The Jabez Howland House is one of Plymouth's most intimate colonial survivals, a timber-framed house with a direct line to the town's Mayflower story. It was home to Jabez Howland, son of passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, and is usually described as the only surviving Plymouth house where Pilgrims are known to have spent time.
The museum is small, but that is the point. Rather than another broad Pilgrim overview, you get low rooms, period furnishings, and a sense of how narrow domestic life could be in the 1600s. It pairs well with Burial Hill, Town Brook, and the waterfront sights because it brings the famous names back down to household scale.