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Huzzah, Samuel Adams, and Fie on the British!
Huzzah, Samuel Adams, and Fie on the British!

Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum

It was an honour to be chosen from my tour group to throw the tea over the side of the good ship Eleanor.

Actually, I was closest to the “chest.” It was still a very fun and memorable living history experience to dump “tea” into the sea, in the same spot as the Sons of Liberty in 1773.

I give the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum full marks for immersiveness, interactivity, education, technical innovation, and just plain fun.

One of the most interesting things I learned during my visit is that Boston was a promontory, almost an island, at the time of the Tea Party. A very great deal of the land on which the modern city has been built has been created by reclamation or infill. See details at How Boston Made Itself Bigger from National Geographic.

An attractive wooden layered map illustrates the shorelines Then & Now very effectively.
An attractive wooden layered map illustrates the shorelines Then & Now very effectively.

This video pretty much sums up the experience.

The blueberry scones in the tea room afterwards were a bonus.

Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum is museum no. 21 in my #100museums challenge (see 100 Museums Challenge).