- Revolutionary Spaces
- Recurring daily
During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, while much of the nation's attention was turned toward the South, Northern states and cities also grappled with how to respond to Black Americans' calls for equal rights and treatment. This included Boston, which was…
- 855 Commonwealth Ave
- Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
The BU Art Galleries host a variety of ongoing exhibitions in three locations on the University campus focused on national and regional artistic endeavors. Tours Availability: Tuesday – Sunday (closed on holidays recognized by the school) Gallery Hours: 11 pm - 5 pm
- 43 Monument Ave
- Recurring daily
The Bunker Hill Museum’s exhibits and dioramas tell the stories of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the construction of the Monument, and the history of the Charlestown Neighborhood. The museum is housed in the old Charlestown branch of the Boston Public Library. Guests can request…
- Institute of Contemporary Art
- Recurring daily
Charles Atlas: About Time is the first U.S. museum survey of the pioneering interdisciplinary artist Charles Atlas (b. 1949 in St. Louis). Spanning 50 years of work, this retrospective is conceived as an immersive environment for the visitor, featuring several monumental…
- MIT Museum
- Recurring daily
Who decides how and when transformative new biotechnologies will be used? What questions do we need to ask before making decisions leading to irrevocable results? Join the conversation as you explore dramatic breakthroughs in genetic technologies and engage with artworks—witty…
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Recurring daily
American painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) and British sculptor Henry Moore (1898–1986) are among the most distinctive artists of the 20th century. They have long been admired for their extraordinary distillations of natural forms into abstraction—O’Keeffe’s iconic…
- Rose Kennedy Greenway
- Recurring daily
Artist LaRissa Rogers will participate in public events surrounding her work Going to Ground , which responds to the history of Zipporah Potter Atkins, the first Black woman to own land in Boston. The work is situated on Potter Atkins' homesite in what is now the North End area…
- Institute of Contemporary Art
- Recurring daily
The Gun Violence Memorial Project (2019–present) creates space to gather, remember, and act in light of the ongoing gun violence crisis. An ongoing collaboration between Boston-based MASS Design Group and Songha & Company, where artist Hank Willis Thomas is Creative…
- CambridgeSide
- Recurring daily
Celebrate some of your favorite moments, authentic props and costumes, characters, and locations from the extended Harry Potter universe. With iconic moments and magical creatures, you can explore the stories from the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts™ film series and Harry…
- New England Aquarium
- Recurring daily
This exhibit showcases the vibrancy and richness of coral reef habitats and helps visitors understand a reef’s vital role in the lives of tropical fish, sea turtles, sharks, and thousands of marine animal species. The Aquarium has been actively involved in studying and protecting…
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Recurring daily
Jewish communities around the world have long believed that beauty has the power to enhance ritual practice. According to the principle of Hiddur Mitzvah (Hebrew for “beautification of the commandment”), aesthetics are essential to all aspects of religious life. Especially in…
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
- Recurring daily
A midcentury voting machine. A pair of baby dolls from a famed science experiment. A lock of hair from the most photographed American of his day: Frederick Douglass. All were selected and photographed in natural light by Wendel A. White, the 2021 recipient of the Peabody Museum’s…
- Massachusetts Historical Society
- Recurring daily
Founded in 1791, the Massachusetts Historical Society is the nation's oldest historical society. The collections bring alive the stories of America's past through a series of changing exhibitions and public programs that are free to the public. Availability: Monday…
- McMullen Museum of Art
- Recurring daily
If you’re in the mood for a different kind of art, this museum houses collections loaned from institutions and art collectors all over the globe. Due to their reliance on loans, their exhibitions change quite frequently. In the span of a year, you could see pieces from China…
- MIT List Visual Arts Center
- Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
The MIT List Visual Arts Center offers visitors a dynamic program of temporary exhibitions in the galleries, as well as renowned permanent and public art collections located across the Institute making it an excellent location to discover unique artistic visions. Availability…
- Dorchester Brewing Co.
