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What to Do in Boston - Visit Museums For Free!
By:Susan Vik

Are you wondering what to do in Boston? You'll find dozens of wonderful attractions and activities - historic sites to explore, sports to watch or do, gorgeous Victorian neighborhoods to visit, more shop-until-you-drop possibilities than you can count, and delicious restaurants to try. Boston's 30+ museums are part of the city's rich treasure. Visiting them can become expensive - some of them have high admission fees! But you can also visit several of the biggest and best for free, or almost free.

Adults can enjoy the world-class art collections in Boston's magnificent Museum of Fine Arts (465 Huntington Avenue, Fenway neighborhood of Boston) for free every Wednesday from 4:00pm - 9:45 pm. Children 7-17 enter for free on weekdays after 3pm and all day on weekends and school holidays, while the under 7 crowd always gets in for free.

You can spend many fascinating hours examining mummies in the Egyptian rooms, marveling at lush fabrics and fashion design among the textile collections, gazing at hundreds of European masterpieces, and discovering treasures in the Asian art galleries. The MFA also has a large, excellent museum store, 2 restaurants, and a casual cafe.

If you have young children, they'll love the Boston Children's Museum (300 Congress Street, about an 8 minute walk from South Station), located in the South Boston Seaport District. Admission on Friday nights between 5pm - 9pm drops to $1.

If you can, get to the museum right at 5pm because your children will want to spend as many hours as possible exploring the hands-on interactive exhibits and crawling through the giant tubular maze. You'll also find an excellent museum store where you can spend all of the money that you saved on the almost-free admission.

Children and adults will find plenty of fascinating exhibits at Harvard's Museum of Natural History (26 Oxford St., Cambridge). Massachusetts residents can enter for free every Sunday from 9am - noon, and on Wednesdays from 3pm - 5pm from September through May. Perhaps the most famous items here are the incredibly beautiful and life-like glass flowers created in the 19th century as a teaching tool about plants.

You'll also enjoy the dazzling collection of gems and minerals. Especially fascinating are the meteorites from outer space. Last but not least are the dinosaur fossils and skeletons, including a 42-foot long Kronosaurus from roughly 120 million years ago.

With all of these terrific museums, plus almost 30 more, you don't need to wonder what to do in Boston - you'd need at least a month here to visit all of them. If the free admission times work for you, you'll have the advantage of saving some money while having a wonderful experience. But even if the times don't work, a visit to these museums is well worth the price of admission.

Susan provides even more suggestions about what to do in Boston for free as well as information about other Boston tourism attractions, historic sites, restaurants, hotels, neighborhoods, shopping, and fun things to do in http://www.Boston-Discovery-Guide.com






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