Events

Join the Jamaica Plain Historical Society to explore a fascinating industrial area at the geographic heart of Boston that includes 19th-century tannery and brewery buildings, the homes of early German settlers, and today’s Boston Beer Company, the brewers of Samuel Adams. In the 1970s, a coalition of community groups joined together to block construction of the Southwest Expressway through JP and other Boston neighborhoods. Today, the Southwest Corridor Park that runs through the Stony Brook neighborhood stands as a testament…

Virtue was a perennial theme of premodern art and literature, and Russia was no exception in this regard. This talk discusses the legacy of the cardinal virtues in early Russian mural painting and literature. Building on the classical and Byzantine tradition, Russian painters exalted the life of virtue in the belief that Russia would be led to prosperity. Dr. Justin Willson, lecturer in Medieval and Byzantine Art at Princeton University, received his PhD in January 2021 from Princeton where he…

Drop in to feed your creativity with a new craft each month, free with museum admission. September’s craft of the month is Origami Bookmarks! Drop in anytime between 1:00-3:00 pm for a fun, easy craft! We provide instructions and all the materials.

Mass Audubon’s Boston Nature Center will host a free outdoor release screening of Carolyn Shadid Lewis' film, "InterGeneration" on September 11th at 7pm. Q&A with participants to follow at 8pm. The event is free but requires registration. In the event of rain, the screening will be rescheduled for September 12th. Register Here View the trailer About the Film Beginning with an ancient Wampanoag myth that accounts for our Boston Harbor landscape, a group of Boston teens and elders take the…

We are thrilled to announce HerbFest, presented by Lexington Historical Society and Lexington Field & Garden Club! Scheduled for Sunday, September 12, rain or shine, from noon to 4 PM, this celebratory event will include garden tours at our three historic sites, Buckman Tavern, Munroe Tavern, and Hancock-Clarke House, as well as herb-related demonstrations, crafts, refreshments, and sales at each site. At 2:30 PM, join us as we dedicate the newly-installed Helen Noyes Webster and Mary Milligan Memorial Herb Garden at Buckman. Originally…

Take your research skills to the next level! With the sheer number of online resources at your fingertips, it's easy to dive into your family history research without any formal training as a genealogist. Certainly, you'll learn along the way, and devise your own methods, but it's also easy to become overwhelmed and form bad habits. Whether you are new to genealogy, want to refresh your skills, or learn best practices, this course will set you on the right path…

At the height of the Holocaust, twenty-three young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp—mainly Jewish women and girls—were selected to design, cut, and sew clothes for elite Nazi women in a dedicated fashion workshop. This workshop—called the Upper Tailoring Studio—was established by Hedwig Höss, the camp commandant’s wife, and patronized by the wives of SS guards and officers. The women hoped that the work of producing high-quality garments for SS social functions in Auschwitz and for the women of…

Lunch & Learn: Stress Management We all have stress in our lives. Why are some of us less stressed than others? It is most likely due to the way they manage their lives. Your ability to cope with your stress is both an individual journey and a learned skill. Bring a bagged lunch and join us at the Museum for a Lunch & Learn with Eileen Crochiere, a skilled trainer and business consultant who has presented this seminar to tens…

Inside Chinatown features photography by eleven Chinatown community members who used photography to not only share the experiences, challenges, and successes found in their community, but also to author their own history of what it means to work and live in Boston's Chinatown. The exhibition is a culmination of six months of coursework where participants K.C., Qianying Guan, B.K., Barney Ko, Yingyan Liang, Kim Sit, Angela Soo Hoo, Heman Tang, Justine Wang, and Warren Wong learned about the neighborhood's history…

"F/V Innovation" is a new exhibit at the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center that explores the evolution of vessels and gear and pays tribute to individuals whose innovations propelled the commercial fishing industry into the modern era. The Center is open Thursday - Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Center is wheelchair accessible with free off-street parking.

During the 19th century, the United States expanded dramatically westward. Immigrant settlers rapidly spread across the continent and transformed it, often through violent or deceptive means, from ancestral Native lands and borderlands teeming with diverse communities to landscapes that fueled the rise of industrialized cities. Historical maps, images and related objects tell the story of the sweeping changes made to the physical, cultural, and political landscape. Moving beyond the mythologized American frontier, this map exhibition explores the complexity of factors…