett Indian Church: Framing Community. Mon-Fri 11 am-4 pm. $4, children/seniors $2.

MASSACHUSETTS

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 51 Sandy Pond Lane, Lincoln, (781) 259-8355; www.decordova.org. 2008 DeCordova Annual Exhibition; Moving Through New England. Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm. $9, seniors/students/children 6-12 $6, children 5 and young free.

Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak St., Brockton. (508) 588-6000, ext. 118; www.fullercraft.org. Sculpture Transformed: The Work of Marjorie Schick. Daily 10 am-5 pm (Wed until 9 pm). $8, students/62+ $5, children under 12 free.

Harvard University Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge. (617) 495-9500; www.artmuseums.harvard.edu. Three museums for the price of one: European and American art at the Fogg Art Museum; German and Austrian art at the Busch-Reisinger Museum; and the arts of Asia, Africa and the Near East at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm, Sun 1-5 pm. $9, seniors $7 seniors, college students with ID $6, youth 17 and younger free.

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 100 Northern Ave. (617) 478-3100; www.icaboston.org. Damian Ortega; Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future; Momentum 10: Ranjani Shettar; Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhode; Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall: Works by Dave Muller. Tue-Wed and Sat-Sun 10 am-5 pm, Thu-Fri 10 am-9 pm. $12, seniors/students $10, youth 17 and younger/members free.

Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston (617) 267-9300; www.mfa.org. Winslow Homer: American Scenes; Preserving History, Making History: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Great Company: Portraits by European Masters; Sumo, Japan’s Big Sport; Zhang Dagian: Painter, Collector, Forger; Antonio Lopez Garcia; El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III. Sat-Tue 10 am-4:45 pm; Wed-Fri 10 am-9:45 pm. Closed July 4. $17, seniors/students 18 and older $15, 17 and younger free during non-school hours.

Museum of Science, Science Park, O’Brien Highway, Boston. (617) 723-2500; www.mos.org. New England’s largest science museum, includes IMAX, planetarium and laser shows, as well as changing exhibits. Sat-Thurs 9 am-5 pm; Fri 9 am-9 pm. Admission (exhibits only) $17, 60+ $15, children 3-11 $14. (Note: admission to IMAX, Omni, planetarium and other museum attractions may be higher; combination tickets available). Special exhibit: Baseball As America, more than 500 artifacts from the collections in Cooperstown, presented in a variety of themes, including invention and popular culture.

Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury St., Worcester. (508) 799-4406; www.worcesterart.org. Inky Tributaries: Contemporary Chinese Prints; Two Chinas: Chen Quilin and Yun-Fei Ji; Heavenly and Earthly Delights: The Essence of Nature in Brush and Ink. Wed-Fri, Sun 11 am-5 pm; Sat 10 am-5 pm; third Thursday of the month 11 am-8 pm. $10, seniors/full-time college students with current ID $8, youth 17 and younger/members free; free Saturday mornings, 10 am-noon.

CONNECTICUT

Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 625 Williams St., New London. (860) 443-2545; www.lymanallyn.org. Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm; Sun 1-5 pm $5, seniors/students $4; children 7 and younger free.

Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, 110 Pequot Trail, Mashantucket. (800) 411-9671, (860) 396-6890; www.pequotmuseum.org. Art, artifacts and interactive exhibits portray the way of life of the Pequots and other Northeastern Indian tribes. Observation tower affords panoramic view of tribal reservation and surrounding countryside. Daily 10 am-4 pm, with last admission at 3 pm. $15, 55+ $13, ages 6-15 $10, children 5 and younger free. Special exhibit: Race — Are We So Different?, film, still photography, interactive components and local programming invite visitors to explore race and racism in America from the perspectives of science, human history and everyday experience.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main St., Hartford. (860) 278-2670; www.wadsworthatheneum.org. Wed-Fri 11 am-5 pm, Sat-Sun 10 am-5 pm. $10, $8 for 62+, $5 for students 13 through college (with ID), free for children 12 and younger.