Enjoyed waking here after lunch today, partly thorough the Harvard campus, and was especially…read moresurprised and pleased to find out that entrance is free and they also provide free lockers. Three floors of art with quite a few pieces I'd never seen before by artists such as Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso. I loved the gallery with Japanese screens and painted scrolls especially. Highly recommend!

This was my first time to the Harvard Art Museum and I loved it...it's so big and varied. You can…read moreenjoy paintings from masters as well as interesting culture from the ancient times. There are many docents and security people around in case you have questions. The main benefit is that it is FREE. The collections include approximately 250,000 objects in all media, ranging in date from antiquity to the present and originating in Europe, North America, North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. The museum has a large collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works that contains many famous masterpieces, including paintings and sculptures by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh. The main building contains 204,000 square feet of space for public exhibitions, classrooms, conservation and research labs, and other related functions. Just a great way to spend a few hours if you are in the area.

My kids and I enjoyed the MIT museum! Lots of cool history and innovation! The museum is kept clean…read moreand staff is friendly and helpful throughout our trip. Be sure to check out the gift shop on your way out!

Fun and interactive, but not worth the $20 admission (even $10 for students feels a bit high). Some…read moreexhibits feel dated, especially the AI section, which is less impressive than what you can explore at home. Would love to see more student projects or newer innovations. Overall nice, just a bit anticlimactic. It is nice though that they have free lockers for visitors.

A friend recommended this art collection in this beautiful space so I reserved tickets online for…read moretoday at 11 when it opened. You can buy your tickets in person as well. It's a separate entrance line than the preordered tickets. They do check your bags and tell you to leave your water bottles at the coatcheck on the 1st floor or downstairs at the lockers. We started upstairs on the 3rd floor, and worked our way down. Every room is specifically designed to highlight some theme by Isabella, from the brocade on the walls to the ceiling to the doors to the artwork/furniture everywhere. Because it's a three story mansion, it's decorated as such and has less of the feel of a gallery as a luxuriously decorated estate. Most of the artwork is not identified as it would be in a museum, but it can still be appreciated. There were a few signs along the way that explained the theme of the room according to Isabella. From the third floor especially, the live music in the central garden could be heard so well because of the magnificent acoustics. (There was music in honor of Juneteenth today). If it's your first time there, pay attention to the plaque by the elevator on the 1st floor that states it was the entrance that Isabella herself had used. Apparently that was the original entrance to the museum for a long time and the glass encased current entrance used to be greenhouses. We spent 1.5 hrs there and enjoyed exploring and appreciating the unique museum experience together. Highly recommend!!

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was commonly mentioned as a must see in Boston, so we decided to…read morecheck it out on a rainy Sunday during our trip. It seems like everyone else had the same idea as well because the museum was packed! Definitely recommend booking tickets at least a few days in advance because some time slots were sold out. We booked the 10:30am-11am time slot and it was already crowded at this time. Check in was straightforward and there are lockers in the basement to secure large bags. This is very different to the standard art museums. Isabella Stewart converted a home into a museum and it is amazing how much time and effort went into the process. There are three stories, each having several rooms to walk through. A couple rooms have limited capacity so we had to wait in line for 10-15 minutes to enter. My personal favorite part of the museum was the courtyard - very pretty with all the plants and statues. We also witnessed a proposal! I'm usually not a huge museum fan, but this was definitely worth checking out. Many people suggested listening to the audio guide available on the website, and while it was interesting, it was a bit slow and I wasn't able to listen to everything - wish the recordings had 2x speed. This is a very popular museum so the crowds made it feel a bit chaotic. I recommend going on a weekday!

Absolutely amazing museum! It's a whole day visit (and more depending on how in depth you go in the…read moreexhibits). This is by far the biggest art museum I have ever seen. Plenty of exhibits, information/maps to guide you, a huge cafeteria space, plenty of restrooms, and handicap accessible. Plan a day for yourself to visit! Our experience was to get there early (maybe a half hour after they opened). We were able to walk right up to the ticketing area. As we were leaving at around 3pm, all the queuing lines were full and there was a huge line around the building outside in the rain. Timing does matter here!

My third time to MFA but my first time to see the Japanese art collection (it's in a corner that's…read moredifficult to find--we asked for help from the docents because even the map is difficult to follow). We walked for 30 minutes from Brookline to Boston and enjoyed the skyline and different architecture on the way. Also took note of a Thai restaurant to catch for lunch afterwards on our way back. MFA is vast and beautiful and you can spend hours there easily. Great bookstore and coffee shop. We went first to the special exhibit (timed entry reserved tix online which includes general museum admission), called "Framed Gardens". Next we went to the modern art, then the Japanese art, European art, and finally the impressionist art. We probably only saw a third of the museum but we'd enjoyed our full for today. I would have a membership if I lived here! All the staff are knowledgeable and heHighly recommend!