- Recurring daily
MOBA is the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, exhibition, and celebration of art that would not be welcomed to any traditional art museum. Our collection includes sincere art in which something has gone wrong in a way that results in a compelling, interesting…
- Museum of Ice Cream
- Recurring daily
Dive into a sweet adventure at the Museum of Ice Cream! The MOIC features over 14 interactive rooms, a café offering one-of-kind sweet cocktails and desserts, and best of all, unlimited ice cream! This museum is suitable for visitors of all ages!
- Museum of Illusions Boston
- Recurring daily
Museum of Illusions is excited to announce the opening of its highly anticipated Boston location! The Museum offers a mind-bending experience for visitors of all ages. Their interactive museum exhibits blend art and science to create optical illusions that explore and challenge…
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums
- Recurring daily
Plimoth Patuxet Museums explores the complex and interwoven stories of English and Indigenous cultures in the 17th century through immersive and experiential outdoor and indoor learning environments. The museum includes a reconstructed 1627 Pilgrim Village, where costumed…
- Concord Museum
- Recurring daily
Portrait Mode offers an intimate look at over 40 historical portraits from the Concord Museum collection, highlighting poignant stories of representation and absence and inviting us to consider whose faces become a part of history. During the nineteenth century, new forms of…
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- Recurring daily
On the Gardner Museum’s Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade, Mickalene Thomas uses photographic collage to immortalize her first muse: her mother. On view from October 1, 2024 – February 17, 2025, Sandra, She’s a Beauty, 2009 is an homage by a daughter, an aspirational mirror, and…
- Harvard Museum of Natural History
- Recurring daily
Embark on a daring voyage into the depths of human imagination at the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s new exhibition, Sea Monsters: Wonders of Nature and Imagination. Featuring ancient mariners' maps, literature, works of art, and natural history specimens, this exhibit…
- Institute of Contemporary Art
- Recurring daily
Tau Lewis (b. 1993, Toronto) transforms found materials into intricately detailed soft sculptures, quilts, masks, and other assemblages through intensive processes such as hand-sewing, carving, and plaster casting. A self-taught artist, Lewis’s practice is directed at healing…
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Recurring daily
The Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from the Collection exhibit invites visitors to explore how contemporary artists trace and address concepts of care through their materials, subjects, ideas, and processes. At their core, creating and looking at works of art are acts of…
- Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital
- Recurring weekly on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation tells the rich story of Massachusetts General Hospital's two centuries of history. Visit us to learn about the hospital's important contributions to the medical field and see how these discoveries and advancements…
- Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum
- Recurring daily
Experience life at sea aboard an 18th-century sailing vessel as you join a Son of Liberty and take part in the “Destruction of the Tea”! Throw tea into the very same body of water where the Boston Tea Party took place over 240 years ago. Take part in a multi-sensory experience…
- Boch Center Wang Theatre
- Recurring daily
Get an exclusive look at the Wang Theatre & the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame exhibits by booking a tour! Reserve your tour today! Public tours are offered on select days and times (subject to change). Explore current exhibits in the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame…
- Waterworks Museum
- Recurring daily
The Waterworks Museum interprets unique stories of the country's first metropolitan water system through exhibitions and educational programs on engineering, architecture, social history, and public health. Located along the Chestnut Hill reservoir, the Waterworks Museum…
- Downtown Crossing
- Recurring daily
WNDR Museum is an interactive experience: a multi-sensory showcase of art and technology. The message is simple: We are all artists. And as artists, visitors are more than passive onlookers. Whatever they do in the museum, IS art. Tickets are now on sale for visits beginning…
- Rose Kennedy Greenway
- Recurring daily
The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy today announced the commission and upcoming installation of the next Dewey Square mural from artist Jeffrey Gibson next month. Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, is celebrated globally for his…
- 1 Faneuil Hall Sq Ste 4
- Recurring weekly on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Located on the top floor of the historic Faneuil Hall, the Military Museum and Armory displays uniforms, medals, and weaponry from The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, among other, more modern military artifacts. Learn about the soldiers of the Ancient…
- 685 Commonwealth Ave
- Recurring weekly on Wednesday
This astronomical observatory owned and operated by Boston University. It's located on the roof of the College of Arts & Sciences and offers free public hours on Wednesday nights. • Although it won’t cost you a dime, you do need to obtain tickets ahead of time because there…
