Boston Children's Museum
Childrens Museum · Boston, Massachusetts
Founded in 1913 and therefore the second-oldest children's museum in the world, on the Fort Point Channel in a converted wool warehouse with a forty-foot wooden milk bottle standing outside it. Its most unexpected holding is a two-storey silk merchant's house from Kyoto, dismantled and shipped over as a gift from the city of Kyoto in 1979 and rebuilt inside the building — an authentic machiya that children take their shoes off to walk into.
308 Congress Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02210, United States
Open daily with seasonal hours; closed some major holidays. BOOK TIMED TICKETS ONLINE — the museum sells out at weekends, in school holidays and on wet days. $1 admission for a few hours on Friday evenings, which books out fast. Adults pay full price; under-ones free. You may bring your own food and eat it in the lunch room. Red Line to South Station, then a ten-minute walk.
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