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Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum is an attraction in Boston, MA, part of the Boston guide. Cost: $25 to $50. Open year-round.

306 Congress St · Boston, MA

Why you should go…

This floating museum on the Fort Point Channel lets you do the thing every visitor secretly wants to do: throw tea into Boston Harbor. Costumed actors lead an immersive, interactive retelling of the December 1773 protest aboard faithfully restored tall ships, and the museum holds one of the only surviving tea chests from that night. History has rarely been this much fun.

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