Name: West End Community Clean-Up
Start: 2025-04-26
End: 2025-04-26
Location: Thoreau Path

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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 1.30pm.

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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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26Apr

West End Community Clean-Up

Thoreau Path

26Apr

The Great Abolitionist with Stephen Puleo

The West End Museum

10May

Major Taylor and Kittie Knox: Stage and Screen

The West End Museum

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On View at the Museum

An Illusion of Freedom: Boston and the Fugitive Slave Laws

An Illusion of Freedom: Boston and the Fugitive Slave Laws Open from February 27th through June 1st of 2025. This exhibit explores the documentary history of the legalization of slavery in the United States, and the creation of federal laws prioritizing the rights of slaveholders over basic human rights. Focused on the period from the…

Special Exhibit

Opens February 27, Closes May 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…

Permanent Exhibit

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Immigrant Neighborhood Immigration Social & Religious Institutions West Boston

A black and white photograph of the inside of a shul, with interior decorations, men standing in suits and hats, and a sign that reads: "built by Sam Katz 1920."

The Rise and Fall of Jewish Life in the West End

At its peak, the vibrant West End neighborhood was home to approximately 40-45 synagogues, reflecting the thriving Jewish community that once defined the area. Today, only the Boston Synagogue remains as the sole continuously-operating Jewish house of worship in the neighborhood.

A black and white photograph of a Black woman holding a bicycle.

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West End Community Clean-Up

The Great Abolitionist with Stephen Puleo

Major Taylor and Kittie Knox: Stage and Screen

On View at the Museum

An Illusion of Freedom: Boston and the Fugitive Slave Laws

Rise, Fall, Rebirth: Stories of the West End

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West End Women: A Self-Guided Walking Tour

Revisiting Joseph Caruso’s “The Priest” & the West End’s Sicilian Immigrant Community

Victory Village: The Story of the South End’s Villa Victoria

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