A unique environment where play and learning converge, the Museum offers abundant opportuntities for rich exploration and discovery. An immersive encounter with diverse content, the Museum experience satisifies the deeply rooted instinct to play and create. (Curated content from bostonchildrensmuseum.org)
The Institute of Contemporary Art strives to share the pleasures of reflection, inspiration, provocation, and imagination that contemporary art offers through public access to art, artists, and the creative process. (Curated content from www.icaboston.org)
The Gibson House Museum is a private, nonprofit house museum in Boston's historic Back Bay neighborhood. The home served as residence to three generations of Gibson family members and their household staff between 1859 and 1954. The Museum’s four floors of period rooms, including the original kitchen, are a time capsule of domestic life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Curated content from www.thegibsonhouse.org)
The Freedom Trail is a unique collection of museums, churches, meeting houses, burying grounds, parks, a ship, and historic markers that tell the story of the American Revolution and beyond. (Curated content from www.thefreedomtrail.org)
Built in 1723, Christ Church in the City of Boston, known to all as the Old North Church, is Boston’s oldest surviving church building and most visited historical site. (Curated content from www.oldnorth.com)
The iconic artisan Paul Revere and his home embody the cultural heritage and historical memory of Boston. Our programs reflect our commitment to richer interpretation through engaging educational presentations, a broadened thematic base, active collaborative programming, and an expanded notion of audience with outreach to underserved groups. (Curated content from www.paulreverehouse.org)
The New England Aquarium is home to thousands of aquatic animals—from northern fur seals to giant Pacific octopus to African penguins. We also offer a wide range of exhibits, including the largest shark and ray touch tank on the East Coast and the Giant Ocean Tank, a four-story coral reef home to Myrtle the green sea turtle and hundreds of other Caribbean animals. (Curated content from www.neaq.org)
The remains of thousands of Boston citizens and notables lie within the walls of the Granary. Along with Massachusetts governors, mayors and clergymen, visitors will find the graves of three signers of the Declaration of Independence: Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Robert Treat Paine; Peter Faneuil, benefactor of the famed downtown Boston landmark; patriot and craftsman Paul Revere; James Otis, Revolutionary orator and lawyer; and five victims of the Boston Massacre. (Curated content from www.boston.gov)
During the Revolution, the burying ground's prominent location overlooking the harbor gave it strategic military importance. At its southwest side the British established their North Battery and an earthworks from which they directed the shelling of Bunker Hill and ultimately the torching of Charlestown. (Curated content from www.boston.gov)