Amanda Bentham

Highly recommended. We loved our visit to this museum! An amazing marriage of form and function, the old engine room and the truly impressive industrial pumping machinery inside are a real delight. We met the director, who was extremely informative and also rightly proud of the museum and its history. It’s impossible to underestimate the importance of this place, its architect, engineers and workers in the creation of Boston as a city. With the coming of a fresh clean healthy water supply in 1848 there was a 5 mile municipal parade and the people celebrated for two days after the switch on at Boston Common. It’s a shame the city authorities don’t seem to celebrate this wonderful feature with the same enthusiasm today.