To use the sortable table, click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order.
| Name | Neighborhood | Type | Notes | | Abiel Smith School | Beacon Hill | African American | Part of Museum of Afro-American History, first public school for free blacks |
| African Meeting House | Beacon Hill | African American | Part of the Museum of Afro-American History |
| Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company Museum | Downtown Boston | History | Military museum, JFK and Medal of Honor special exhibits, military relics, paintings, photographs, and library, located on the 4th floor of Faneuil Hall |
| Boston African American National Historic Site | Beacon Hill | African American | Interprets 15 pre-Civil War structures relating to the history of Boston's 19th-century African-American community, including the African Meeting House and the Abiel Smith School |
| Boston Athenæum | Beacon Hill | Multiple | Library and museum of art |
| Boston Children's Museum | South Boston | Children's | Located on Children's Wharf |
| Boston City Hall Galleries | Financial District | Art | website, Mayor's Gallery exhibits work by Boston artists, Scollay Square Gallery showcases arts organizations and artists community groups that support Boston artists |
| Boston Fire Museum | Financial District | Fire |
| Boston National Historical Park | Boston | Historic sites | Revolutionary War trail in Boston and Charlestown, includes Old South Meeting House, Old State House, Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere House, Old North Church, Bunker Hill Monument, USS Constitution |
| Boston Public Library | Back Bay | Library | Changing exhibits of art and history from its collections at the Central Library, also at branch locations |
| Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum | South Boston | History | Reenactments, interactive exhibits, and two authentically restored ships |
| Boston University Art Galleries | Fenway–Kenmore | Art | website, Stone, 808, Annex, and Sherman Galleries |
| BSA Space | Financial District | Architecture | Changing exhibits of architecture and design by the Boston Society of Architects |
| Bunker Hill Monument | Charlestown | Military | Monument and museum about the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill |
| Center for the History of Medicine | Longwood Medical and Academic Area | Medical | Rotating exhibits about the history of medicine from the collections of the Countway LIbrary of Medicine |
| Commonwealth Museum | Dorchester | History | State history, operated by the Massachusetts Archives |
| Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate | Dorchester | History | Specialty museum and educational institution containing the only full-scale reproduction of the U.S. Senate Chamber. |
| Faneuil Hall | Downtown Boston | History | Marketplace and meeting hall during the American Revolution |
| Fort Warren | Georges Island | Military | Mid 19th-century fort and park |
| Gallery 360 at Northeastern University | Fenway–Kenmore | Art | website, located in Ell Hall |
| Gallery 5 at Emmanuel College | Longwood Medical and Academic Area | Art | website, exhibitions of work by professional artists, emerging artists, artist residents, outsider artists and Emmanuel College art students and alumni |
| Garner Center for Photographic Exhibitions | Fenway–Kenmore | Art | website, photography exhibitions by the New England School of Photography |
| Gibson House Museum | Back Bay | Historic house | 1850-1870s period townhouse |
| Harbor Gallery at University of Massachusetts Boston | Dorchester | Art | [https://www.umb.edu/in_the_community/arts/harbor_gallery website], student-run gallery in McCormack Hall |
| Huret and Spector Gallery at Emerson College | Boston Theater District | Art | website, located in the Tufte Performance Production Center (10 Boylston Place) |
| Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston | South Boston | Art | Contemporary art |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Fenway–Kenmore | Art | Includes European, Asian and American art, including paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts |
| James Blake House | Dorchester | Historic house | Operated by the Dorchester Historical Society, 1661 house, oldest house in Boston |
| John F. Kennedy Library and Museum | Dorchester | Biographical | Presidential library and museum of John F. Kennedy |
| Lemuel Clap House | Dorchester | Historic house | Operated by the Dorchester Historical Society, mid 18th-century period house |
| Loring-Greenough House | Jamaica Plain | Historic house | 18th-century period mansion |
