News – The West End Museum

West End Museum Hosts Annual Italian Heritage Month Celebration: Features Italian Photography Exhibit, Honoree Night & Film Series

By The West End Museum September 10, 2015

West End Museum Hosts Annual Italian Heritage Month Celebration: Features Italian Photography Exhibit, Honoree Night & Film Series Boston, MA—The West End Museum will host events celebrating Italian Heritage Month in October for the sixth consecutive year. Prior to the demolition of Boston’s Old West End during the “urban renewal” of the 1950s, many Italian-American…

Life On The Corner: The West End, Part 1

By The West End Museum September 9, 2015

Life On The Corner: The West End, Part 1North End Waterfront There are still a few of us left who remember when the West End was demolished and replaced with Charles River Park. It’s a sad story and one that has always been of particular interest to me because my wife was born there and…

Boston Redevelopment Authority to Partner with West End Museum on New Exhibition

By The West End Museum September 9, 2015

Boston Redevelopment Authority to Partner with West End Museum on New ExhibitionBoston Magazine The Boston Redevelopment Authority is making nice with the neighborhood it once used its power to demolish, in an effort to extend that power another 10 years. The BRA is partnering with the West End Museum on a new exhibition, titled “Dewey Defeats…

New Photography Exhibit Captures Italy’s Beauty & Mystery

By The West End Museum August 28, 2015

New Photography Exhibit Captures Italy’s Beauty & MysteryPost-Gazette This fall, The West End Museum will host a new photography exhibit that celebrates the beauty and mystery of Italy in its Members’ Gallery. Indelebile Italia is part of the Museum’s annual commemoration of Italian Heritage Month in October. The exhibit runs from September 22nd through November…

New Photography Exhibit Captures Italy’s Beauty and Mystery

By The West End Museum August 28, 2015

New Photography Exhibit Captures Italy’s Beauty and MysteryBeacon Hill Times This fall, The West End Museum will host a new photography exhibit in its Members’ Gallery that celebrates the beauty and mystery of Italy. “Indelebile Italia” is part of the museum’s annual commemoration of Italian Heritage Month in October. The exhibit runs from Sept. 22…

BNN News Interviews Bill Kuttner, The West End Museum

By The West End Museum August 18, 2015

BNN News Interviews Bill Kuttner, The West End MuseumBNN

New Photography Exhibit Captures Italy’s Beauty & Mystery: Part of West End Museum’s Annual Italian Heritage Month Celebration

By The West End Museum August 18, 2015

New Photography Exhibit Captures Italy’s Beauty & Mystery: Part of West End Museum’s Annual Italian Heritage Month Celebration Boston, MA—This fall, The West End Museum will host a new photography exhibit in its Members’ Gallery that celebrates the beauty and mystery of Italy. Indelebile Italia is part of the Museum’s annual commemoration of Italian Heritage…

Boston’s last tenement an island awash in modernity

By The West End Museum August 15, 2015

Boston’s last tenement an island awash in modernityBoston Globe Once it was part of an unbroken chain, a row of 30 brick walk-ups along the east side of Lowell Street from Causeway to Minot, a matching row behind it, another across the street. There were hundreds like it back then, crammed into the immigrant neighborhood…

New Exhibit Reveals Urban Renewal Origin Story: Recounts Impact of Truman’s Housing Act on Boston’s West End

By The West End Museum August 12, 2015

New Exhibit Reveals Urban Renewal Origin Story: Recounts Impact of Truman’s Housing Act on Boston’s West End Boston, MA—With the modern-day 24-hour news cycle, it’s hard to believe that we once relied on daily newspapers to deliver word of current events. But so it was in 1948, when one of the most infamous—and totally inaccurate—headlines…

Tide Power in Colonial Boston

By The West End Museum July 16, 2015

Tide Power in Colonial BostonThe Bay State Banner To fuel mills for producing flour, fabric, lumber and even chocolate, innovators in colonial Boston turned to the power of the tides. From through September 19, a new exhibit in the Members’ Gallery of The West End Museum…