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The Metropolitan Waterworks Museum welcomes you to the opening of Resilient Design in Boston: Solutions for Our Changing Landscape. Produced with the generous assistance of the City of Boston Planning & Development Agency, the panels presented in the Overlook Gallery highlight the best in design and landscape planning made in response to the impact of climate change in Boston. These are the winning entries for . . .

Cuisine Blue, our inaugural fundraising gala, is just around the corner! Join us on the evening of Saturday, September 16, for a fabulous night of food, fun, and surprises. Tickets for the exclusive VIP cocktail party are already SOLD OUT, and admission to the Great Engines Hall Dinner are going quickly. The goal of Cuisine Blue is to raise much-needed funds for our outreach and . . .

#FreeFunFridays A Hit! It was nothing short of spectacular for the Waterworks on Friday, July 14! Not only did the rain hold off, but the museum set a one-day attendance record of almost 1,000 visitors! The museum staff, volunteers, and board members were thrilled with the turnout and can’t thank the Highland Street Foundation enough for sponsoring the Free Fun Fridays program. Our programs were . . .

It’s almost here! #FreeFunFridays at the Waterworks Museum is set for Friday, July 14! We are looking forward to hosting hundreds of visitors (more than 500 last year!) and celebrating water! Our partners and supporters will be sharing fun activities that focus on history, engineering, water science and more. Join us for stories, splashing, and special guests. We thank the Highland Street Foundation for partnering . . .

The Waterworks Museum wishes to congratulate the amazing efforts of the students, teachers, and families, who were recognized by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) in their 2016-2017 School Poster, Writing, and Video Contest. The theme this year was “Whatever the Weather,” and highlighted the fact that the MWRA works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year to bring . . .

We want to thank the great people at Community Rowing, Inc., a nonprofit here in Brighton, Ma, that believes in “Rowing for all!” The Waterworks Museum held it’s first annual summer staff retreat by attending a corporate rowing event and really learning to pull together as a team. The instructors and staff at CRI were fantastic, and you can tell by the photo that even the . . .

A recent article in The Boston Globe reignited local awareness for the issue of clean drinking water (“High lead levels found in water at hundreds of schools,” May 1, 2017). The article outlines the analysis of a year-long effort to assess the levels of lead and other contaminants in the drinking water at more than 1,000 Massachusetts schools. In other words, the water that thousands . . .

Dear Friends, Welcome to the new and greatly improved Metropolitan Waterworks Museum website! I hope you find this portal as engaging and easy to use as we do. We have built this new site to help you learn, visit, and hopefully support us in our mission to preserve and interpret the rich history of Boston’s public drinking water system. Inside, you will find new menus, links, . . .