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The Adventure gallery presents two to four rotating exhibits per year. The exhibits are chosen to complement the Adventure and be of interest to both youth and adult visitors.

The gallery is open only to groups making prescheduled visits to the Adventure. Teachers interested in arranging a visit for middle or secondary school students see the Especially for Teachers section. Other groups wishing to visit will find information in the Group Visits section.

 

Latest Exhibit
March 2009–February 2010

Black Entrepreneurs of the 18th and 19th Centuries

 

Prior Exhibits

Artists for Humanity: voice/vision/virtuosity
September 2008-January 2009
A multimedia exhibit by the talented youth of Boston's diverse neighborhoods

Framing The Past
February-August 2008
The full collection of 1920s photographs from the construction of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Renaissance revival building at 30 Pearl Street

Video Games Evolve
July-December 2007
A Brief history from Spacewar! to MMORPGs

Garden Green
January-June 2007
A Boston Fed Fine Arts Collection depicting the beauty of plants in paintings, prints, photography, and sculpture—juxtaposed with live plants. The exhibit highlighted the benefits of gardening and plants, and the serenity that gardens can evoke.

These Are Textiles?
May 2006–January 2007
Innovations in modern fabric design, manufacture, and use

New England Through Lithography
January–April 2006
Lithographs from the Bank's collection document a period of vast commercial growth in New England

New Skills for New Americans
March–December 2005
Education in craftsmanship at North Bennet Street School

Treasures from the Vault
January 18–February 16, 2005
U.S. coins and paper currency dating from our nation's early days through the twentieth century

Icons of Innovation
October 8, 2003–December 31, 2004
Selections from the Rothschild Petersen Patent Model Museum

 

 

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