You know those museums that are really quiet and you can’t touch anything? These are definitely not those museums. Take the Boston Children’s Museum. It’s one-of-a-kind, world-renowned center for enrichment. But the kids don’t care about that. They just like that it’s as fun as a barrel of monkeys. The Museum of Science has scary dinosaurs, loud electric bursts, and an Imax screen the size of a basketball court, and it’s still extremely educational. The Kidspace at Mass MoCA has really mind-blowing art, including some uniquely interactive work. At the Discovery Museums in Acton, kids can bounce a ball three stories high or engineer their own train track. Of course, if your family loves those quiet museums, we have plenty of those too.
Watch a video on Edith Wharton’s The Mount in Lenox.
Adolphus Busch Hall
Cambridge
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Cambridge
Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cambridge
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Cambridge
Imagine: A Center for Community & the Arts
Cambridge
MIT Museum
Cambridge
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
Cambridge
List Visual Arts Center, MIT
Cambridge
Exhibitions explore challenging, intellectual contemporary art making in all media: painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, and architecture/design. Map available... more
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Adolphus Busch Hall
29 Kirkland Street
Cambridge
617-495-9400 - B
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
1 Oxford St
Cambridge
1-617-495-2779 - C
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge
617-495-9400 - D
Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge
617-495-3045 - E
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge
1-617-495-4631 - F
Imagine: A Center for Community & the Arts
23 Bay State Road
Cambridge
617-661-0077 - G
MIT Museum
Building N51
265 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge
617-253-5927 - H
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
617-496-1027 - I
List Visual Arts Center, MIT
20 Ames St.
E15-109
Cambridge
617-253-4680
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