Boston/Art

5 Art Landmarks in Boston

5 landmarks with verified facts and stories

ICA Boston (Institute of Contemporary Art)
~2 min

ICA Boston (Institute of Contemporary Art)

25 Harbor Shore Dr, Boston, MA 02210

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The ICA is Boston's contemporary art museum and one of the most striking buildings on the waterfront — a glass and steel box designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro that cantilevers dramatically over the harbour, creating a covered outdoor space beneath the building and floor-to-ceiling views of the water from the galleries above.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
~3 min

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115

museumhidden-gem

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a Venetian palace in the Fenway filled with masterpieces — and empty frames where masterpieces used to be.

Mapparium at Mary Baker Eddy Library
~1 min

Mapparium at Mary Baker Eddy Library

200 Massachusetts Ave, Kenmore, Boston, 02115, United States

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The Mapparium is a three-story stained-glass globe that you walk through on a glass bridge — and it's one of the most disorienting, beautiful, and acoustically bizarre experiences in Boston.

Museum of Fine Arts
~4 min

Museum of Fine Arts

465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115

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The Museum of Fine Arts holds over 500,000 works spanning 5,000 years, making it one of the largest and most comprehensive art museums in the world.

Trinity Church
~2 min

Trinity Church

206 Clarendon St, Back Bay, Boston, 02116, United States

architectureiconichistory

Trinity Church is Henry Hobson Richardson's masterpiece — the building that launched an entire architectural movement (Richardsonian Romanesque) and has been ranked among the ten most significant buildings in American history by the American Institute of Architects.

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