Museum · Science Park / West End
Museum of Science
1 Science Park, Boston 02114
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Boston's big science museum sits on a dam across the Charles River, between Boston and Cambridge. Its halls mix hands-on physics, natural history, the human body and engineering, with a planetarium and a giant-dome Omni theater; a glass-walled public science forum opened in October 2026.
Permanent exhibitions
- Theater of Electricity with the giant Van de Graaff generator
- Charles Hayden Planetarium
- Mugar Omni Theater (dome cinema)
- Hall of Human Life
- Natural history halls: dinosaurs, New England habitats and live animals
- Engineering Design Workshop
- Bloomberg Public Science Common (opened October 2026)
Coming up
No dates announced yet.
