Name: Boston Trivia Night
Start: 2025-02-18
End: 2025-02-18
Location: Causeway Boston

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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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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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18Feb

Sankofa: A Journey Through the African Diaspora Experience

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27Feb

An Illusion of Freedom: Boston and the Fugitive Slave Laws — Reception

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On View at the Museum

photograph of a man in a business suit posing for a photograph whole sitting in a chair.

Jimbo Jim “Jimbo” Campano: Hero of the West End, running through the fall and winter of 2024, is a tribute to the life of Jim Campano, the chief founder of The West End Museum. This special exhibit follows Jim’s journey that started as a young boy living with his large Italian-Lithuanian family on Poplar Street…

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Closes February 2nd, 2025

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 West End Museum’s permanent exhibit, Rise, Fall, Rebirth: Stories of the West End, explores 400 years of history and urban development in the City of Boston through the use of interactive digital media, film, artifacts, and archival material. We want you to feel the West End…

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Business Immigrant Neighborhood Modern Neighborhood Life

A black and white photograph of a street, with early 20th-century cars going down it. A short neoclassical firehouse is on the right, and a larger white building on the left.

Bowdoin Square, Part 2: 20th & 21st Centuries

Bowdoin Square has gone through many phases, including rapid development, growing population, changing fortunes, urban renewal, and attempts at revitalization. Today the name survives mainly in the name of an MBTA station, but examination of Bowdoin Square provides insight into two and a half centuries of Boston history. This article, the second part of two, covers the history of the square in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Boston Trivia Night

Sankofa: A Journey Through the African Diaspora Experience

An Illusion of Freedom: Boston and the Fugitive Slave Laws — Reception

On View at the Museum

Jimbo

Rise, Fall, Rebirth: Stories of the West End

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Bowdoin Square, Part 2: 20th & 21st Centuries

Bowdoin Square, Part 1: 18th & 19th Centuries

Samuel and George Parkman: A Powerful West End Real Estate Family

The Legend of Abraham ‘Al’ Tabachnik: A Voice That Echoed Through the West End’s Streets

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