Museums & Culture
Old Masters to modern wings, plus the halls and stages that fill a Boston evening — the city's best, mapped from your door.
USS Constitution Museum
The story of Old Ironsides and the people who built, sailed and preserved her.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
One of the country’s great encyclopedic collections — five thousand years, ancient Egypt to now.
Museum of African American History
New England’s largest museum of African American history, with historic sites on Beacon Hill.
The Mapparium
Step inside a three-story stained-glass globe at the Mary Baker Eddy Library.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
A Venetian-style palazzo of art and gardens — and the site of the 1990 heist, still unsolved.
Institute of Contemporary Art
Contemporary work by emerging and established artists, in a striking building on the Seaport waterfront.
Harvard Art Museums
Three museums under one roof in Cambridge, spanning more than five thousand years of art.
Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum
Board replica tea ships and join the reenactment. Our single must-do.
Boston Children's Museum
Hands-on exhibits built for learning through play, on the Fort Point Channel waterfront.