Category: Events (Page 7 of 24)

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 first week of August:

Monday, August 1:

• Harvard Museum of Natural History Summer Science Week: Animal Naturalists
• Harvard Art Museums Art Study Center Open Hours

Tuesday, August 2:

• Harvard Museum of Natural History Summer Science Week: Animal Naturalists
• Mary Baker Eddy Library One World, 2016
• Harvard Art Museums Gallery Talk: Flowers of Evil
• Boston Athenaeum Preschool Story Time
• Historic New England Twilight Talks: Boston: A Center for the 19th Century Organ Industry

Wednesday, August 3:

• Harvard Museum of Natural History Summer Science Week: Animal Naturalists
• Boston Athenaeum Stories & Crafts
• Historic New England Weeding Wednesday at the Lyman Estate

Thursday, August 4:

• Boston Children’s Museum Everybody Plays
• MFA Shakespeare in the Courtyard: Cymbeline
• Museum of Science Book Club for the Curious
• Namaste at the ICA
• ICA Harborwalk Sounds: Sudacas
• Harvard Museum of Natural History Summer Science Week: Animal Naturalists
• Harvard Art Museums Gallery Talk: Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt
• Boston Athenaeum Stories, Songs & Activities
• Historic New England The Search for John Paul Jones

Friday, August 5:

• Boston Children’s Museum Everybody Plays
• Boston Children’s Museum We DOKI DOKI!
• MFA First Fridays
• Museum of Science Astronomy After Hours
• ICA First Fridays: White Hot [Vol. 3]
• Harvard Museum of Natural History Free Fun Fridays
• Harvard Museum of Natural History Summer Science Week: Animal Naturalists
• Old State House Free Fun Fridays

Saturday, August 6:

• ICA Lisa Monahan Trunk Show
• ISGM Saturday Open Studio: Bon Voyage
• The Paul Revere House John Adams: The Colossus of Independence
• Mary Baker Eddy Library First Saturdays
• Boston Athenaeum Family Story Time
• Historic New England Beacon Hill Walking Tour
• Historic New England Nooks and Crannies
• Historic New England Wicket Good Fun at Merwin House
• Historic New England Old House Doctor

Sunday, July 7:

• Namaste at the ICA: Summer Sunday Edition
• ISGM Borromeo String Quartet
• Harvard Art Museums Sensory Ethnography Lab: Experiments with Cinema

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 July:

Friday, July 1:

• Free Fun Friday at the Boston Children’s Museum
• MFA First Fridays
• Museum of Science Astronomy After Hours
• USS Constitution Museum Chipping Away!
• MIT Museum Summer Youth Gamelan Workshop Showcase
• King Street Walking Tour

Saturday, July 2:

• Old Sturbridge Village Independence Weekend Celebration
• ISGM Polly Thayer Starr Artist Series: Telling Tales
• USS Constitution Museum Chipping Away!
• Historic New England Beacon Hill Walking Tour

Sunday, July 3:

• Namaste at the ICA
• Boston By Foot Ben Franklin: Son of Boston Tour
• Old Sturbridge Village Independence Weekend Celebration
• USS Constitution Museum Chipping Away!
• Historic New England Fireworks Over Gloucester Harbor
• Historic New England Harborfest: Beacon Hill Treasures Walking Tour

Monday, July 4:

• Old Sturbridge Village Independence Weekend Celebration
• USS Constitution Museum Chipping Away!
• Annual Reading of Declaration of Independence
• Historic New England Celebrate Independence Day at Otis House
• Historic New England Harborfest: Beacon Hill Treasures Walking Tour

Tuesday, July 5:

• Harvard Art Museums Gallery Talk: Ancient Mummy Portraits
• Boston Children’s Museum Fishing 101
• Mary Baker Eddy Library Storytime at the Library
• Historic New England Harborfest: Beacon Hill Treasures Walking Tour

Wednesday, July 6:

• Boston Children’s Museum Baseball Day
• Historic New England Weeding Wednesday at the Lyman Estate

Thursday, July 7:

• Harvard Art Museums Gallery Talk: Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt
• Historic New England Movies at the Mansion, Minions

Friday, July 8:

• MFA Art Making: Breathing Blossoms
• MFA Free Fun Friday
• MFA Art Making: Enchanting Chandeliers
• MFA Art Making: Drawing in the Galleries
• Museum of Science Astronomy After Hours
• MIT Museum Teen Paper Sliceform Workshop