I had a great time here at the Boston Museum of science. It was very big and there was so much…read morehands-on stuff to do with kids of all ages. They have a little food court inside of this museum and there is a parking garage that connects right to the museum as well. There is definitely a wide variety of things to learn and see here. I feel like just one day at the museum was not even enough. They do offer memberships and I can see why lol. This museum is definitely a place kids will want to go back to. One of my favorite parts of the museum was the brain area where they have a human brain and someone that explains all about it. I just thought it was pretty cool that they had a human brain on display. They even had exhibits that I did not get to see, simply because there was just not enough time in one day like I said. Highly recommend for a rainy day activity or a fun play date!

Now my kids are 8 and 3 years old…read more We still adore the Museum of Science and find their membership valuable. Looking forward to the new wing (currently under construction).

This is a cute concept, and since this is the reason I dropped by, I'll review this highlight…read moreinstead of the Dorchester Brewery. It is more like a collection of art around the brewery, but the signs are funny and it's interesting to note paintings that were donated vs. found in a thrift store vs. found in the garbage. It ranges from funny proportions to some truly bizarre. It's a great activity to giggle at with friends or make up fun commentary on a date. It's a fun little concept, free, and open late, so it's a funs stop in. The brewery features a full bar, arcade and board games and BBQ food as well. The owner even showed us an old cigarette dispensing machine now filled with chocolate packs. There's a lot going on and it is apparent a lot of thought and creativity went into the space. It's certainly not like a traditional "museum" but sometimes you need to see some bad art to really appreciate some good art elsewhere. You'll end up laughing at something.

Okay, so museum may not be the exact right word. This is kind of like a gallery in a brewery. I had…read moreseen an ad for this place on Instagram, and filed it away in my brain. I pulled it out of the file and went to see bad art. We walked in and the guy at the bar was very nice and pointed out the "route" of the paintings. The art was so fun--some worse than others. I really did understand what some of what the artists were thinking, and in other cases I just laughed and scratched my head It's small and we weren't there more than 20 minutes, but it was fun. Btw--it's free!!!

Stopped in just for the gift shop to get some more tea from when I was here last. They have…read moreexpanded with their tea selection too! Tons of different flavors now. There are a lot of other Boston themed gift items too!

I came to visit this museum mainly for the tea tasting. My friend and I didn't do the ship…read moreexperience where visitors get to throw "tea" off the ship. To enter the tea room, you have to go through the gift shop and exit the door on the left to walk down the ramp to Abigail's Tea room. Once you arrive you can go to the counter to order a meal (salads, sandwiches), or snacks like cookies, brownies or scones. There is an option to taste 5 different types of teas that were aboard the ships (and were eventually dumped into the water). You can opt for a cup ($5), Souvenir mug for $10.95, or a tea platter ($20) which includes a pot of tea and two scones and it says it serves up to 4 people. I opted for the $5 cup since it's unlimited refills. The tea shop has a big dining area with a view of the ships and the wharf. The 5 tea offerings included: *Young Hyson - "Early spring green tea typically picked before the end of April" *Singlo - " Chinese green tea varieties picked later in the season than early spring Hyson" *Bohea - "Black tea from one of the oldest and most famous tea growing areas of china, the Wuyi Mountains." *Congou - "a black tea, refers to a tea made with the highest mastery or artful skill to produce thin, light strips without breaking the leaves" *Souchong - "a classic black tea from the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian province in China with a very distinctive smoky aroma" I thought most of the teas were good, my favorite being the Congou, but the Souchong was not my favorite due to the smoky flavor. The gift shop was fun and full of neat souvenirs like teas, teapots, general Boston kitschy items, and things for the 250th anniversary of America. Well worth the visit if you are in the area!

Peabody by the numbers: 1.2 million objects, 500,000 photographs, 2000 maps and site plans, 900…read morefeet of documents, 7 yawns. Organized by geographical location, artifacts like headdresses, ornaments, textiles, ceremonial and domestic objects, models, ceramics, porcelains, costumes, wood carvings, baskets, plaster casts, musical instruments, drums, cloaks, helmets, figurines, canoes, cradles, fishing gear, jewelry, crystals, shells, shields, Neolithic tools, totem poles, paintings, artwork, murals, diary entries, prints, manuscripts, records, research projects, weapons, bones, and fossils helped define the shared values and customs that characterized their way of life. What I personally liked about this museum was that it was kinda meta, particularly the fourth floor which seemed to celebrate the history of mankind celebrating the history of mankind. I also was intrigued by what was "missing" due to cultural sensitivity, making me oddly long for a separate museum existing solely of things ripped out of museums, like a museum of cancelled history. We could call it the The Grand Institute for the Reconsideration of Historically Misguided and Socially Problematic Curatorial Acquisitions: A Repository of Artifacts Rendered Unpalatable by Contemporary Ethical Standards, or, for short, the Trump Presidential Library.

Plan to spend your entire day here. I spent four hours and that was still not enough time to…read moreinteract with all the exhibits. You'll get a chance to hear some dead languages and see some really cool artifacts. It's also connects to the Museum of Natural History so you also get to learn about the history of American food, see some cool crystals and fossils, and sooooo much more. Two things to keep in mind: it is very easy to get lost in this museum and the temperature fluctuates between exhibit, so stick with your party and dress comfortably.