Boston museums events

Art in the Streets: European Posters

Tuesday, May 21 10:00a

This show may be small (41 items) but it's choice -- and extremely charming. Artists with work on display include Bennard, Kandinsky, Schiele, and El Lissitzky. - Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

Watson Adventures’ Wizard School Scavenger Hunt

Saturday, Jun 1 1:00p

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Join a unique scavenger hunt for Harry Potter Fans at the Museum of Fine Arts! Search for art that echoes characters, and enchanted objects in the Harry Potter books and movies...

Boston Children's Chorus 10th Anniversary Concert

Friday, May 31 7:30p

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

To celebrate their 10th anniversary, the BCC presents an evening of contemporary choral music, featuring a new work by composer Daniel Bernard Roumain.

Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane, Master Drawings From the Casa Buonarroti

Tuesday, May 21 10:00a

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Twenty-six Michelangelow drawings from his own collection, on loan from the museum in Florence that was once his home...

Samurai! Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection

Tuesday, May 21 10:00a

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Japanese armor worn by shoguns, or warlords, from the 12th to the 19th centuries, from a respected Texan private collection...

MIT Museum Opens New Exhibit - Hidden Heroes: The Genius of Everyday Things

Tuesday, May 21 10:00a

MIT Museum, Cambridge

MIT Museum opens its newest exhibition, Hidden Heroes: The Genius of Everyday Things...

MFA First Fridays

Friday, Jun 7 6:00p

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Put some culture into your new year at this monthly event featuring fine art, music, signature cocktails, and tapas. Tunes for the January edition will be provided by DJ Holtie...

Historic New England Open House

Saturday, Jun 1 11:00a

Historic New England Properties, Boston

Thirty-two of the region’s finest historic properties are open free to the public during Historic New England’s open house. Open the door to four centuries of New England home and family life...

Whispers of Revolution

Tuesday, Jul 2 12:00p

Old South Meeting House, Boston

The American Revolution was planned in secrecy in backrooms, in taverns and in storerooms...

Morningstar Access

Tuesday, Jun 11 8:00a

Boston Children's Museum, Boston

The Morningstar Access program - Boston Children's Museum opens the door at 8 am for children with special needs/medical needs, before we open to the public at 10 am...

New Blue and White

Tuesday, May 21 10:00a

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A brilliant, out-of-the-box show looking at the dynamic responses of contemporary artists across the world to the tradition of blue and white porcelain. - Sebastian Smee, Globe Staff

Summer Solstice: Night at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

Friday, Jun 21 5:00p

Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge

Celebrate the longest day of the year with live music, solar telescope viewing from the roof of the Science Center, food trucks, hands-on activities on the new Harvard Plaza, and free admission to ...

Colonial Games

Wednesday, Jul 3 11:00a

Old South Meeting House, Boston

Try your hand at games from the bygone days, from "Tabletop Ninepins" to "Fox and Geese." Make your own whirligig or challenge an adult to a round of "Nine Men's Morris...

"Tiny Taxonomy: Alpinum"

Tuesday, May 21 11:00a

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

The 25 species of mountain wildflowers and alpine perennials on view at "Tiny Taxonomy: Alpinum" have an "essential intelligence" of being able to adapt by growing very small, settling low to the g...