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The Best Museums

  • The Concord Museum: I think of this suburban treasure as a Goldilocks museum -- it's not too big, it's not too small, it's just right. Always informative, never overwhelming, it shows and tells visitors enough about the town's history to help them make the most of a visit to this fascinating community.

  • The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: In an extremely unscientific poll of local travel experts conducted by me, this idiosyncratic museum tied for third-most-popular thing to do. The Gardner is a magnificent repository of art and nature in a building that's as impressive as anything hanging on the walls.

  • The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum: Calling a presidential library unique is both obvious and a bit of a cop-out -- of course it's unique; they're all unique. This one captures the personality of its charismatic namesake as well as the spirit that continues to make the Camelot era so compelling, even 4 decades later.

  • The Museum of Fine Arts: The phrase "one of the best in the world" starts to lose its meaning with overuse, which happens all the time in the Boston area. Consider the colleges, the Symphony, the drivers (just kidding), the sports teams. The MFA truly is world-class -- and all over the place, you'll stumble on masterpieces so familiar that seeing them is like running into an old friend on the street.


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