Museum of Science, Boston
Science Museum · Boston, Massachusetts
A science museum straddling the Charles River Dam between Boston and Cambridge, descended from the Boston Society of Natural History of 1830, which makes it one of the oldest institutions of its kind in the country. Its signature is the Theater of Electricity, built around the largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator in the world — the machine Robert Van de Graaff himself built at MIT — which is fired several times a day and throws bolts of artificial lightning across a steel cage while an audience sits underneath it.
1 Museum of Science Driveway, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114, United States
Open daily with extended summer hours; closed Thanksgiving and Christmas. BOOK TIMED EXHIBIT-HALL TICKETS ONLINE — the museum sells out on wet weekends and in school holidays. The planetarium and Omni Theater are separate tickets with their own showtimes. Daily live-presentation schedule posted at the entrance. Green Line to Science Park.
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