Location: Back Bay
Top Things to do in Back Bay
What to do and see in Back Bay, Massachusetts (MA): The Best Museums
Walk the Freedom Trail the first time you visit Boston and you'll quickly get a sense of this coastal city's revolutionary spirit and history. But make sure you also explore some of Boston's fine museums (try the Isabella Stewart Gardner, featuring masterpieces displayed in their collector's mansion) and old neighborhoods (like the North End, Boston's Little Italy). You can't claim to have experienced real Boston culture, though, until you've watched a Red Sox game from the bleachers.
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1. McCormick Gallery
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
2. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center
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5.0 based on 4 reviews
The Leventhal Map Center is located on the first floor of the Boston Public Library's historic McKim Building in Copley Square. It includes an exhibition gallery featuring changing thematic exhibitions, a public learning center with research books, a reading room for rare map research, a world globe three feet in diameter, and a Kids Map Club with map puzzles.
3. The Guild of Boston Artists
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
4. Gibson House Museum
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4.5 based on 67 reviews
Located on historic Beacon Street, this museum is housed in a 1859 Boston brownstone with Victorian furnishings.
Reviewed By Sobieski54
While visiting a family friend living in a similar house on Beacon Street 3 blocks away, we decided to take the tour of the Gibson House. It was interesting for us to compare the two 1890's homes, my friends house with modern plumbing, electricity, and newer bathroom and kitchen amenities, with the same size house and similar floor plan filled with all the original fixtures and furnishings. The docent was excellent, and commented that Charles Gibson, the last owner, stated that he wanted to keep the home in the original condition because people living in the 1940s were not be interested in how upper middle class Victorians lived, but folks living after the year 2000 would want to experience that moment in time.
5. Society of Arts and Crafts
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4.5 based on 4 reviews
Founded in 1897, the Society of Arts + Crafts is the nation's oldest craft nonprofit. Located in Boston's Seaport District, the Society's mission is to support the livelihoods of craft artists and advance public appreciation of contemporary craft.
6. Vose Galleries of Boston
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4.5 based on 7 reviews
Reviewed By StephenCr0ss - Dublin, Ireland
Super art gallery in a lovely old building. Note - Closed on Monday’s . Well kept location and worth a visit.
7. Galerie d'Orsay
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4.5 based on 3 reviews
Since 2000, Galerie d'Orsay has served as Boston's première resource for the finest of Master Works. Located in the heart of Boston's Back Bay, the gallery provides acquisition and collection expertise to a wide-ranging global base of discerning art collectors. The collection spans six centuries of art featuring works by preeminent old master, impressionist, modern and living artists.
8. Robert Klein Gallery
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4.0 based on 2 reviews
9. Society of Arts and Crafts
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4.0 based on 6 reviews
Reviewed By Northern_Traveler00 - Boston, United States
Read the Society was closing this week after a few years open the Seaport after many years in Back Bay so we stopped in today. Exhibits are all gone, just the shop remains. Everything was 40% off, so we bought a few gifts. Staff is friendly as ever but it was a sad visit today.
10. Krakow Witkin Gallery
Art Gallery presenting Minimal, conceptually-based and aesthetically reductivist art in all media. Est. 1983
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