A Day of History
Welcome to Boston, Massachusetts, home of the American Revolution. Walk the Freedom Trail and visit landmarks of the Revolutionary Era, including the site of the Boston Massacre, famous Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere’s House, the storied steeple of the Old North Church, and Old Ironsides. Along the way you will pass through burying grounds where Sons of Liberty are interred.
Step off the Trail and visit the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum to learn about the most important event leading up to the Revolutionary War. At the museum, take part in a raucous town hall meeting, watch King George III debate Sam Adams, and throw tea overboard! A cherished treasure on display is one of the original chests of tea thrown into Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773.
If architectural tours interest you then Boston by Foot will bring you through iconic neighborhoods such as Back Bay and Beacon Hill. Explore the city’s distinctive architectural styles of the Colonial Era, Federalist Era, and of course the Victorian brownstones of Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street. On Beacon Hill, visitors view the most photographed street in America, the lavish décor of Louisburg Square, and historic sites along the Black Heritage Trail. Beyond Beacon Hill is the Charles River.
Boston is full of history and home to the nation’s oldest bar, restaurant, and continuously-operated hotel! The nation’s oldest professional ballpark, Fenway Park, is open for tours, as is the nation’s oldest college Harvard University. Want to get spooked? Go on a ghost tour! Interested in Presidents? Visit the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum in Dorchester and the Adams National Historical Park in Quincy. Boston is a treasure trove of historical landmarks, sites and museums covering 4 centuries!
Boston Common Visitor Center - Open Daily
The Boston Common Visitor Center is Open Daily! While visiting Boston, visit our Information Centers...
Framing Mass Killings Exhibit
Revolutionary Spaces’ new exhibit at the Old State House, Framing Mass Killings, explores how the...
How Do You See the World? + Mapparium™ Experience
How Do You See the World? features compelling stories about global progress—how individuals...
Impassioned Destruction: Politics, Vandalism, and the Boston Tea Party
On December 16, 1773, radical Bostonians threw 340 crates of tea into Boston Harbor to protest what...
Inn at Hastings Park Historical Tour of Lexington & Concord
Embark on a captivating historical tour of Lexington and Concord, delving into the events that...
Jazz Scene In Boston: Telling The Local Story
The Museum of African American History celebrates Boston's rich jazz history in this exhibit! Jazz,...
Lexington Visitor Center: Walking Tours
Let our costumed guides transport you back in time to 1775 as they share the events that occurred on...
MIT Starr Forum | Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear: progress depends on the...
Nichols House Museum Guided Tour
Home to an early 20th-century family of artists, thinkers, and social activists, as well as their...
Objects of Addiction Exhibit: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade
The Objects of Addiction Exhibit explores the entwined histories of the opium trade and the Chinese...
Polly Sumner Doll: Conventional & Controversial Cargo Exhibit
This is a Boston Tea Party 250th Anniversary Exhibit: This year, Revolutionary Spaces is...
Read & Work at the Athenaeum
Purchase a Day Pass to this National Landmark library and cultural center with stunning reading...
The Boston Desegregation & Busing Initiative: The Organizing & Legal Efforts to Eliminate Segregation & Secure Educational Justice for Black Students, 1960-1973
This panel will discuss the education issues brought by community groups to the Boston School...
The Death & Dying Ghost Tour
Recurring daily. The Death and Dying Tour is the only ghost tour for adults only, this is the...
The Ghosts of Boston - All Ages Tour
Recurring daily our All-Ages Ghosts of Boston Tour takes you on a family-friendly journey through...
Tour the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame
Get an exclusive look at the Wang Theatre & the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame exhibits by...
Beacon Hill's South Slope tour
Explore the connection between architecture and politics in this tour along the charming streets of...
Boston by Little Feet - tour for children & families
Travel through 300 years of history on this fun and interactive tour of Boston's Freedom Trail....
Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently
Henry David Thoreau was a leading figure in the American Transcendentalist movement and the era of...
