Looking for something fun and engaging to do now that summer is in full swing? Here’s a list of upcoming museum-related events to check out for the month of September:
Thursday, September 1:
Friday, September 2:
- Museum of Science | Astronomy After Hours
- Institute of Contemporary Art | First Fridays: Beach Party
- Museum of Fine Arts | First Fridays
Saturday, September 3:
- USS Constitution Museum | Fun and Games at Sea
- Historic New England | Beacon Hill Walking Tour
- Historic New England | Schooner Festival Fireworks
- Boston Children’s Museum | Zumba® Kids
Sunday, September 4:
Monday, September 5:
Tuesday, September 6:
Wednesday, September 7:
Thursday, September 8:
- Museum of Science | Book Club for the Curious
- Institute of Contemporary Art | Namaste at the ICA
- Institute of Contemporary Art | Powerful Words
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Landscape Lectures: Chris Reed
Friday, September 9:
- Museum of Science | Astronomy After Hours
- Harvard Art Museums | Film: The Destruction of Memory
- Historic New England | Nooks and Crannies at Night
- Historic New England | Leading Locally: Preservation Management Strategies That Work
Saturday, September 10:
- Historic New England | 34th Annual Codman Estate Fine Arts and Crafts Festival
- Historic New England | Vintage Base Ball Quadruple-Header Game
- Museum of Fine Arts | Namaste Saturday with TRILLFIT
Sunday, September 11:
- Institute of Contemporary Art | Gallery Talk: Marcie Begleiter on Eva Hesse
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Sunday Concert Series: A Far Cry
- Historic New England | All Around the Common
- Historic Newton | Historic Walking Tour: The Sculpture Trail at Kennard Park
Monday, September 12:
Tuesday, September 13:
- Harvard Art Museums | Materials Lab Workshop: Carbon
- Historic New England | The Mill Girls of Lowell
- Mary Baker Eddy Library | Webcast: “All that is in them, singing”: What are hymns going for?
Wednesday, September 14:
- Historic New England | Nooks and Crannies
- Historic New England | Imitation is the Best Form of Flattery: Tracing Forms and the Gropius-Breuer Legacy
Thursday, September 15:
- Museum of Science | Science Royale
- Institute of Contemporary Art | New Member Night
- Institute of Contemporary Art | The Artist’s Voice: Nicholas Nixon and Abelardo Morell
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Third Thursdays: Made by Hand
- Harvard Museum of Natural History | Why So Many Leaf Forms? Insights from Viburnum Evolution
- Harvard Art Museums | Gallery Talk: The Renovation and Expansion Project
- Old Colony History Musuem | Lecture – The Value of Old and Rare Books with Kenneth Gloss
Friday, September 16:
- Museum of Science | Astronomy After Hours
- Historic New England | Evening at Gropius
- Historic New England | Herrmann’s Royal Lipizzan Stallions at Cogswell’s Grant
- Boston Children’s Museum | Pajama Party
Saturday, September 17:
- Museum of Science | Wild Weather Weekend
- MIT Museum | Living in the Future: Where Science Fiction Meets Science Reality
- Historic New England | Herrmann’s Royal Lipizzan Stallions at Cogswell’s Grant
- Historic New England | Designing Beauport, Room by Room
- Museum of Fine Arts | mfaNOW Overnight: Launch Party
- Boston Children’s Museum | Critter Day
- Old Colony History Musuem | Liberty & Union Walking Tour
Sunday, September 18:
- Museum of Science | Wild Weather Weekend
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Sunday Concert Series: Pacifica Quartet
- USS Constitution Museum | Boston Area Chantey & Maritime Sing
- Historic New England | Herrmann’s Royal Lipizzan Stallions at Cogswell’s Grant
- Museum of Fine Arts | mfaNOW Overnight: Launch Party
- Historic Newton | Historic Walking Tour: A Stroll through 300 Years in Chestnut Hill
Monday, September 19:
Tuesday, September 20:
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Opening Celebration for Beyond Words: Italian Renaissance Books
- Mary Baker Eddy Library | Storytime at the Library
Wednesday, September 21:
- Historic New England | Weeding Wednesday at the Codman Estate
- Historic New England | Nooks and Crannies at Night
Thursday, September 22:
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Exhibition Begins—Beyond Words: Italian Renaissance Books
- Harvard Museum of Natural History | Saving Eden: A Work in Progress
- Harvard Art Museums | Lightbox Gallery Talk: The Shape of Things by Ben Rivers
- Historic New England | The Growing House: Scarcity, Nature, and Architecture in Vienna and Berlin, 1932
- Historic New England | Paint Night at the Farm
Friday, September 23:
- Museum of Science | Astronomy After Hours
- Museum of Fine Arts | Street Pianos Boston 2016: Play Me, I’m Yours
Saturday, September 24:
- Institute of Contemporary Art | Play Date: Enjoying Collecting
- Harvard Museum of Natural History | The Art of Drawing Birds
- USS Constitution Museum | Museum Day Live!
- Historic New England | Asian Art at Quincy House
- Historic New England | American Music and Harvest Festival
- Mary Baker Eddy Library | Museum Day Live!
Sunday, September 25:
- Museum of Science | Go Behind the Scenes at the Theater of Electricity
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Hands-On Horticulture Workshop: Ferns and Stone
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Sunday Concert Series: Sang-Eun Lee, cello & Chris Jeon, piano
- Historic New England | Plein Air Workshop
Monday, September 26:
- Old State House | Charter Day Lecture: Puritans at Home: A Conversation About Marriage, Love, and Family
- Harvard Art Museums | Art Study Center Open Hours
Tuesday, September 27:
- Harvard Museum of Natural History | Smashing Agassiz’s Boulder
- Historic New England | Homeschool: Play and Work
Wednesday, September 28:
Thursday, September 29:
- Old State House | Cider Celebration
- Harvard Art Museums | Gallery Talk: 18th-Century European Ceramics
- Historic New England | Henry Sleeper’s Bachelor House
- Historic Newton | History Book Club Meeting
Friday, September 30:
- Museum of Science | Astronomy After Hours
- Museum of Science | College Night
- Institute of Contemporary Art | Raphael Xavier
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Sanctuary Series: Writing on the Walls
- Harvard Art Museums | Art Study Center Seminar: The Future
- Historic New England | The Farmer’s Table
- Boston Children’s Museum | KidsJam
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