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Boston Children's Museum

Boston Children's Museum
Boston Children's Museum
Boston Children's Museum is located in Boston
Boston Children's Museum
Location in Boston
Former name The Children's Museum of Boston
Established 1913 (1913)
Location 308 Congress Street
Boston, MA 02210
Coordinates 42°21′07″N 71°02′58″W / 42.351867°N 71.049579°W / 42.351867; -71.049579
Type Children's museum
Accreditation American Alliance of Museums
President Carole Charnow
Public transit access
  Red Line

South Station Handicapped/disabled access

Courthouse Station Handicapped/disabled access

MBTA boat routes F1, F2, F2H
Website bostonchildrensmuseum.org

South Station Handicapped/disabled access

Courthouse Station Handicapped/disabled access

Boston Children's Museum is a children's museum in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the education of children. Located on Children's Wharf along the Fort Point Channel, Boston Children's Museum is the second oldest children's museum in the United States. It contains many activities meant to both amuse and educate young children.

The idea for a children’s museum in Boston developed in 1909 when several local science teachers founded the Science Teacher’s Bureau. One of the Bureau’s main goals was to create a museum:

"it is planned to inaugurate at the same place, a Museum, local in its nature and to contain besides the natural objects, books, pictures, charts, lantern slides, etc., whatever else is helpful in the science work of the Grammar, High and Normal Schools. The specimens are to be attractively arranged and classified and the room open daily to children or anyone interested in such work."

The Women’s Education Association also helped the Science Teacher’s Bureau with the planning for the children’s museum in Boston. After four years of planning, The Children’s Museum officially opened on August 1, 1913, at the Pinebank Mansion located along Jamaica Pond in Olmsted Park in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. It is the second oldest children's museum in the United States. The first museum contained two cases: one devoted to birds and the other to minerals and shells. The exhibits were kept at children’s eye level, used simple language, and complemented the lessons taught in school.George Hunt Barton served as the museum’s first president.


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