Museums
There are many museums, galleries and other cultural institutions in the Boston area. The “Calendar” section of the Boston Globe is published every Thursday and contains a fairly complete list of museum locations, exhibitions and special events, theater and music, or you can check SearchBoston for addresses and calendar of events.
Some public libraries have museum passes which residents may borrow to save the cost of admission. It is worth asking.
Websites for some of the major museums are listed below:
Boston
- Museum of Fine Arts
- Kennedy Library
- Isabella Gardner Museum
- Institue of Contemporary Art
- Museum of Science
- Boston Children’s Museum
Cambridge
- Harvard University Museums
- Fogg Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum (Asian Art)
- Harvard Museum of Natural History
Salem
Concord-Lincoln
- De Cordova Museum and Sculptures Park
- The Berkshires in Western MA
- The Mount: Edith Warton’s House
- Clark Art Institute
- MAss MOCA: Museum of Contemporary Art
Music
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Tanglewood, in Western Massachusetts is the summer home of the Boston Symphony
- Boston Pops summer time and winter, more popular programs
- Open rehearsals on Thursday mornings at 10.30 am – website for Boston Pops
- Boston Lyric Orchestra
Theaters
Visits
- Freedom Trail, a self guided tour of historic Boston from Boston Common to Charlestown.
- Boston Aquarium
- Trolley tours, there are several, allow you to hop on and off at the different stops
- Whale Watch, in the summer
- Harbor Islands
The DUCK tour: warmer months only, departing from either the Prudential Center or the Museum of Science, this tour uses amphibious vehicles from World War II to view Boston sights from the streets and also from the Charles River.