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The best Boston events in November 2024

Embrace stick season with fun things to do in New England.

Jacqueline Cain
Contributor: Tanya Edwards
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November in Boston brings shorter days, cooler temps and increasing holiday cheer with every passing day. Winter is just around the corner, so everyone wants to get outside whenever they can. (Before you know it, you'll be thinking about the best skiing spots near Boston.) Along with classic stick-season activities like checking out the best museums in Boston and planning the best Thanksgiving in the city, here's what to do this month.

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Time Out Market Boston
  • Time Out Market

Time Out is a global authority on where to eat right now, and we hand-pick restaurants to represent our cities at our food halls—in fact, we have a new Italian kitchen opening this month. But just like on our website, showcasing the best of the city under one roof goes beyond food and drink. Time Out Market Boston also hosts frequent events like pop-up markets, drag brunch, DJ nights and more. Here's an updated list about what's going on this month.

Featured Boston events in November 2024

  • Things to do
  • Exhibitions
  • Downtown

Get the gist of what it was like to be on board an ill-fated ship without leaving solid ground in Boston. An exhibit called “TITANIC: The Artifact Exhibition” has arrived in Boston, giving guests a glimpse into the lives of real Titanic crew and passengers. More than 250 artifacts from the ship are on view, as well as several carefully re-created rooms. Elsewhere in the exhibit, guests can learn about more recent Titanic-related endeavors, like protecting the wreck site for scientific analysis. The show at the Saunders Castle at Park Plaza is $40, and the attraction—which is open Wednesday–Sunday through February 2, with special holiday hours as well—is also hosting ballroom dance lessons and other events.

  • Museums
  • Art and design
  • Mission Hill
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended

It's been a spectacular year for flowers and Boston, and growing season never ends at this eclectic museum. The courtyard at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is in bloom right now with colorful chrysanthemums at their peak puffiness. Head to the Fenway palace to see the chrysanthemums in all their glory. Also: First Thursdays of each month are free admission from 3–9pm.

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  • Government Center

Sam Adams has a new collab with an NBA Champion. (Derrick) White Ale is a taproom exclusive available only in Boston beginning Friday, Nov. 15, with a very special toast at the Faneuil Hall taproom. (Read more about that here!) (Derrick) White Ale is a refreshing take on the classic style, flavored with coriander, orange, rose hips and tamarind. The 5.3% beer is a taproom exclusive available only at Sam Adams' downtown and Jamaica Plain taprooms while supplies last. It's on draft and in cans, featuring a cartoon version of the smiling guard.

  • Things to do
  • Markets and fairs
  • Seaport District

The Seaport cosplays Christmastime in Europe—with a benevolent yeti—once again when Snowport reopens for the season on November 9. A pop-up marketplace, iceless curling rink, photo backdrop and food hall from developer-organizers WS, Snowport spans a city block in the Seaport. The annual tree lighting is on December 6 and holiday festivities continue through Sunday, Dec. 29. The iceless curling lanes brighten up winter in the Seaport with free outdoor fun open through February. New this year: You can buy timed-entry tickets to skip the line on weekends. (The Holiday Market is free to all via a general-admission line.) Here's everything you need to know about Snowport 2024.

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  • Fenway/Kenmore

The holiday pop-ups are defrosting for the season! Santa's Cantina at Loco Fenway has debuted at Loco Taqueria’s Fenway location and it sets the bar high for holiday decor. The gigantic venue just off Lansdowne Street has decked the halls with more than 1,500 sparkling baubles, festive pink and green trees, decorative avocados (look for them!), a fly Santa statue and so many more holiday goodies. To pair with the vibes, a new cocktail menu has launched for the season, including Griswold Family Tree—a blend of blanco tequila, lime, agave, Pama Pomegranate Liqueur and cranberry, served in an ornament you pour yourself—and Glen Cocoa, a frozen treat with Grey Goose, chocolate liqueur. whipped cream and mini marshmallows. Special desserts are on the a la carte menu, including a peppermint-flecked chocolate Swiss roll. Santa’s Cantina supplements the typical Loco Fenway experience and continues through January.

  • Breweries
  • Kendall Sq
  • price 2 of 4
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended

Unfortunately, this season is the swan song for Cambridge Brewing Company, which will close December 20 after 35 years. Founder and owner Phil Bannatyne is retiring on his terms, his longtime business partner, brewmaster Will Meyers, previously told Time Out. Before CBC closes, why not make a reservation or just drop by for world-class beers made on the spot's small but mighty system, and wholesome pub food from the kitchen. As I chronicled in an oral history story in 2019, Cambridge Brewing Company had an outsize impact on Boston's beer scene. I'll surely miss it, so I'll be paying my respects while we still can.

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Jacqueline Cain
Editor, Time Out Boston
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  • Things to do
  • Exhibitions
  • Fenway/Kenmore

Painter Georgia O’Keeffe and sculptor Henry Moore were contemporaries who never met, but their art speaks to a similar perspective on the natural world. A new exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, reveals these connections and more ways the artists were “in conversation” with the worlds around them. Get an intimate look at both artists' workspaces with recreated studios, and see more than 150 abstract works of art that illuminate ideas like playing with scale and negative space. The new exhibit, Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore, opened last week and is here through January 20, 2025. It requires timed-entry tickets, which include general admission.

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