Name: Ghosts in the Museum & Pumpkin Paint and Sip
Start: 2024-10-17
End: 2024-10-17
Location: The West End Museum

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The West End Museum tells the story of Boston’s West End neighborhood - collecting, preserving, and sharing the history and culture of the 'Greatest Neighborhood This Side of Heaven'.

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Explore the story of a dynamic urban neighborhood — the origin of abolition, a major transportation hub, Boston’s most diverse neighborhood, and the nation’s greatest tragedy of urban renewal.

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Come by the WEM to say hello and dive into West End history! We open tomorrow at 10.30am.

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We offer a wide variety of programs from talks to musical performances. Check out what’s coming up at the museum.

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Your support insures that the legacy of the West End neighborhood can be shared in Boston and beyond for many years to come.

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Our exhibits explore the wide range of history in the West End from its origins to the present day. Check out what’s live, or look through a past exhibit, here.

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17Oct

Ghosts in the Museum & Pumpkin Paint and Sip

The West End Museum

23Oct

Murders & Mysteries: The West End’s Haunted History

The West End Museum

27Oct

Godzilla Film Screening

The West End Museum

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On View at the Museum

West End Art Show

The theme of this summer’s art competition is The West End Through My Eyes. Artists submitted works that communicated what the West End means to them individually.

Community Exhibit

Closes September 29th, 2024

A map showing 2 overlapping shorelines of Boston to illustrate the massive landfill projects between 1800 and 1900

Rise, Fall, Rebirth: Stories of the West End

Rise, Fall, Rebirth: Stories of the West End The 2024 reopening of The West End Museum (The WEM) includes a completely redesigned exhibit: Rise, Fall & Rebirth: Stories of the West End. The key features of the new exhibit are: Modularity: Space is the main gallery is allocated to cover a variety of corp topics,…

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Abolition African Americans Politics & Law West Boston

A Black man wearing a suit stands, facing the camera, with his arm rested on a column.

Robert Morris

Robert Morris (1823-1882) was a prominent civil rights leader in Boston and the United States’ second African American lawyer. He built a successful career as a lawyer handling civil, criminal, and civil rights cases, while putting his life and livelihood on the line for causes he believed in: abolition, the protection of freedom seekers, the desegregation of schools, the integration of militias, equal rights for women, and fair representation for immigrants.

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Ghosts in the Museum & Pumpkin Paint and Sip

Murders & Mysteries: The West End’s Haunted History

Godzilla Film Screening

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West End Art Show

Rise, Fall, Rebirth: Stories of the West End

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Robert Morris

Allen Street House: Early Autopsies, Morgues, and Pathology at MGH

Southworth & Hawes: Early Photography in Boston

F. Holland Day

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