Every artist has their muses. For Édouard Manet (1832–1883), one of those muses was family. But the home life of the French painter was complicated, even by today’s standards. Manet: A Model Family, on view in the Hostetter Gallery from October 10, 2024 – January 20…
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- Recurring weekly on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Mary Ellen Mark, one of the great American photojournalists, frequently turned her lens to those who had been pushed to the margins of society. This fall, the Gardner Museum brings the story of Mark and one of her long-time personal and artistic partnerships to the Fenway Gallery…
- Titanic:The Artifact Exhibition
- Recurring weekly on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Your Ticket Aboard Titanic Awaits. Experience the wonder and tragedy of the world’s most famous ocean-liner, RMS Titanic. Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition anchors in Boston this fall for a limited time at The Castle at Park Plaza. Viewed by more than 35 million people worldwide…
- USS Constitution Museum
- Recurring weekly on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Old Ironsides is one of the most famous ships in the history of the United States. Learn about the legacy of the USS Constitution ship, the world's oldest commissioned warship, at the USS Constitution Museum. The museum of this historic vessel is open to the public for free…
- Downtown Boston Alliance
- Recurring daily
Check out Winteractive, Downtown Boston’s Outdoor Winter Art Exhibition! Winteractive is a free, walkable art experience featuring 17 artworks and interactive play elements, presented by the Downtown Boston Alliance. Inspired by the vibrant winter festivals and art exhibitions of…
- Peabody Essex Museum
- Recurring weekly on Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Encounter Ballroom , an installation that invites you to interact with and navigate your way through a field of geographic globes on the gallery floor. Each globe has been meticulously sanded to remove nations and human-made boundaries. Is the artist’s erasure a utopian gesture…
- Peabody Essex Museum
- Recurring weekly on Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
The human desire to connect with the departed has given rise to a fascination with the supernatural and the magical. Explore the essential role art and objects played for mediums and magicians “communicating” with the dead during the 19th- and 20th-century Spiritualism movement…
- Peabody Essex Museum
- Recurring weekly on Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Often called the unicorns of the sea, narwhals have fascinated people across cultures for centuries. These highly recognizable creatures spend their lives in the Arctic waters of Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia. Dive deeper into the world of these unique ocean dwellers and…
- 344 Congress St
- Recurring weekly on Saturday
The Boston Fire Museum houses some of the oldest devices used to fight fires in Boston. In addition to buckets, trumpets, and fire grenades, you will also see some of the earliest examples of fire engines – some dating back to 1793. Tour Availability: Saturday Saturday…
Join us as we celebrate and honor the legacies of activism here in the City of Boston! In this very special program, we invite you to learn and reflect on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, their mark on social justice movements today, and why we…
The ICA is offering FREE admission for all on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, January 20. Free advanced tickets are required and will be available to reserve beginning on Sunday, January 19 at 10 AM. Celebrate the legacy of MLK with art-making and three acclaimed exhibitions…
Join us for our annual MLK Day Open House, presented in partnership with Citizens. This year, the MFA offers free admission—including access to “Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore”—for Massachusetts residents. Celebrate the legacy of Dr. King by surrounding yourself with art…
- Harvard Art Museums
- Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Explore the complex and multinational economy of secondhand T-shirts through the vibrant mixed-media photographs of award-winning Ivorian artist Joana Choumali. Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces showcases 12 life-size hand-quilted and embroidered portraits of…
Aristotle brings us Decade of Decisions: A Retrospective of Aristotle Forrester—a collection of artwork that unearths the connection between ancestral memory and the abstract gesture. Like a jazz composition, each mark inspires and collaborates with the next to build an organism…
- Harvard Art Museums
- Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Discover the experimental methods of Edvard Munch, who creatively explored materials and techniques across media. A dynamic collaboration between curatorial and conservation experts at the Harvard Art Museums, Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking offers rare insight into the…
- Institute of Contemporary Art
- Recurring daily
In her awe-inspiring installations, Chiharu Shiota (born 1972 in Osaka, Japan; lives and works in Berlin) foregrounds stories of migration, home, connection, memory, and consciousness. Using line in the form of string, Shiota creates immersive installations that underscore human…