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The Boston Museum will showcase Boston's rich history in a contemporary context and serve as a gateway to the diverse educational resources throughout the city.
 
Despite Boston's stature as one of the nation's most historically significant and influential cities, it remains a challenge for educators and students to grasp or even glimpse the scope of Boston's legacy.

The Boston Museum will broaden and deepen the appreciation of Boston as a "living classroom" and campus for thematic learning through partnerships with other historic sites and cultural institutions, sharing best practices and working in concert to create new programming and enrichment activities for educators and students throughout the region. We will also reach out to national audiences through extensive use of electronic links and new media technology.

Text book publishers predict the disappearance of the printed text, perhaps within a decade. The Boston Museum will develop new ways of teaching about America's heritage through web-based curricula, virtual field trips, and other means.

The Boston Museum will be a transformative educational experience for learners of all ages and styles. Its galleries will use a wide variety of approaches aimed at engaging families, school children and adults at all stages of life. Most importantly, the stories visitors encounter will have personal resonance, whether of ancestors arriving on Long Wharf or their own physical relationship to the place of Boston.

EDUCATION NEWS:

Boston Museum Probes School Desegregation History

In August 2009, The Boston Museum in partnership with Facing History & Ourselves, and Mass 2020, the Expanded Learning Time Initiative, sponsored a summer institute for Boston area teachers focused on the history of school desegregation in Boston. more

Boston Teachers Uncover City History

In 2007, the Boston Museum launched its work in education with the first of a series of summer institutes for teachers. (More about the 2007 institute.)

A second institute, tied to the "People of the Bay" gallery theme and focused on the region's cultural geography, took place in August 2008.

Boston Museum and MBTA create "On Track with Boston History" subway campaign

8th grade “history hounds” from the Umana Middle School Academy in East Boston joined MBTA General Manager Daniel A. Grabauskas, State Transportation Secretary Bernard Cohen and Boston Museum CEO Frank Keefe in unveiling a new MBTA public service campaign designed to help summer tourists identify “hidden history” along the Blue Line.