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Welcome to the Boston Athenæum
A new exhibition,
Required Reading: Reimagining a Colonial Library,
is now open on our first floor.
We're delighted to announce our expansion into the building next door!
UPCOMING
Oct/22
Programming Advisory Meeting
8:30 am
to
9:30 am
Film: Who Killed Vincent Chin?
5:30 pm
to
7:00 pm
Oct/23
Curator-Led Gallery Talk
10:00 am
to
11:00 am
Boston Music Showcase and Wine Night
6:00 pm
to
7:30 pm
Oct/24
The Ghosts of Eden Park
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Oct/29
The Life and Saga of Harriet Jacobs
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
Oct/30
Docent-Led Gallery Talk: Required...
10:15 am
Images and Shadows
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Oct/31
Jefferson's White House:...
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
Nov/05
Director's Coffee Hour
11:00 am
to
12:00 pm
Nov/07
Staff-Led Gallery Talk: Required...
4:15 pm
to
4:45 pm
The Mind has Cliffs of Fall
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Nov/08
Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline...
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
Nov/09
Docent-Led Gallery Talk: Required...
12:15 pm
to
12:45 pm
Nov/11
A Celebration of Veterans and Our...
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
Nov/12
Member's Choice: Teffi: A Life of...
6:30 pm
to
7:30 pm
Nov/13
Thomson Endowed Lecture, All Necessary...
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Nov/14
Proprietors' Autumn Meeting
3:30 pm
to
6:00 pm
Nov/19
This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag...
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
Eye of the Expert: (Anti) Suffrage
5:30 pm
to
7:00 pm
FEATURED
September-October 2019 Newsletter
Athenæum Author of the Month:
Dr. Elvira Basevich
STAFF BOOK SUGGESTIONS
Summer 2019
Browse
My darlings ABC
, new in the Rare Books Digital Collection
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