The Library, the Mansion, and the Old Highway
Roger Williams National Memorial presents the colony's ideal of religious conscience without hiding Williams's place in English colonization and the sale of captured Native people after King Philip's War. Rhode Island State House offers free weekday access and tours beneath a huge self-supported marble dome. Providence Athenaeum opens its 1838 membership library to nonmembers for a small pay-what-you-can or fixed fee.RISD Museum uses more than 100,000 works as a teaching collection about art, design, materials, process, ownership, and display. John Brown House Museum connects 18th-century furniture and architecture with John Brown's patriotism, China trade, slave trade, and household wealth.Michael S. Van Leesten Memorial Bridge turns foundations from relocated Interstate 195 into a pedestrian and bicycle crossing. Roger Williams Park Botanical Center adds 23,000 square feet of public display gardens to a park founded from an 1871 bequest. Admission, tours, museum tickets, parking, and programs are separate from the PopHops Pass.