King's Chapel - Guided Crypt and Sanctuary Tours
Guided by our team of knowledgeable and passionate Historic Site Educators, tours lead visitors...
Road to Revolution tour
Explore the makings of a revolution! From the Boston Massacre to Paul Revere’s midnight ride, the...
Heart of the Freedom Trail tour
This 1 hour tour is the perfect introduction to Boston’s Revolutionary history! Visit some of the...
North End: Boston's Immigration Gateway tour
Explore Boston’s oldest neighborhood, the North End, with our knowledgeable guide. Discover the...
Treasures from the West End Museum Archives
Step into the past and experience history interactively at the West End Museum's exclusive event:...
Dark Side of Boston tour
Recurring weekly on Sundays, Fridays and Saturdays until November 19, 2023. Hear tales of misery,...
Freedom Trail Tours in Spanish
Este tour es una caminata de una duración aproximada de hora y media, por favor traer zapatillas...
Guided Innovation Trail Tour
Proof that history is not just for the past! From anti-aging technology to gene editing, the newest...
The Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
The Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site is open for tours May...
Tour Harvard Square
Are you looking for an in-person experience, we are still offering public walking tours of Harvard...
19th-Century Photo Fair by The Daguerreian Society
For three days this month – starting Thursday, Sept. 28 – Boston will be the center of...
Hub of Literary America Walking Tour
Journey to Victorian Boston and see where writers and poets including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa...
Walking Tour of Jamaica Pond
Come with the Jamaica Plain Historical Society to walk around the Jamaica Pond. Once a district that...
Walking Tour of Sumner Hill
Join the Jamaica Plain Historical Society in a walk around Sumner Hill. Developed as a suburb by...
A Sail Through Time sailing tour
Step aboard the Liberty Star schooner for a guided sailing adventure on Boston Harbor. Sail...
Tour: Reinventing Boston: A City Engineered
A walk through Boston is a walk through time. On this guided walk through the Greenway and along the...
Rowes Wharf: Sensationally Good City-Making
When the modern Rowes Wharf was conceived in 1982, it was a design competition with a bold vision of...
"The Dye is cast”: The Interest and Ideals That Motivated the Boston Tea Party
The special show will delve into a pivotal event in American history, the Boston Tea Party, through...
Back Bay's Victorian Architecture tour
On this guided tour, explore how Boston’s back bay was filled in to become one of the United States’...
Mapping Places From Above: A Peak into the BPL's Bird’s-Eye View Map Collection
The Boston Public Library holds a remarkable collection of approximately 500 bird’s-eye view maps...
Return to the Renaissance at Hammond Castle Museum
Join us for one of two sessions as we Return to the Renaissance on our oceanside lawn with a live...
Boston's Loyalist tour
Hear the stories of Bostonians who remained loyal to the British crown. “History is written by the...
Guided Tour: Before Boston - Shawmut Peninsula Through 1630
Explore 12,000 years of human activity on Shawmut Peninsula, the lands we now call Boston. Follow in...
Colonial Cocktails And Radical Minds: A Revolutionary Book Launch
Join us for an evening of history, literature, and libations as Chattermark Distillers and Harvard...
Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic
Speculation Nation reveals how the era of land mania made Native dispossession a founding premise of...
Guided Tour: Jewish Beacon Hill
Journey to Beacon Hill’s North Slope at the turn of the 20th century. Explore the lives of its...
The Stones Cry Out with John Hanson
Many people visit Boston's historic burying grounds to see the monuments of historical figures like...
Gay Community News at 50: Defining GCN
In 1973, a small group of gay men and lesbians founded "Gay Community News," a local Boston...
Beacon Hill with a BOO!
Join us on October 28, 29 and 31 for our most popular event of the year! For more than 30 years,...
East Boston: Maverick Square & Beyond tour
Discover East Boston’s rich history and dynamic present by exploring the neighborhood of Maverick...
Bringing Phillis to Life
Phillis in London, a new play written by Ade Solanke, dramatizes and reimagines Phillis Wheatley’s...