Combo Pass Boston's Old State House & Old South Meeting House

Lovely museum and the highlight was talking with Monica and her presentation to a large group around 1130am. Incredibly knowledgeable and personable!

Did the combo pass- the museum at the Old State House is in desperate need of renovation with peeking paint, etc. The show, Ruckus!, at the Old South Meeting House is worth it and a great way to learn the history using an original space.

This tour was so fascinating and finding out how exactly the uk was involved with Boston. Superb buildings and love how they were saved too by the people. They stand out amongst the tall modern buildings but in an absolutely beautiful way. Anyone visiting here should definitely go into these places

Fabulous. I especially appreciated the wonderful video of indigenous folks talking about what happened at this space; it was beautiful, and please don’t miss it as part of your experience. The building itself is also historic and lovely, as we know. It’s one of the buildings that was at the cornerstone (no pun unintended, on stones and buildings) of our budding democracy. The internal staircase is beautiful. And the exhibits are thoughtful. I also really love the interactive conversation about busing in schools. The exhibit asked visitors to join in a conversation concerning public education today. Similar to their sister exhibit, at the Old South Meeting house, guests were invited to pen post-it notes and reflections. (See photos). Some are funny, such as “more recess” and “pay kids to go to school” but many are quite meaningful and bring up larger thoughtful ideas, such as “pay teachers more” and “don’t ban books”. I love this interactive sort of exhibit. The only thing I found was a little odd were some of the ‘squeeze and smell’ exhibits. Squeeze to smell the House of Representatives? No thank you. :) It was just a little funny. I don’t think they meant it to be humorous. And I know they were talking about how it would’ve smelled back then, but it’s a little odd!

I had SUCH a blast talking to the staff about the Liberty Tree and other important American history that my education has neglected to inform me of until now. I could have talked to the staff member about it FOREVER, what inspiring stories of the many who were not being considered by the few powerful, rich decision makers. The video they played upstairs highlighting the indigenous families who returned to see where their ancestors where stripped of their humanity in a single decision was very powerful and changed the whole experience (in a very important and necessary way). I appreciate that they had that video, and the four exhibits in the central room (on women, Native Americans, working class, and black people at that time) more than I can express.

While these are not guided tours, there is so much history and the museums are easy to navigate and learn about their historical significance. We did have a guided tour before we came back to visit of the Boston history and that helped us put into context what we saw in these 2 buildings.

Loved this museum. We were lucky enough to have Monica lead our tour, about the Boston massacre. She was phenomenal, despite our group having only five people, she spent a full 90 minutes with us, giving us a fascinating overview of the events leading up to this historical moment and the intrigue and ambiguity surrounding it. She made sure our group was comfortable, found lots of places to sit as she was describing things and kept our interest piqued the whole time. I cannot recommend her tour highly enough. It was included in the cost of seeing the museum.

The information was great… and Megan brought history to life with her insights. We had the opportunity to dialogue with her and get into the finer details of the Writs of Assistance, the framing of the Constitution and the vantage points of the writers and the populace. An incredible experience! $15 covered both the Old State House and Old South Meeting House. We visited these for about 90 minutes.

Our trip to the State House ( we didn't make it to the Meeting House) was very interesting. It provided us with more information about the Revolution than we ever got in textbooks. The way everything was presented gave us a well chronicled history of the events leading up to the Revolution and beyond. The house itself was very impressive. To think, we were standing in the actual State House that stood tall while all that history surrounded it, was pretty amazing. We were glad to have had this opportunity to see it. It was well worth the trip!

This is a self guided tour through the old State House and the Meeting House. The State House has many artifacts from the events leading to the Revolutionary War. The Meeting House provides a look at a large church with parishioner boxes. It is so large, that it served as a meeting location for discussion leading to acts of defiance such as the Boston Tea Party. This is a good history tour.