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Location
Accessibility
Interactive exhibits feature closed caption features; museum tour hosts remain present to assist guests during intense film sequences
Visitor tip
Arrive a few minutes early to your tour time (tours start at 10am-5pm). This gives you time to receive your character card, which the actors will reference throughout the experience to make it more immersive and personalized.
Visitor tip
Don't skip Abigail's Tea Room after your tour. You can sample all 5 types of tea that were actually thrown during the Boston Tea Party, reinforcing what you learned during the interactive tea-throwing experience.
About Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum
Floating museum with live reenactments. Floating history museum with live reenactments, multimedia exhibits & a tearoom.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Historical Museum & Interactive Attraction
- Highlights
- Replica 18th-century sailing vessels, live actor reenactments, throw tea overboard, Robinson Tea Chest artifact, multi-sensory film experience
- Admission
- From $36.00 adults
- Hours
- Tours 10am-5pm
What visitors say
I was slightly hesitant to visit, worried it might be overly touristy, but it really exceeded expectations. The actors are excellent at reading the room and engaging visitors without overdoing it. You are given a character card at the…
What a wonderful experience! You can really feel that the people working here genuinely love what they do, and that passion makes the entire experience incredibly engaging and fun. I’ve visited many live experience history museums, and…
The Boston Tea Party Museum was part of our trip. It’s interactive, engaging, and incredibly well done, making history come alive in a fun and memorable way. From the knowledgeable reenactors to the immersive exhibits, you really feel…
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Did You Know?
- The Robinson Tea Chest is the only known surviving tea chest from the 1773 Boston Tea Party, making it a one-of-a-kind historical artifact
- Features full-scale replica 18th-century sailing vessels (Brig Beaver and Eleanor) where visitors can physically throw tea overboard as part of the interactive experience
- Visitors receive personalized character cards at the start that actors reference throughout the experience, creating a highly immersive and individualized historical reenactment
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