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Fenway Park – Everyone in the family will enjoy a baseball game at Fenway Park, an old-fashioned stadium and home of the Red Sox. Babe Ruth pitched winning games for the Red Sox at Fenway Park, but between 1816 and 2004, the Red Sox didn’t win a World Series.
The stadium has many quirky features, including a high green wall (with a manual scoreboard) that often obstructs home runs. Kids can wear their own Red Sox shirts to get into the spirit of the game – click here for the schedule. |
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Museum of Fine Arts – The Museum of Fine Arts is a “biggie,” so start your visit early in the day. Make a beeline for the Impressionist Room where you’ll see Renoir’s Dance at Bougival and girls picking flowers in a meadow, and paintings by Gaugin, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Money and Cassatt, plus Degas’ bronze sculpture of a ballet dancer. Choose a culture to explore in different galleries – Egyptian, Roman, Greek, arts of Africa and Oceania. And don’t miss paintings by American artists, especially Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley – a cabin boy goes overboard and a big shark opens wide to take a bite.
Tip: Admission is included in the Go BostonCard. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - A visit to the Gardner Museum is to step inside Mrs. Gardners’s home, a Venetian-style palazzo filled with art works. The ground-floor courtyard with fountains and tropical plants is especially welcome in winter. Upstairs, there are tapestries of lords and ladies, French stained glass windows, an exquisite Christ Child in the Temple by Giotto, and Self-Portrait by Rembrandt. It’s a unique museum environment, but the Gardener isn’t a comfortable museum for small children, and even with older kids you'll want to find out in advance what to see, as none of the artworks are labeled. Click here for a guide to the galleries. |
