MLK Day events around Greater Boston
Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration – FREE! Mon, Jan 20, 2025 1:00pm
Strand Theatre, 534 Columbia Rd, Boston, MA 02125, United States
Martin Luther King Day Commemoration & Remembrance – Cambridge – Monday January 20, 2025
11:00 AM, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 838 Massachusetts Ave., Central Sq., Cambridge
2025 Cambridge MLK DAY OF SERVICE & LEARNING – Monday January 20, 2025
2:00 –5:00 pm
Women’s March: People’s March Boston 2025 -Saturday January 18, 11-1, Boston Common
Arts Boston – discount theater tickets
Boston Calendar – list of events happening around Boston. Also lists free events.
All Harvard Art museums are free to the public
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 (home to the world-famous glass flowers)
Enter Free with Harvard ID:
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art, 25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston MA 02210
Guided Tours and Museums
BOSTON BY FOOT is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting public awareness and appreciation of Boston’s rich history and architectural heritage by offering a wide range of guided tours.
Freedom Trail tours the guides dress in perios and take on the personality of someone of the era. Entertaining and educational.
Museum of African American History and the Black Heritage Trail
Duck Boats Tour Tour is on land and water. Use amphibious vehicles that can go both on land and water.
Walk the Black Heritage Trail – downtown Beacon Hill (Park Street MBTA station)
ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER Museum – 25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115
View Boston – Ascend to the top of the Prudential Tower’s 52nd floor for incredible indoor panoramic views of the city, use the Virtual Viewers to learn more about the City’s many landmarks and attractions.
Quincy Market – iconic and historic shopping area
Newbury Street – quaint shopping street
Offbeat things to see:
Mapparium – world-famous, three-story, stained-glass globe at the Mary Baker Eddy Library
Mt Auburn Cemetary – is first and foremost a cemetery, but it is also a National Historic Landmark, a botanical garden, an outdoor museum of art and architecture, and an important habitat for urban wildlife.
Restaurants
Union Oyster House – the oldest restaurant in America, est 1826 – Located near Faneuil Hall, Get a bowl of clam chowder.
Near Boston/Cambridge
Lowell National Historic Park – Get an insider’s look at life in the mills at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum and Mill Girls & Immigrants Exhibit. Explore two centuries of hard work and innovative engineering on a ranger-led Canal Tour or Trolley Tour. Grab a map of the Canalways and walk through the history of Lowell’s waterpower, preservation, and urban design.
Salem – home of the witch trials and an outstanding museum –Peabody Essex Museum
Revere Beach – the oldest public beach in the US. You can reach the beach on the MBTA blue line.