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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

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks, Harvard, Radcliffe - This exhibit features community cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, spanning the 19th to the 21st centuries. The collection showcases the efforts of women’s groups within a variety of organizations and visitors are invited to consider how foodways and community advocacy intersect.

Constantine Manos: Where’s Boston? 50 Years Later, Boston Atheneum - Photographer Constantine Manos’ vivid portrait of the city of Boston and its people. Commissioned for the Where’s Boston? Bicentennial exhibition, scenes of celebration, tension, and daily life explore the complex intersections of community, race, and access in Boston, presenting a powerful, nuanced document of a city both in motion and in reflection. Who are Bostonians? What defines the city? How have spaces, identities, and divisions changed—or remained the same—over fifty years?

right? MassArt Art Museum - On view through February 2027, this evolving work transforms articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) into dense bouquets of gold Mylar letter balloons which affirm the rights to an adequate standard of living and an education. Over time, as the balloons deflate, the exhibit becomes a meditation on the labor required to sustain and protect these rights and a question of if we should continue to believe and uphold such rights.

Hao Jingban: I Witness, MIT Museum - Hao Jingban’s first major US museum solo work blends documentary sensibility with poetic construction in I Witness (2025), a three-channel video installation focused on the COVID-19 pandemic: four participants move slowly through a well-lit apartment, an older woman sleeps alone and rises to clean her refrigerator, a group of young people pacing an open field. This work opens a space for the body's own testimony to be heard.

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.