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The Gibson House Museum

137 Beacon Street

Boston, Massachusetts 02116

The Gibson House Museum is an historic house museum located at 137 Beacon Street in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It preserves the 1860 Victorian rowhouse occupied by three generations of the Gibson family. The house was one of the first to be built in Back Bay, and has an unparalleled state of preservation that includes wallpaper, textiles, furnishings, and family artifacts and collections. Both the public and service areas of the house exhibit a high degree of preservation, and are viewable on tours.[ The property was designated a Boston Landmark in 1992 by the Boston Landmarks Commission and a National Historic Landmark in 2001.

The Gibson House Museum is open to the public year-round by guided tour. We offer two standard house tours: “At Home with the Gibsons” and “Upstairs, Downstairs: Domestic Service at the Gibson House.” Each tour allows visitors to explore the house and consider issues of class and culture through the stories and objects of the people who lived and worked here.

Tours are offered Thursday-Sunday at 1:00, 2:00, & 3:00 p.m.

Specialty Tours: https://www.thegibsonhouse.org/speciality-tours

Virtual Tour: https://www.thegibsonhouse.org/virtual-tour

Little Women” at the Gibson House: https://www.thegibsonhouse.org/little-women.html

The Gibson Museum Virtual Tour: https://www.thegibsonhouse.org/virtual-tour.html

Events: https://www.thegibsonhouse.org/events

Explore the website: https://www.thegibsonhouse.org

Image Credits: thegibsonhouse.org unless otherwise noted

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