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The museum proposed to bring the region's 400-year history into focus, inspiring local residents and visitors from across the globe to explore Boston's rich heritage, historic sites and cultural attractions. A 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m 2) museum and marketplace concept was in development, with additional plans for a low-lying pedestrian ...
The Museum of Fine Arts(often abbreviated as MFA Bostonor MFA) is an art museumin Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largestart museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas.
Christian Science Plaza. Coordinates: 42.3445°N 71.0843°W. The First Church of Christ, Scientist (left), the reflecting pool, and the 26-story former administration building at 177 Huntington Avenue in Boston. The Christian Science Plaza is a 13.5-acre (5.5 ha) site on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Huntington Avenue in the Back Bay ...
Boston Society of Natural History and Rogers Building, Photographie. The Boston Society of Natural History (1830–1948) in Boston, Massachusetts, was an organization dedicated to the study and promotion of natural history. It published a scholarly journal and established a museum. In its first few decades, the society occupied several ...
The university is located at the junction of Fenway-Kenmore, Allston, and Brookline. In the Fenway-Kenmore area are the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the nightlife of Landsdowne Street as well as Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Allston has been Boston's largest bohemian neighborhood since the 1960s.
The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) is a major historical archive specializing in early American, Massachusetts, and New England history. The Massachusetts Historical Society was established in 1791 and is located at 1154 Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts, and is the oldest historical society in the United States.
The Harvard Museum of Natural History ( HMNH) is a natural history museum housed in the University Museum Building, located on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It features 16 galleries with 12,000 specimens drawn from the collections of the University's three natural history research museums: the Harvard University ...
The public Boston Museum of Natural History (founded in 1830 and renamed the New England Museum of Natural History in 1864, and the Boston Museum of Science in the mid-twentieth century), was run by the Boston Society of Natural History. It served the function of public and professional education in natural history, including ocean life ...