Name: Cryptic Creatures with Joe Ledoux
Start: 2025-10-16
End: 2025-10-16
Location: The West End Museum

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The West End Museum tells the story of Boston’s West End neighborhood - collecting, preserving, and sharing the history and culture of the 'Greatest Neighborhood This Side of Heaven'.

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Explore the story of a dynamic urban neighborhood — the origin of abolition, a major transportation hub, Boston’s most diverse neighborhood, and the nation’s greatest tragedy of urban renewal.

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Come by the WEM to say hello and dive into West End history! We open tomorrow at 10.30am.

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We offer a wide variety of programs from talks to musical performances. Check out what’s coming up at the museum.

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Our exhibits explore the wide range of history in the West End from its origins to the present day. Check out what’s live, or look through a past exhibit, here.

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16Oct

Cryptic Creatures with Joe Ledoux

The West End Museum

17Oct

The Old Howard Theatre: From Virtuoso to Vaudeville and Vice

The West End Museum

25Oct

Ghosts of the Old West End: A Haunted Walking Tour

The West End Museum

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On View at the Museum

Sepia image of a gymnasium structure and lawn on the edge of a river.

The Charlesbank

The Charlesbank Open from June 11 through October 26, 2025 This special exhibit explores the Charlesbank, the first section of the Boston Esplanade to become parkland. Gradually filled in during the late-nineteenth century, in the 1880s landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. designed a trailblazing park here. The landscaped grounds became an integral site for…

Special Exhibit

Opens June 11, Closes October 26 2025

A map showing 2 overlapping shorelines of Boston to illustrate the massive landfill projects between 1800 and 1900

Rise, Fall, Rebirth: Stories of the West End

Rise, Fall, Rebirth: Stories of the West End The West End Museum’s permanent exhibit, Rise, Fall, Rebirth: Stories of the West End, explores 400 years of history and urban development in the City of Boston through the use of interactive digital media, film, artifacts, and archival material. We want you to feel the West End…

Permanent Exhibit

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African Americans City Planning Modern Sports

A newspaper clipping with three images. The far right and left images show two boys with tennis rackets. The center photo shows a class of students and their teacher with rackets.

Titus Sparrow: The Tennis Ace Who Brought Courts Back to Boston

Titus Sparrow: The Tennis Ace who Brought Courts Back to Boston Renowned tennis player and Boston native, Titus Sparrow (1908-1974), recognized that a city owed its residents more than just roads and bridges. During a long career in which he taught hundreds of young tennis players, Sparrow advocated for public tennis courts for all neighborhoods.…