Otters and Owls at the Foot of the Hills: Blue Hills Trailside Museum
At the foot of Great Blue Hill in Milton, Mass Audubon’s Blue Hills Trailside Museum is where Boston families start their mountain: outdoor exhibits home...
Category : Museums
A Living Tree Museum: Family Wanders at the Arnold Arboretum
Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain is 281 acres of the world’s trees, arranged by Olmsted into rolling hills and winding paths that families have...
Robots, Holograms and Big Ideas: The MIT Museum for Curious Families
At the edge of the MIT campus in Cambridge, the MIT Museum shows families where the future is being prototyped: galleries of famous robots, kinetic...
Glass Flowers and Giant Sloths: Harvard Museum of Natural History for Families
In Cambridge, Harvard’s natural history museum packs a university’s treasures into galleries kids can grasp: a 42-foot Kronosaurus skeleton, a room of sparkling minerals, taxidermy...
All Hands on Deck: Family Adventures at the USS Constitution Museum
In the Charlestown Navy Yard, beside the oldest commissioned warship afloat, the USS Constitution Museum turns naval history into a game kids win. Young sailors...
Climb, Splash and Create: A Family Day at Boston Children’s Museum
On the Fort Point Channel waterfront, Boston Children’s Museum has been perfecting childhood since 1913. Its three-story New Balance Foundation Climb turns the lobby into...
17th-Century Sounds Come Alive at the Gardner Museum: ACRONYM Celebrates the Esther Exhibition on October 18
Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is pairing masterpieces with music! On Sunday, October 18, 2026, at 1:30 PM, the acclaimed early-music ensemble ACRONYM takes the...
The Way We Never Were: 70 Postwar Photographs Capture Mid-Century America at Harvard Art Museums
Boston just got a wonderful new reason to fall in love with photography. The Harvard Art Museums have opened The Way We Never Were: The...
Trevor Noah, Astronauts and More Light Up the Museum of Science’s New Public Science Common This Fall
Boston’s Museum of Science is turning up the excitement this fall! The museum just unveiled a star-studded lineup of events for its brand-new William and...
Picasso, Miró and Dalí Go Unbound at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Three of Spain’s greatest artists are rewriting the rules of the book at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Picasso, Miró, Dalí: Unbound, now on...
