Name: For the Love of Spock Film Screening
Start: 2024-11-24
End: 2024-11-24
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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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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For the Love of Spock Film Screening

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Honoree Night & Silent Auction

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On View at the Museum

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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…

Special Exhibit

Closes February 2nd, 2025

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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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City Planning Immigrant Neighborhood Neighborhood Life New Boston

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Rid of the Grid: The Destructive Legacy of Superblocks in Urban Renewal

In the 20th century, the superblock concept emerged from modernist planning principles as an alternative to the traditional grid. These superblocks, while theoretically promising a more ordered and healthy urban environment, proved destructive when implemented through America’s urban renewal programs, including in Boston’s West End.

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Rid of the Grid: The Destructive Legacy of Superblocks in Urban Renewal

Freedom Seekers at the Leverett Street Jail: Polly Ann Bates, Eliza Small, and George Latimer

Claudia Kelty & Stephen Edgell: Photographers of the West End’s Demolition, Part II

Charles Frani: Photographers of the West End’s Demolition, Part I

Faces & Places: LGBTQ+ History in the West End

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