Description​

We are joining forces with The Innovation Trail to bring you face-to-face with four centuries of breakthrough discoveries in science, medicine, entrepreneurship, and technology—innovations that sparked right here in Boston and Cambridge before taking off to change the world as we know it. 

From inoculations to railroad cars and subways, ice cubes to light bulbs, candy to telephones, ether to info-tech, Boston and Cambridge have been on the cutting edge since the 1600s. Walk with us in the footsteps of Alexander Graham Bell, Danny Lewin, Onesimus, Charles Davenport, and the countless other brilliant minds that have shaped our modern lives. 

The full trail covers twenty-one stops across our two cities. Visit them all with us, or stick to the Cambridge side of the river. Either choice will leave you amazed. 

Highlights

Tremont Temple (First technicolor movies)

Verizon Building (Telephone invented)

Massachusetts General Hospital (Modern Surgery)

Cambridge Sites Only, Including:

CIC (Cambridge Tech Hub)

Entrepreneur's Walk of Fame

MIT Museum

MIT Campus (Rad Lab, Media Lab, CSAIL)

Broad Institute for Genomic Research

Akamai (Inventor of streaming video)

Technology Square (Draper Labs, Moderna)

Lab Central (Former Poloroid Building)

Details

• Private Tours begin at $200.00, which covers a group of up to 10 guests for up to 90 minutes. Cambridge sites only. 

• Full trail minimum $300 and 2.5 hours. Small group tours longer than 90 minutes (the full-trail) are $135.00 per hour per guide.

• For customized tours in groups larger than 10, please contact us for pricing.

• ​​Explore the full trail: 21 sites across Cambridge and Boston (2.5 hour minimum)

• Explore just the 13 sites in Cambridge (90 minute minimum).

Add-ons

• If you're itching for more knowlege, pair this with one of our other tours: Tour of MIT, Tour of Harvard, or The Freedom Trail just to name a few! 

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• Lunch or dinner can be arranged for your corporate group through our partner restaurants in Kendall Square. Please contact us for more information.

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​We Can't...

• Unfortunately, we cannot include any “insider” tours of the tech and biotech companies in Kendall Square. The companies and laboratories in Kendall Square are active, working, and often sanitized laboratories which would have difficulty functioning if they allowed tour companies inside. If you care to arrange something directly through the companies, we would be delighted to accompany you to and from the location within the timeframe of the tour, or as needed.

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• This tour is a walking tour, and not recommended as a path for a Step-On Tour.