Boston Children's Museum

This guide to the Boston Children's Museum traces the odd path of the forty-foot milk bottle on its plaza, from a 1930s ice cream stand in Taunton, Massachusetts, through decades of neglect, to a 1977 barge journey across Boston Harbor that newspapers called the Great Bottle Sail. It follows what survived that voyage and what had to be rebuilt around it. You'll hear how the same waterfront that carried the bottle home now shapes the museum's future. Look for the cap, the one original piece still up top.