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The Sports Museum

Tourist attraction Museum Non profit organization

Longtime museum with a variety of Boston-area sports memorabilia & artifacts, plus frequent tours. People often mention tour, sports, Boston, great, guide, history, Eric, Garden, Celtics, Bruins,


Address

TD Garden, 100 Legends Way, Boston, MA 02114

Website

sportsmuseum.org

Contact

(617) 212-6814

Rating on Google Maps

4.60 (69 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Saturday: Closed
  • Sunday: Closed
  • Monday: 12 to 3:30 PM
  • Tuesday: Closed
  • Wednesday: 12 to 3:30 PM
  • Thursday: 12 to 3:30 PM
  • Friday: Closed

Featured Reviews


Frequently mentioned in reviews: tour (38) sports (24) Boston (22) great (18) guide (16) history (16) Eric (11) Garden (11) Celtics (9) Bruins (9)
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  • 5/5 warren e. 10 months ago on Google • 75 reviews
    Certainly a must see and do. It was a great tour and our guide was wonderful. We learned a ton of great history about the boston sports teams and enjoyed a great visit to the court. I would definitely recommend to any boston sports fan.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Destiny L. 1 year ago on Google
    This was my first ever time on Boston. The museum was defiantly the highlight of my trip! our tour guide was Eric, he was amazing!! I highly recommend him, he was so sweetest person, even took us to some places that weren't included in the tour, but had great history behind it. So if you love learning the history, I highly recommend requesting Eric! He knows so much about the history and made me feel very included as a Canadian not knowing much history about Boston! I will defiantly be coming back and bringing others with me!
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Alex C. 1 year ago on Google
    I don't recommend this tour at all. If you want to know the stadium better get a ticket for the Celtics, staff will let you go near the court where the expensive seats are to take pics. As for the tour, as a Celtics fan the content was scarse and it had a lot of patriots and red sox content which has nothing to do with the TD. The guide wasn't great at all either, just limited to the program information, not involved in providing a unique experience and he walked too fast and started explaining the newer sections with people left behind.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Kathy N. 10 months ago on Google • 35 reviews
    We had a great experience at the Sports Museum. Eric was so knowledgeable about all of Bostons' teams and history. If you are a sports fan, this is a must do while in Boston.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Alex C. 1 month ago on Google • 166 reviews New
    A must-visit for fans of Boston sports teams. It was really cool to get access to see TD Garden when it was so empty and to see the various levels. The exhibits are really cool too. Some highlights include bricks from the original Boston Garden, as well as seats, a section of the original parquet floor, and the Bruins old penalty box.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Petr K. 5 months ago on Google • 206 reviews
    Well if you are in Boston and like sports this is the most important place for me to visit with only 20$ for one hour. 9 floors of a beautiful place not only for Celtics and Bruins , but for a variety of sports and concerts. 18-19 seats A lot of bars 🍻 the story of Celtics and Bruins Red Sox with full of photos and personal memorable items of great athletes of the past are waiting for you there.

  • 5/5 julissa a. 5 months ago on Google • 39 reviews
    My 9 year old has been asking to do this museum. It was great! An arena tour as well as sports memorabilia. He luvs hockey, and he thought they had very interesting things! It was also an hour, which is perfect for a 9 yr old!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Katherine B. 6 months ago on Google • 23 reviews
    Thank you to Erik and Alexa at the Bruins for planning such a wonderful tour! For a bunch of hockey fans, and a bunch of sports enthusiasts in general, Boston fans or not, we had an absolute blast learning about the 100 years of history for the Bruins, the TD Garden and the entire history of Boston Sports. Erik was such a great and knowledgeable tour guide- even while cracking jokes with us New Yorkers. We had an absolute blast and the building is beautiful. The staff was so professional and it was really cool to see all the wonderful memorabilia around their building!!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 kyle l. 10 months ago on Google
    We had our tour with Eric, really great experience and got to see the court from all different angles! The tour highlighted a load of history from not just the Celtics but also the Bruins, Red Sox and the Patriots! Very informative would highly recommend it to anyone who visits Boston!!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Cindy A. 9 months ago on Google
    Wonderful experience! Our tour guide was very knowledgeable in all areas of Boston sports. This is very much a hidden gem within all of Boston. Heads up if you’re going, head towards the Bruins pro shop and you’ll see a table for sign ups right by the door. Took me a minute to find. Staff was very welcoming and kind.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Grace F. 8 months ago on Google • 18 reviews
    My family and I loved the tour of TD Garden! It was a great experience and great to know that the admission money is given to charity. Highly recommend if you are a sports fan.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Timothy N. 5 years ago on Google
    It is the most enjoyable place I visited. It is a pleasant surprise that in TD Place, there lies a place where I can visit the legends of New England sports, especially those that play in the old Boston Garden.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Steven R. 1 year ago on Google
    If you're not a fan of all Boston teams, parts of the tour may drag a bit. That being said, it was still very interesting to see all of the memorabilia and learn the history of sports in the city.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 jim y. 1 year ago on Google
    Really fun tour. A life long Boston sports fan and I still learned a few things. Out tour guide James was fantastic.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 R R. 5 years ago on Google
    Tourist trap. But nice place
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Shavie J. 4 years ago on Google
    My teen is a basketball fanatic and he was in a zone just seeing TD Garden!!! Our tour guide, Catherine Bogart, was AMAZING!!! She shared so much information and answered every question the kiddos asked. We thoroughly enjoyed our Sports Museum tour and are planning to return in the summer for the TD Garden tour.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Eoghan O. 6 months ago on Google • 27 reviews
    Overall, the Arena Tour was a great experience. You get a great insight into the the Celtics and the Bruins, their history and more. The tour guide was very knowledgeable and was great for answering questions. It would have been nice to access some of the home dressing rooms instead of the dressing rooms for the away teams.

