Boston Children’s Museum (first) is established.

(Jul.) Originally the Children’s Museum of Boston and by George Barton, it is located in the former Pinebank (third) on the shore of Jamaica Pond. The second children’s museum in the U.S. (after Brooklyn’s in 1899), it is an outgrowth by a group of educators calling themselves the Science Teachers Bureau that began meeting in 1909 to “consider the question of science teaching in the public schools.” Association. The museum moves to 60 Burroughs Street (second) in March 1936, and to its current location on the waterfront (third) in 1979.*