Off the beaten track.
Everybody knows about the Lowell Mills, but how many recall that Waltham was once "Watch City," the U.S. center of the trade, and so efficient in fact that it awed Henry Ford. The Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation celebrates this past with exhibits on watches and clocks, textiles, a temporary exhibit entited "Virtual Kinetics, and the Art of the Image" focusing on the work of Dave Gordon, an artist who draws inspiration from Eadweard Mybridge's pioneering photos of motion.
If you go: The museum is on Moody Street in Waltham, open Thursday-Sunday, 10-5, and is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors or students. More info at www.crmi.org or by calling 781-893-5410.
Everybody knows about the Lowell Mills, but how many recall that Waltham was once "Watch City," the U.S. center of the trade, and so efficient in fact that it awed Henry Ford. The Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation celebrates this past with exhibits on watches and clocks, textiles, a temporary exhibit entited "Virtual Kinetics, and the Art of the Image" focusing on the work of Dave Gordon, an artist who draws inspiration from Eadweard Mybridge's pioneering photos of motion.
If you go: The museum is on Moody Street in Waltham, open Thursday-Sunday, 10-5, and is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors or students. More info at www.crmi.org or by calling 781-893-5410.
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