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Category: Performance

  • Free Puppet Opera ‘Mr. Twister’ at Arboretum on June 10

    Community, Climate Change, Events, Performance, Public Programs
    Free Puppet Opera ‘Mr. Twister’ at Arboretum on June 10
  • Abilities Dance Boston Performing at Arnold Arboretum on September 17

    Art, Community, Events, Landscape, Performance
    Abilities Dance Boston Performing at Arnold Arboretum on September 17
  • MassQ Ball 2022 Brings Art to Nature

    Art, Community, Events, Landscape, Performance
    MassQ Ball 2022 Brings Art to Nature
  • At the MassQ Ball, Bostonians Wear a Different Sort of Mask

    Art, Boston Globe, Community, Events, Performance, Visitor Engagement
    At the MassQ Ball, Bostonians Wear a Different Sort of Mask
  • Celebrating Art, Nature, and Community

    Silva, Art, Botanical Gardens, Community, Events, Health and Well-being, Landscape, Performance
    Celebrating Art, Nature, and Community
  • The Bard Meets Hip-Hop for the Arboretum’s Sesquicentennial

    Art, Community, Events, Landscape, Performance
    The Bard Meets Hip-Hop for the Arboretum’s Sesquicentennial
  • Explore Your Origins at MassQ Ball 2022

    Community, Art, Environmental Justice, Events, Health and Well-being, Landscape, Performance
    Explore Your Origins at MassQ Ball 2022
  • Boston Children’s Chorus Shines at the Arnold Arboretum

    Art, Community, Performance
    Boston Children’s Chorus Shines at the Arnold Arboretum
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We are committed to the Olmstedian principle that everyone is entitled to open space, so our gates are open to everyone, every day, free of charge.

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The Arnold Arboretum has been funded by the generosity of the supporting public since our founding in 1872. Give today and continue that legacy.

For over 7,000 years, the land on which the Arnold Arboretum now sits has been inhabited and used by diverse societies and cultures of Indigenous Peoples, including most recently, the Massachusett Tribe. Read about the deep history of the Arboretum landscape.

The Arnold Arboretum acknowledges that benefactor Benjamin Bussey, who bequeathed the land on which the institution now is sited, bought the property with funds amassed from trade in goods produced by enslaved persons. Read about the Arboretum and its entanglement with slavery.

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