Saturday, July 9:

• Harvard Museum of Natural History: Exploring Science Together: Bugs!
• ISGM Saturday Open Studio: Bon Voyage

Sunday, July 10:

• Harvard Art Museums Sensory Ethnography Lab: Experiments with Cinema
• Namaste at the ICA
• Historic New England Vintage Base Ball Triple-Header Game

Monday, July 11:

• Harvard Art Museums Presence and Presencing: Conserving and Curating Indigenous Art from Australia

Tuesday, July 12:

• Harvard Art Museums Gallery Talk: Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt
• Mary Baker Eddy Library One World, 2016
• Historic New England Preservation and Innovation: Striking the Balance

Thursday, July 14:

• Harvard Art Museums Gallery Talk: Looking Inside and Out—Prehistoric Pottery from Northwest China
• Museum of Science Book Club for the Curious
• ISGM Neighborhood Nights
• Historic New England Movies at the Mansion, The Sandlot

Friday, July 15

• Boston Children’s Museum Critter Day: Caterpillar Lab
• Museum of African American History Film Screening: Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History
• Museum of Science Astronomy After Hours
• Historic New England Evening at Gropius
• Historic New England Double Up on Ceramics

Saturday, July 16:

• ISGM Saturday Open Studio: Bon Voyage
• Historic New England Nooks and Crannies

Sunday, July 17:

• Harvard Art Museums Sensory Ethnography Lab: Experiments with Cinema
• Namaste at the ICA
• USS Constitution Museum Boston Area Chantey & Maritime Sing
• Historic New England Codman Estate Antique Auto and Classic Car Show

Tuesday, July 19:

• Harvard Art Museums Gallery Talk: Max Pechstein’s Stained Glass Window

Wednesday, July 20:

• Harvard Semitic Museum Free Tour: The Houses of Ancient Israel

Thursday, July 21:

• Harvard Art Museums Gallery Talk: Activation of Moholy-Nagy’s Light Prop for an Electric Stage
• ISGM Third Thursdays: Abroad
• Historic New England Movies at the Mansion, Beetlejuice

Friday, July 22:

• Harvard Museum of Natural History: Glass Flowers Soirée
• Museum of Science Astronomy After Hours
• Historic New England In Their Own Words: Henry Sleeper and Halfdan Hanson Build Beauport, 10:30 am
• Historic New England In Their Own Words: Henry Sleeper and Halfdan Hanson Build Beauport, 2:30 pm

Saturday, July 23:

• ICA Maria Hassabi Open Rehearsal for Staged
• Boston Children’s Museum Mini Maker Faire
• ISGM Saturday Open Studio: Bon Voyage

Sunday, July 24:

• Harvard Art Museums Sensory Ethnography Lab: Experiments with Cinema
• ICA Maria Hassabi Open Rehearsal for Staged
• MIT Museum Special Idea Hub Session

Tuesday, July 26:

• Harvard Art Museums Gallery Talk: Prints and Drawings in the Spanish Golden Age
• Historic New England The Two Henrys: Architects H.H. Richardson and Henry Hartwell

Wednesday, July 27:

• Harvard Museums of Science & Culture: The Real World of Minecraft Minerals
• Historic New England Weeding Wednesday at Cogswell’s Grant

Thursday, July 28:

• Harvard Art Museums Gallery Talk: Flowers of Evil
• Boston Children’s Museum Film The Land
• MFA Yoga en Plein Air
• ISGM Neighborhood Nights
• Historic New England Conservation Close-Up at Beauport
• Historic New England Movies at the Mansion, Casablanca

Friday, July 29:

• Museum of Science Astronomy After Hours

Saturday, July 30:

• ICA Play Date: Family Imagination Fest
• Museum of Science Butterfly and Caterpillar Weekend
• ISGM Saturday Open Studio: Bon Voyage

Sunday, July 31:

• Harvard Art Museums Sensory Ethnography Lab: Experiments with Cinema
• Museum of Science Butterfly and Caterpillar Weekend
• ISGM Borromeo String Quartet
• Historic New England Vintage Base Ball Double-Header Game

Check out the event below from Historic New England about the history of beer brewing, complete with samples from Ipswich Ale!

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