Museums

The following organizations serve as cultural and scientific repositories and exhibition and activity centers, some geared specifically for children.

Note: Career Services Office offers no endorsement of and assumes no liability for the currency, accuracy, or availability of any information on these sites.

Bay Area Discovery Museum, San Francisco, CA
Engages, delights and educates children through exploration of and connection with the local environment and the diverse communities that live here.

Boston Children's Museum (BCM), Boston, MA
Helps children understand and enjoy the world in which they live with objects, exhibits and activities.

Children's Museum of New Hampshire, Dover, NH
Runs the imagination wild, soaring into space, diving into the sea and traveling the globe through the magic of masks, piecing together human skeletons or measuring earthquakes.

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Exhibits, collects and preserves works by living New England Artists; features public sculpture park and non-degree studio art program.

EcoTarium, Worcester, MA
As a museum of science and nature, contributes to a better world by inspiring a passion for science and nature through discovery.

Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Offers a collage of 650 science, art and human perception exhibits, promoting the museum as an educational resource.

Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), Cambridge, MA
Exhibits a range of arts in three venues, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Fogg Art Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
Opens the only in-home private art collection created by one individual to the public.

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA
Serves as one of ten presidential libraries managed by the National Archives and Records Administration of the US government.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), Boston, MA
As a comprehensive art museum, presents eighteen temporary exhibitions and collection rotations annually, educational activities, lectures, films, concerts and family programs.

Museum of Children's Art, San Francisco, CA
Ensures that the arts are a fundamental part of the lives of all children.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
Holds over 100,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs and design objects, 14,000 films, and four million film stills.

Museum of Science, Boston, MA
Offers hands-on approach to science, attracting 1.6M visitors annually.

National Building Museum, Washington, DC
Prides itself as being one of the world’s most prominent and vital venues for informed, reasoned debate about the built environment and its impact on people’s lives.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Preserves, collects, exhibits and fosters the understanding of works of art at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards.

Octagon Museum, The, Washington, DC
Helps people understand the importance of architecture in their lives.

Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA
Recreates the daily work activities and community celebrations of a rural 19th-century town in authentic, living history, fashion.

Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), Salem, MA
Collects early Asian and American art, marine art, folk art, and natural history photographs.

Plimouth Plantation, Plymouth, MA
As a bicultural museum, offers powerful personal encounters with history built on thorough research about the Wampanoag and the Colonial English community in the 1600s.

Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
Presents films, music, theater, lectures and comprehensive collections of art from the Himalayas.

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Offers the world's largest complex of museums.

Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, MA
Preserves, interprets and collects buildings, landscapes and objects reflecting New England life from the 17th century to the present.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Documents, studies and interprets Holocaust history and memorializes the lives lost during that time.

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Houses more than 35,000 works of art representing more than 50 centuries of creative spirit.