  • 5/5 Alexa S. 9 years ago on Google
    Amazing experience! Went here with my entire family for a Sports Museum Tour, and I couldn't have been happier. The artifacts were amazing, and all of the tour guides and staff are super knowledgeable and pleasant, ask them anything! I will definitely be visiting again. Thanks, Sports Museum Superheroes!

  • 5/5 Jenny F. 1 year ago on Google
    There's a bit of overlap with this tour and the TD Garden tour, but lots of great memorabilia. The staff is a bit unorganized, but if you get particular ones, they are extremely knowledgeable.

  • 5/5 Karla D. 1 year ago on Google
    A hidden gem in Boston! Amazing collection of memorabilia and art in a fantastic setting. Eric, our tour guide, was an endless source of sports history (including the ice-capades and Boston Marathon) plus an enthusiastic ambassador for the museum’s mission.

  • 5/5 Robert R. 1 year ago on Google
    Best $20 I spent in Boston. If you're a sports fan (or a fan of sports history), you need to check this out. It's a guided tour only, and my guide Eric was outstanding!

  • 5/5 Brian S. 1 year ago on Google
    Eric was an amazing guide. Went long, which was awesome! So much history there. A hidden gem.

  • 5/5 Haider H. 1 year ago on Google
    Our tour guide Eric was awesome. Really had fun time and learned a lot.

  • 4/5 Thomas H. 5 years ago on Google
    This is a nice place to go and look all the stuff that is there to see they go to a game

  • 5/5 Ricardo S. 5 years ago on Google
    Very informative. It allows you to appreciate the teams and players in Boston even more.

  • 5/5 Jason K. 5 years ago on Google
    The tour lasted just over an hour and was led by a new, but informative tour guide. It was interesting to see the history of both Boston and TD Gardeb throughout the years.

  • 5/5 Maarten G. 5 years ago on Google
    Great tour and very nice guide who knows all about Celtics, Bruins and Red Sox!

  • 5/5 John H. 10 years ago on Google
    Fantastic collection of various sports memorabilia. Covers all the major sports teams in New England as well as High School and College sports. See your local library and inquire about their admission pass program.

  • 5/5 Warren C. 5 years ago on Google
    Great place to visit.

  • 5/5 Mary H. 5 years ago on Google
    Knowlegeable, friendly guide, informative, fun tour

  • 5/5 Teresa H. 5 years ago on Google
    My kids enjoyed it

  • 5/5 Angelo T. 6 years ago on Google
    Welcome to The Sports Museum.

  • 5/5 spencer a. 8 years ago on Google
    I haven't been

  • 5/5 Paul L. 1 year ago on Google
    Cool tour

  • 3/5 Alan R. 5 years ago on Google
    Consists mostly of photographs on 2 floors of the TD Garden. Occasional cases of actual paraphernalia scattered about. Visited on a special free day so it worth the trip.

  • 5/5 dana l. 9 years ago on Google
    it was the worst museum ever

  • 5/5 Ian L. 2 years ago on Google
    This was an amazing experience! Our tour guide Eric was very informative and did a great job highlighting all the great parts of not only the sports museum but the views of the garden as well. I’d recommend this tour to any and all avid sports fans.

  • 5/5 Richard C. 2 years ago on Google
    Our family returned from a vacation in Boston a few days ago. I just wanted to take a moment to relate what I feel was truly one of the highlights of our trip. Our sons are huge sports fans and one of the things they really wanted to do while in Boston was to see TD Garden. Our son learned we could take a "behind-the-scenes" tour and was very excited to see the Garden. We stopped by on Sunday but just missed the last tour of the day. The friendly museum staff suggested we stop back Monday morning if possible, which we did. We were extremely fortunate to go on the tour with Eric. He related that he has only been in Boston for a few months. It's quite obvious that he takes his job seriously, but we were all impressed at how professional, funny, knowledgable, informative, and engaging he is. Eric made an effort to get to know each member of the tour, answered many questions, and made the tour both educational and fun.

  • 4/5 SC C. 2 years ago on Google
    Lots of history to look at, our guide was very informative. We came to see Celtics memories and view the famous floor. Unfortunately, the new scoreboard was being installed and everything has been taken down. Also, this wasn't mentioned in the calendar on the website which would have been nice to avoid the disappointment that we felt.

  • 4/5 Stanley H. 3 years ago on Google
    Closed the grounds were well kept

  • 4/5 teresa r. 6 years ago on Google
    I didn't even know he had a museum... But I loved my mini tour before the big game. I definitely recommend visiting the Inner depths of TD garden to discover what priceless sports treasures live there. The deal: it's worth the trip... There is sports memorabilia here that you cannot see anywhere else!

  • 5/5 Isaac D. 5 years ago on Google
    This place was awesome wasn't a hockey fan at all might start watching now. Mainly came for the Celtics but the whole place was awesome. STRONGLY RECOMMEND COMING HERE


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Amenities


  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible entrance
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible restroom
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible parking lot

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