This Boston museum is offering free admission to women on Saturday
In honor of International Women's Day.
Looking to celebrate International Women’s Day, even after the day is over? You can start by visiting the Nichols House Museum.
The Beacon Hill museum is offering free admission to adult women on Saturday, March 11, in honor of International Women’s Day. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., women can check out the house-turned-museum, which was home to suffragette Rose Standish Nichols, and participate in tours led by museum officials that highlight the lives of Nichols and her sisters, Margaret and Marian.
Nichols was an accomplished writer, activist, and landscape architect, known specifically for her work as a suffragette. In 1915, she helped establish the Women’s League for International Peace and Freedom, an international NGO that works to promote unity among women, peace through non-violence, and gender equality.
Dr. Arthur Nichols, Rose’s father, purchased the four-story townhouse in 1915, and she inherited the property in 1935 when he died. She owned the Mount Vernon Street home for 25 years, and after her death in 1960, the house was transformed into a museum at her request, to give Bostonians insight into life at the turn of the century.
Saturday’s tours of the Nichols House Museum will run at the top of every hour, and the maximum capacity for each tour is 14 people.
