The Zion Union Heritage Museum celebrates the African-American and Cape Verdean population and both its continuing and historical impact on Cape Cod. The museum has a vast collection of artifacts and historic documents relevant to the cultures represented by the museum.
The store offers sculptures, jewelry, post cards, music, prints, clothing and books relating to African-American and Cape Verdean culture and history.
Cape Cod Maritime Museum is on a spectacular piece of land right on Barnstable Harbor. It features exhibits on boat building, shipwrecks and maritime artifacts. On display is the hull of the Sparrow-Hawk, which sank off Cape Cod in 1626, bringing settlers to the new colony.
The museum partners with local schools to promote and share the maritime experience. The featured exhibits change regularly. Information about the schedule is on the museum's informative website. It offers classes in boat design, half-model making, ship in a bottle making and boat building.
The museum offers sailboat rides on the Sarah, the museum-built replica of the 1886 Crosby catboat, for reasonable single and family rates for a one-and-a-half-hour sail. The Sarah is slipped right at the museum site on the harbor.
Supporting the museum through membership starts at $35. The gift shop is small but packed with interesting souvenirs, maritime curios and books.
The mission of the JFK Hyannis Museum is to celebrate the legacy of President Kennedy and his family's special ties to Cape Cod while educating the community including students of all ages. The museum offers a multimedia exhibit of the days JFK spent on Cape Cod. It features over 80 photographs as well as a video narrated by Walter Cronkite depicting the president's experiences on the Cape. Several themed areas include charged oral histories of JFK's friends.