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Cambridge

Green Cambridge - Green Cambridge focuses on creating sustainable cities and neighborhoods and protecting the environment to ensure the health of everyone in the community. Volunteers and community members can participate in environmental cleanups, invasive plant mapping and removal, and outdoor education.

Harvard Art Museums - Visit and explore collections spanning modern and contemporary art and works of artistic innovation from across the globe. Admission is free to the public on Sundays—and the museum hosts a wide variety of events, including gallery talks, workshops, and special programs.

Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology - Visit the Harvard Peabody Museum exhibit Resetting the Table: Food & Our Changing Tastes to learn about how social, economic, and political forces have shaped the ways Americans have eaten through time.

Urban park (UP) Roof Garden - The UP Roof Garden is a rooftop garden in Kendall Square filled with an assortment of vegetables, herbs, and flowers. The garden, located at the Kendall Center, offers free produce to any visitors, and is the site for community events including free fitness classes, food classes, and outdoor activities.

Broad Discovery Center - The new Broad Discovery Center in Kendall Square is an active, public educational space that highlights how researchers at the Broad Institute—and around the globe—are working to understand and treat the causes of disease. The Center features five galleries, where visitors can view interactive exhibits spanning a range of topics, from infectious diseases to scientific technologies. Admission is free to the public.

Temporary Exhibits

Boston Busing in Chinatown, 1975, Rose Kennedy Greenway - This public art exhibition, displayed at the Rose Kennedy Greenway through May 2026, highlights the 1975 Chinatown mothers boycott of Boston Public Schools during the Boston desegregation busing crisis. The exhibition aims to honor the voices of those who fought for Chinese and immigrant student safety, representation, communication, and educational equity.

Midnight March, MassArt Art Museum - On view at the MassArt Art Museum through May 2026, this exhibitions uses felted wool sculptures to create worlds and mythologies that reflect multicultural identity. The exhibit seeks to bridge cultural divide by countering harmful narratives with new, inclusive ones, generated through art.

Crossroads, ICA Seaport Studio - This exhibit, open Tuesdays through Thursdays through May 2026, showcases comics made by local youth reflecting on the feeling of having a choice. The autobiographical comics explore how past decisions have influenced the young artists' lives as well as how they might actuate self-led choices in the future.

Remembering the Future, MIT Museum - On view at the MIT Museum, this exhibition uses colored twines and ropes to visualize the history of Earth's changing climate and its potential futures.

Boston/Greater Boston

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - Every first Thursday of the month, admission is free and the museum is open to the community, featuring special programming around a specific topic for the evening, centered around discovery. Community members can explore art and artist studios, hear from featured artists/speakers, and learn about new topics through interactive activities.

Waterworks Museum - The Waterworks Museum provides and interprets stories of Boston’s water system, through programming and exhibits on urban history, engineering, public health, and safe water access, using history to present challenges and current water issues.

Paul S. Russell Museum of Medical History and Innovation - Free and open to the public, the Museum of Medical History and Innovation presents the history of medical innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Emerald Necklace - Visit the Shattuck Visitor Center to learn about how Frederick Law Olmsted created the Emerald Necklace, a series of parks along a human-made riverway that doubles as public greenspace and a stormwater drainage system for the Boston area.

Arnold Arboretum - Take a walk around the Arnold Arboretum to enjoy the outdoors and learn about the arboretum’s extensive collection of plants. Admission is free and guided tours and exhibitions are frequently available.