What's on in Boston

Museum of Science, BostonScience Park / West End

Theater of Electricity: Lightning!

Now showingPermanent collectionTicketed — see website

A 20-minute live show in which educators hurl indoor lightning bolts from the world's largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator, built in 1932 as an atom smasher and later joined by three large Tesla coils.

Exhibition website Book tickets

More in Boston

On nowAll of October 2026

Also at Museum of Science, Boston

On now nearby

Display cases of rare books and printed material in the Imagined Nation installation at the Boston Athenæum

Imagined Nation

Boston Athenæum

A photograph by Constantine Manos from his 1974 series documenting Boston's streets, on view in Where's Boston? 50 Years Later

Where's Boston? 50 Years Later

Boston Athenæum

Gibson House Twilight Tours

Gibson House Museum

All exhibitions in Boston this month Coming up in November

Nearby

Exterior of the First Harrison Gray Otis House, a three-storey red-brick Federal mansion at 141 Cambridge Street, Boston

Otis House

Architecture10 min walk
The brick facade of the 1806 African Meeting House on Smith Court, Beacon Hill, Boston

Museum of African American History

Architecture11 min walk
The Federal-style brick facade of 55 Mount Vernon Street, the Nichols House Museum, on Beacon Hill in Boston

Nichols House Museum

Architecture13 min walk
The sandstone Beacon Street facade of the Boston Athenæum at 10½ Beacon Street

Boston Athenæum

Art15 min walk

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