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ATTRACTIONS

What to visit, while staying in Lowell? To get an idea, check out the list below, which contains some of the most popular attractions in the city.

 

Lowell National Historical Park, which preserves and interprets the history of the American Industrial Revolution in Lowell. The park includes historic cotton textile mills, 5.6 miles of canals, operating gatehouses, and worker housing. Guided tours are available seven days a week.

 

American Textile History Museum, home to one of the largest collections of its kind in the world, featuring thousands of books, trade catalogs, business records and personal papers, prints and photographs, a growing costume collection, millions of textiles samples, and hundreds of machines used in textile manufacture.

 

Whistler House Museum Of Art, which maintains a permanent collection of 19th and early 20th century New England Representational artists and etchings by James McNeill Whistler. Among the museum's collection's highlights there are works by Arshile Gorky, George Loftus Noyes, Harold C. Dunbar, William Preston Phelps, Frederick Porter Vinton, Louis Kronberg, William Morris Hunt, and Thomas Bayley Lawson, among others.

 

Revolving Museum, which is an evolving laboratory of creative expression for people of all backgrounds, ages, and abilities who seek to experience the transformative power of art. Through public art, exhibitions, and educational programs the museum is seeking to promote artistic exploration and appreciation.

 

Annual Events

There are dozens of fun and exciting celebrations, happening throughout the year in Lowell, among the most popular and expected ones being:

- the African Festival, which takes place each June, featuring traditional African food, music, dancing, fashion, art and more,

- Earth Day Festival, celebrated in April, featuring environmentally conscious groups and artists, children's activities, demonstrations, hands-on workshops, greenhouse tours, and local entertainment,

- Latin American Festival, which also happens in June, Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival, which is an annual event named in honor of one of the most popular of the writers, musicians, and poets of the ''Beat Generation'', happening in October,

- and Lowell Folk Festival, which is a free, three day event that takes place in the summer, usually the third weekend in July.

 

Shopping

Among the top places to shop, in or near Lowell, MA, there are:

 

- Fashion La Pequena: 238 High Street, Lowell, MA.

- Giovanni's Shoes: 134 Merrimack Street, Lowell, MA.

- Payless Shoe Source: 1200 Bridge Street, Lowell, MA.

- Boot Hydropower: 95 Bridge Street, Lowell, MA.

- Loon Hill Plaza: 28 Loon Hill Road, Dracut, MA.

- Nordstrom Burlington Mall: 75 Middlesex Turnpike, Burlington, MA.

- Woburn Mall: 300 Mishawum Road, Woburn, MA.

 

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