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museums

Baxter the robot

In the City

Robots, Time Machines, Virtual Reality, More at the Museum of Science

June 12, 2017

ICA Free Thursday Nights not only offer free admission each week, but free concerts by Berklee College of Music students each Thursday in July and August.

Fine Arts

Free Thursday Nights at the Institute of Contemporary Art

June 1, 2017

Lauren Whitley, senior curator of textile and fashion arts for the MFA, shows students a mid-18th-century English brocaded silk dress, once worn by Lydia Catherine, Duchess of Chandos.

Style

One Class, One Day: Threading History

April 10, 2017

fall leaves

Holiday

Your Guide to a Fun Columbus Day Weekend

October 7, 2016

Annika Chan (CAS 18), Elaine Jonas (CAS 18), Alli Griffiths (CAS 18) and Dasha Duncan (CAS 18) eating ice cream during an ice cream social

Soccer

Labor Day Weekend in Boston

September 2, 2016

Gilt-silver mummy mask of Queen Malakaye artifact

In the City

Glittering Treasures from Ancient Nubia at MFA

August 12, 2016

Lucy in the Field with Flowers

Visual Arts

Museum of Bad Art Brings Worst Art to Widest Audience

August 8, 2016

Portrait of Frederick Douglass

History

Picturing Frederick Douglass

July 25, 2016

Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

Drawing

Harvard Art Museums Offer Dazzling Array of Shows

July 12, 2016

Boston-based folk trio Lula Wiles

Bands

Harborwalk Sounds: Free Waterfront Concerts Each Thursday

July 7, 2016

View of the front of the William Hickling Prescott House in Boston, Massachusetts

Things-to-do

A Walk through the 19th Century

July 6, 2016

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Neighborhood Night

In the City

Free Neighborhood Night at Gardner Museum Tonight

August 6, 2015

The Longfellow House, former home of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was Washington’s headquarters during the Siege of Boston.

Culture

A House Steeped in History, Both Literary and Political

August 5, 2015

Patty Larkin performing at The Center for Arts Natick

In the City

Legendary Local Folk Singer Performs Tonight

August 5, 2015

Adults (only) will be able to wander and weave their way through the Boston Children’s Museum climbing maze tonight when the museum hosts Boston Grown-Ups Museum: Summer Play.

Event Preview

Play and Party at the Boston Children’s Museum

July 29, 2015

Stephen Kurkjian

museums

Lost

July 27, 2015

Lions lounge at the Franklin Park Zoo

Local

Lions, Tigers, and Yes, Dinosaurs, at the Franklin Park Zoo

July 23, 2015

Sulley, the star of Pixar’s Monsters Inc. and Monsters University, is just one of the characters visitors can pose with in the current Museum of Science exhibition The Science Behind Pixar.

Film

Exploring the Science Behind Pixar

July 16, 2015

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki nami-ura), also known  as the Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji  (Fugaku sanjûrokkei) Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849) about 1830–31 (Tenpô 1–2) Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper * William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Arts & Culture

Celebrating Japan’s Most Famous Artist

June 22, 2015

grape vines at Arnold Arboretum in Boston

In the City

A Walk in the Park

June 15, 2015

A Walk in the Park