Boston museums: 8 underappreciated ones to visit

Boston is home to some of the world’s most notable museums. But the city also hosts some lesser-known institutions of collective preservation, including one of the oldest military museums on the continent and one of the nation’s most prominent repositories of African-American history.

This map pinpoints these and others, many of them free and all of them perfect for fall afternoons and weekends.

Of course, some might argue that entire Boston neighborhoods are veritable museums. That’s fine, too.