Visit the Lexington Visitors Center

Newly constructed in 2020, the Lexington Visitors Center serves as a one-stop shop for information about the history of the town, including the Revolutionary History Room and the U.S.S. Lexington exhibit. Our Tourism Advisors will be able to provide you with the history of Lexington and suggest gift items from our retail space. Tickets for the Liberty Ride Trolley Tour and the Battle Green Walking Tour can be purchased here as well.

The Visitors Center is the gateway for hospitality, information, historical interpretive services and exhibits, and art and cultural resources 362 days per year. Each year, we welcome 120,000 + local, national, cultural, and international visitors to Lexington. The Town of Lexington provides superior customer service through Tourism Advisors who personalize itineraries and inform visitors about the cultural opportunities in Lexington, the region, and the State.

Visitor Center programs primarily focus on honoring the spirit of Lexington as the Birthplace of American Liberty by utilizing interpretive guides on the Battle Green and Liberty Ride Tours, the Old Burying Ground, and the Diorama of the Battle of Lexington. Services provided at the Visitors Center include promotion of a broad range of offerings within Lexington and surrounding towns that enhance the visitor experience: a wide variety of restaurants reflecting our colonial past as well as our diverse population, a referral to the library archives to discover relationships with colonial ancestors; maps of the Minuteman Bikeway and 1300 acres of conservation lands that provide respites and sanctuaries for experiencing the mindfulness of nature; written narratives, maps, and directions to historic sites that connect the visitor to the spirit of cherished American values that emerged from the American Revolutionary experience; distribution of rack cards and posters that announce art and cultural events to our theaters, art galleries, concerts, farmers market, carnivals or re-enactments which are meaningful sources of entertainment; and the Visitors Center Gift Shop which provides the visitor with an opportunity to browse educational product displays and purchase American Revolutionary memorabilia, apparel and crafts made by local artisans, books and guides, colonial toys, and postcards of their travel sites. All these services promote our local economy.

In 2018, Lexington Town Meeting members voted to replace the obsolete Visitors Center with a new building for $5.1 million. The new Visitors Center is an inviting, inclusive, and accessible modern facility that introduces visitors and residents alike to a wide range of activities to do and see in Lexington and throughout the Commonwealth. This building was made possible by a $200,000 direct appropriation from the State to Lexington through the Mass Office of Travel and Tourism as well as a Capital Grant Agreement from MassDevelopment for $200,000 that was awarded from the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund.