Boston Museum (theatre)

Interior of the Boston Museum, Tremont St., 1903. On the far wall is Thomas Sully's The Passage of the Delaware (now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)[1]

The Boston Museum (1841–1903), also called the Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts, was a theatre, wax museum, natural history museum, zoo, and art museum in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. Moses Kimball established the enterprise in 1841.[2]

  1. ^ MFA Collections
  2. ^ Jim Vrabel, Thomas O'Connor, Bostonian Society. When in Boston: A Time Line & Almanac. UPNE, 2004.