Going to Boston...
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allright, if by 'design nerd' you mean you want to see lots of international style clean swiss (it stays) design, then, yeah, boston will disappoint.
but if you want the broader view, there's lots of hidden gems here, if you care to seek them out.
let's see, the Eameses did an exhibit about mathematics at the museum of science that's been there since 1981, and it's immensely pleasing, fun, and unmistakably Eames.
http://www.mos.org/
(plus they have old space capsules and some massive old steam-powered industrial machines from mass' heyday as a manufacturing powerhouse)The Boston Athenaeum is having an Edward Gorey show right now, but they recently had some flooding problems, so maybe check with them first. Interesting place nonetheless, oozing history.
http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/Trinity church in Copley Sq is HH Richardson's masterpiece, and pretty interesting on the inside. It's meant to look like a massive fortress but is actually quite lightly built, and has some lovely murals on the inside.
More practically, there's a plumbing museum in Watertown:
http://theplumbingmuseum.org/ind…
industrial design right there.There's actually a military history museum right in Faneuil Hall which pretty much nobody knows about:
http://www.ahac.us.com/index.htm…
Has some nice old pieces of mass destruction weaponryYou can visit the Adams national history site, the actual home of both Adams presidents, full of historically relevant stuff:
http://www.nps.gov/adam/index.ht…then, my personal favorite, but also pretty hard to access, the Warren Anatomical Collection at the Harvard Medical School Library:
https://www.countway.harvard.edu…Then there's the new Norman Foster-designed wing on the MFA, the ICA down by the waterfront, and the aforementioned 'poster shop': http://www.internationalposter.c… on newbury st,
they actually sell josef müller-brockman originals if you haven't seen enough helvetica to please your sensibilities.The one bummer is that the WPA murals of the history of the telephone in post office square have been taken down, those were pretty amazing.
Couple more museums:
http://web.mit.edu/museum/
and another personal favorite, the harvard natural history museum:
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/There's way more excellent crap to visit outside of boston, but you'd need a car and way more time. Sick of people saying there's nothing to do in Boston, they lack imagination.
Also too: http://boston.aiga.org/