Get your inventiveness in gear!
Check out our live streaming interview on UnRegular Radio Sunday, May 6!
We will be closed Thursday & Friday, May 10 & 11 to prepare for the Watch City Festival.
We will hold the Watch City Festival Saturday & Sunday, May 12 & 13 and the Museum will be a buttoned venue, meaning admission will require a festival button. Buttons can be purchased at the festival or online here.
Located on the scenic banks of the Charles River in the historic 1814 Boston Manufacturing Company textile mill, CRMII is on the National Register of Historic Places as America’s first factory. Hands on exhibits feature American innovation and invention from 1812 to modern day, including the Boston Manufacturing Company, The Orient Bicycle and Metz Automobile, the Waltham Watch Factory and more.
At the Museum
The Mill Children In late August of 1911, Lewis Wickes Hine visited the Eclipse Mill in North Adams, Massachusetts to photograph child laborers on behalf of the National Child Labor Committee. Hine’s photographs contributed to the social movement to reform laws for child and adult workers. One hundred years later a group of artists, working in that same mill and in North Adams, used nine of Hine’s photos for inspiration. The resulting exhibit, sponsored by the Brill Gallery, features both images the original Hines photographs, the corresponding art, historical narratives of the children photographed and interviews of the artists currently working in the Eclipse Mill. For more information and educational materials visit http://www.brillgallery109.com/exhibits/millchildren/gallery.php. Running March 15, 2012 – June 15, 2012
Inspire your own Yankee ingenuity. Visit us soon!
154 Moody Street
Waltham, MA 02453
781-893-5410
$7 regular admission
$5 for seniors and students
Children under 6, members and US Military active and retired are free
Photos courtesy Sam Ogden and Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation. Design by Perugi Design.
