The Mary Baker Eddy Library sits on the Christian Science Plaza along Massachusetts Avenue, near Symphony Hall on the Back Bay/Fenway edge of Boston. It is best known as the home of the Mapparium, an extraordinary three-story stained-glass globe that visitors enter via a glass bridge, experiencing the world from the inside as it appeared…
The Sports Museum is a nonprofit museum housed inside TD Garden, the downtown arena that is home to the Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins. Spread across multiple levels of the building, its exhibits celebrate New England’s deep sports history, with memorabilia, photographs, life-size statues of local legends, and displays spanning basketball, hockey, baseball, football, and…
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum houses the personal collection of its founder, a Gilded Age art patron who arranged her paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative objects in a four-story building modeled on a Venetian palazzo. Galleries surround a glass-roofed central courtyard filled with flowers and greenery year-round, and Gardner’s will famously requires the collection to…
The Museum of African American History is New England’s largest museum dedicated to preserving and interpreting the history of free and enslaved Black Americans. Its Boston campus sits on Beacon Hill and centers on two landmark buildings: the African Meeting House of 1806, the oldest surviving Black church building in the United States, and the…
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