Below is a list of cheap and free things to do year-round in Boston. It features a curated list of free tours, cheap entertainment, free or discounted museums, and more stuff to do in Boston.
Is there a stuff I should add? Do you want to write a guest post about stuff? I’d love that! Email me at brian@wickedcheapboston.com
The Freedom Trail
- Part One – Background and Guided Tours
- Part Two – Boston Common, Massachusetts State House, Park Street Church, Granary Burying Ground
- Part Three – King’s Chapel, King’s Chapel Burying Ground, First Public School and Benjamin Franklin Statue, Old Corner Bookstore
- Part Four – Old South Meeting House, Old State House and Site of Boston Massacre, Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere House, Old North Church, Copp’s Hill Burying Ground, USS Constitution, Bunker Hill
Literature
Museums
Featured Posts:
How to get into museums for free (without evading security) and Charlie Card Discount Book
- Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media – Free
- Commonwealth Museum – Free
- Gibson House Museum
- Harvard Art Museums – Free for MA residents Saturday mornings 10 AM to Noon
- Harvard Museum of Natural History – Free for MA residents Sundays 9-noon year round and Wednesdays 3-5 PM September through May
- Institute of Contemporary Art – Free Thursdays 5PM to 9 PM
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
- Mary Baker Eddy Library and Mapparium
- Museum of Fine Arts – Free Wednesdays 4PM to 9:45 PM
- Museum of Science
- Nichols House Museum
- MIT Museum – Free Sundays 10 – noon
- National Heritage Museum
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard) – Free for MA residents Sundays 9-noon year round and Wednesdays 3-5 PM September through May
- 808 Gallery
Music and Theater
- Emmanuel Church Bach Cantatas
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Discounted Tickets
- Bostix – Discounted Performing Arts Tickets
Other Stuff
Outdoors
Tastings
Tours – FREE
- Arnold Arboretum
- Boston Athenaeum
- Boston Globe
- Boston Public Library – Arts and Architecture Tour
- The First Church of Christ, Scientist
- Harvard Historical Walking Tour
- Mass Historical Society – Free Tours on Saturdays
- MIT Campus Tour
- Otis House – Free for Boston Residents
- Sam Adams Brewery
- Symphony Hall
- Trinity Church – Free tour on Sunday after 11:15 AM service
Tours – Cheap
- Hahvahd Tours – $10 Suggested Tip (Hahvahd is the Boston way to say Harvard)
- Harpoon Brewery – $5
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