| Mary Baker Eddy Library | Fenway–Kenmore | Multiple | Includes the Mapparium, a three-story, stained-glass globe, the Hall of Ideas and changing exhibits about relating to the life of Mary Baker Eddy |
| Mary L. Fifield Art Gallery at Bunker Hill Community College | Charlestown | Art | website |
| Massachusetts College of Art and Design Galleries | Longwood Medical and Academic Area | Art | website, 10 galleries: Arnheim Gallery, Brant Gallery, Bakalar and Paine Galleries, Doran Gallery, Godine Family Gallery, President's Gallery, Student Life Gallery, Tower Gallery, and North Crackertorium Gallery |
| Massachusetts Historical Society | Back Bay | History | Exhibits from its collections of American history, life and culture |
| Museum of Afro-American History | Beacon Hill | African American | Includes the African Meeting House and Abiel Smith School |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Fenway–Kenmore | Art | Contains over 450,000 works of art |
| Museum of Science, Boston | Downtown Boston | Science | Includes over 500 interactive exhibits, 100 animals, planetarium and IMAX theater |
| Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists | Roxbury | Art | Contemporary and historical expressive arts from the global Black world, located in Abbotsford house |
| Nichols House Museum | Beacon Hill | Historic house | Turn-of-the-century townhouse with period rooms |
| Old North Church | North End | Historic site | 18th-century church, location from which the famous "One if by land, and two if by sea" signal is said to have been sent in 1775 |
| Old South Meeting House | Financial District | History | Organizing point for the Boston Tea Party, includes museum |
| Old State House Museum | Financial District | History | Operated by The Bostonian Society, 18th-century Colonial state house, served as the first state house for the newly formed Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
| Otis House Museum | West End | Historic house | Owned by Historic New England, also known as Harrison Gray Otis House, post-Revolutionary house |
| Paul Revere House | North End | Historic house | Late 17th-century period house, home of American Revolutionary patriot Paul Revere, also adjacent Pierce–Hichborn House |
| Photographic Resource Center | Fenway–Kenmore | Art | website, photography and related media |
| Pierce House | Dorchester | Historic house | Owned by Historic New England, 17th-century period house, open twice a year |
| Roxbury Heritage State Park | Roxbury | Historic house | 1750 Dillaway–Thomas House restored to show how it changed over two centuries |
| Russell Museum of Medical History and Innovation | West End | Medical | website explores history of medicine and health care at Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Shirley-Eustis House | Roxbury | Historic house | Restored 18th-century mansion of Royal Governor William Shirley |
| The Sports Museum | West End | Sports | Celebrates Boston sports, located in TD Garden |
| Suffolk University Gallery | Downtown Boston | Art | website, exhibition space for the New England School of Art and Design in the former Paine Furniture Building |
| Towne Art Gallery at Wheelock College | Longwood Medical and Academic Area | Art | website, work of New England artists in a variety of media |
| Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons College | Longwood Medical and Academic Area | Art | website, professional and student work |
| USS Cassin Young | Charlestown | Maritime | World War II destroyer museum ship |
| USS Constitution | Charlestown | Maritime | "Old Ironsides", wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy, launched in 1797 |
| USS Constitution Museum | Charlestown | Maritime | Privately run museum is located at the former Charlestown Navy Yard near the US Navy's USS Constitution |
| Vilna Shul | Beacon Hill | Ethnic | Boston's center for Jewish culture |
| Warren Anatomical Museum | Longwood Medical and Academic Area | Medical | Housed in Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine |
| Waterworks Museum, Boston | Allston–Brighton | Technology | website, late 19th-century former pumping station for the Chestnut Hill Reservoir |
| West End Museum | West End | Local History | West End neighborhood history and culture |
| William Clapp House | Dorchester | Historic house | 19th-century house, home of the Dorchester Historical Society |
| William Hickling Prescott House | Beacon Hill | Historic house | Operated by The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 19th-century home of author William Hickling Prescott |
|