The West End Museum Photo Contest
Do you have a great photo of the Otis House? Ether Dome? The Longfellow Bridge? Or maybe another wonderful West End scene? Introducing the West End Museum Photo Contest! As part of our new show…
Life in the West End 1947-1953: the Photography of Jules Aarons
Tuesday April 16 – Saturday August 3, 2013 at The West End Museum Cost: FREE Jules Aarons is an important figure in documenting the West End of Boston before the ravages of Urban Renewal. His…
Members’ gallery exhibition: “Street Names: Lost and Found”
Friday, March 1 – Saturday April 27, 2013 at The West End Museum Cost: FREE During Urban Renewal, the streets of the West End were reconfigured. If you compare a 1938 map with a current…
The Last Tenement
“The Last Tenement” exhibition, originally set up in 1992 at the Old State House by the Bostonian Society through a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities and relocated to the West End Museum…
The Old West End
The West End Museum is a neighborhood museum dedicated to the collection, preservation and interpretation of the history and culture of the West End of Boston.
The history of the West End is one of a largely immigrant neighborhood displaced or destroyed by ‘Urban Renewal‘ in a campaign that saw a third of Boston’s downtown demolished between 1958 and 1960, but it’s also the history of a diverse community that produced several influential people, boasted a unique culture and included many places of historical significance.
Our mission is not only to preserve this history for old West Enders and their families, but to invite members of the wider community to engage with this history, to learn from it and explore the wider culture and meaning of ‘The Greatest Neighborhood This Side of Heaven’.
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American Photography: A Century of Images
Wednesday, July 23 6:30pm to 9:30 pm At The West End Museum American Photography captures the images of a century of change and the role the camera has played both in creating and documenting it. Dramatic and intimate stories trace photography’s profound effect on American…
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
Wednesday, July Seventeenth 6:30pm to 7:30 pm At The West End Museum Photographer, painter, filmmaker, poet, essayist, philosopher Man Ray was an extraordinary man with extraordinary talents. One of the primary leaders of the American modernist movement, he single-handedly pioneered some of the 20th…
The Photography Film Series
Inspired by the Jules Aarons exhibition, we present a series of inspirational photographers’ biographies. American Masters- Alfred Steiglitz:The Elegant Eye Tuesday, April 30th, 2013 at 6:30-8pm This event has been postponed – please watch this space for updates at The West End Museum American Masters®…
Walking Tour: Lost Boston: The Vanished West End
Available dates: Saturday July 20th at 10am-11:30am Saturday August 24th at 10am-11:30am Meet at The West End Museum Group limit: 20 Participants Cost: $15 non-members/$7 members This tour will introduce attendees to the story of Boston’s lost neighborhood, The West End. In 1959 an entire…
Archival Talk: “Images from the West End Museum”
Wednesday, July Tenth 6:30pm to 8:00pm At The West End Museum The museum’s archive committee a slideshow of hundreds of West End photographs taken prior to urban renewal, as well as during its destruction. Cost: $10 Non-members/$5 Members Pre-registration is required Register for this event…
