Unusual museums in Boston
Looking for unusual museums & collections in Boston? These 7 are the genuinely strange ones — Museum of Bad Art (MOBA), Larz Anderson Auto Museum, Boston Fire Museum and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Boston they'd never find on their own.
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Museum of Bad Art (MOBA)
The world's only museum built entirely around sincerely-attempted, seriously-wrong art — a collection that be…
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Larz Anderson Auto Museum
America's oldest continuous car collection, housed in an 1888 Carriage House modeled on the Château de Chaumo…
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Boston Fire Museum
A volunteer-run museum inside the 1891 Congress Street Fire Station, a Romanesque Revival firehouse on the Na…
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Paper House
A house that Swedish mechanical engineer Elis F. Stenman built between 1922 and 1924 with walls insulated in…
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Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home
An entire 200-year-old, 16-bedroom Qing-dynasty merchant house from Anhui province, China — dismantled beam b…
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Forest of Here: Jeila Gueramian at Fuller Craft Museum
A full-room fiber installation built from handmade and salvaged textiles, found objects, kinetic parts, sound…
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Wenham Museum (doll & model-train collection)
Inside a 1655 colonial house-turned-museum on Boston's North Shore sits one of the country's largest antique…