Get to know the Discoverer, Founder, and Leader of Christian Science
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Mary Baker Eddy’s newly restored final residence is now open for tours, Friday through Sunday, and by appointment. We're looking forwarding to welcoming you!
Expand your perspective. Be inspired. Immerse yourself in a different chapter of Mary Baker Eddy’s remarkable story at each of the Historic Houses in Longyear’s collection. Come visit through Oct. 31!
Does the Museum’s mission—to advance “the understanding of the life and work of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer, Founder, and Leader of Christian Science”—speak to you? Longyear is currently seeking to fill a number of positions: assistant manager of historic houses, facilities manager at 400 Beacon Street, visitor services representative, historic house site manager, and others. We hope to hear from you!
In late summer, Longyear Museum took possession of a rare antiquity—a reconstructed 2,000-year-old jar from the famed caves of Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered in 1947.1 Now on display in the Museum’s Daycroft Library, the jar was donated to Longyear by longtime supporters of the Endowment for Biblical Research (EBR), Boston. The EBR…
There’s something quite refreshing about the sight and sound of a fountain, the splish-splash of cool water on stone, don’t you agree? Mary Baker Eddy certainly enjoyed an occasional respite by the burbling fountain on the grounds of Pleasant View, her home near Concord, New Hampshire.1 And, just steps from their desks and offices…
A Home for Spike, Longyear Museum’s first illustrated book targeting young readers, recently received an Honorable Mention in the New England Museum Association’s 2024 Publication Award Competition. Spike was one of only two entries to be named in the “books” category, with first place going to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts for its coffee table-style…
On her extensive travels—mainly to Europe as well as one around-the-world voyage—Museum founder Mary Beecher Longyear readily shared information about Christian Science and its teachings.1 One way she did this was by distributing copies of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, to those she met…
Inspired. Revitalized. Gobsmacked. And, above all, grateful. These are a few of the responses by recent visitors to what they are seeing and learning at the Mary Baker Eddy Historic Houses stewarded by Longyear Museum and in the company of our hospitable and knowledgeable guides. More than admiration of Longyear’s attention to detail—or what one…
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