You’ve walked Boston’s Freedom Trail, and now you can walk The Innovation Trail between Boston and Cambridge. The Innovation Trail currently features 21 stops between Government Center and Central Square, highlighting world-changing ideas that have come from our community since the American Revolution. A work in progress — historian Bob Krim has cataloged 400+ innovations from the area — The Innovation Trail already covers anesthesia, vaccines, color movies, the telephone, cameras, email, radar, guidance chips, rubber firehose, the Human Genome Project, and more. There are several opportunities for tours:
- Private guided tours are available via Cambridge Historical Tours.
- The Venture Café in Cambridge will host a free, “sneak peek” mini-tour of the Cambridge portion of The Innovation Trail on September 22, 4PM-5:30PM, in conjunction with Startup Boston Week. It will be led by Scott Kirsner, who wrote about the Innovation Trail in the Boston Globe in July. Pre-register here.
- You can sign up here for a 90-minute public tour on October 8, 10:30AM-12PM ($15), scheduled to align with the Cambridge Science Festival and starting at Toscanini’s Ice Cream (899 Main Street, Cambridge).
- Take your own self-guided tour of the trail, starting from either Boston or Cambridge, with maps and information on The Innovation Trail website.