EVENT
Summer Preschool Programs at the Waterworks
Be an Engineer!
August 22, 2024
10:00am–11:00am
Calling all toddlers and preschoolers! Grab your favorite adult and join us at the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum this summer for stories, crafts, and activities about water and the waterworks. For this week’s program, “Be an Engineer,” join our education team to find out what it takes to be an engineer. Learn about pulleys and make a cardboard car! Participation is FREE! (Suggested Donation: $3 per child)
Great Engines Hall
The centerpiece of the Waterworks Museum is its collection of steam engines. Three original coal-powered, steam-driven water pumps are preserved at the Museum and are monuments to 19th century technology and innovation. Leavitt, Worthington, and Allis stand in the Great Engines Hall and reach more than 3 stories tall. Walk around each and see the multitude of perfectly engineered parts that pumped million gallons of freshwater a day into the City of Boston.