One of the Bureau's main goals was to create a museum: it is planned to inaugurate at the same place, a Museum, local in its nature and to contain besides the natural objects, books, pictures, charts, lantern slides, etc., whatever else is helpful in the science work of the Grammar, High and Normal Schools.

The specimens are to be attractively arranged and classified and the room open daily to children or anyone interested in such work.

[3] The Women's Education Association also helped the Science Teacher's Bureau with the planning for the children's museum in Boston.

[7] The exhibits were kept at children's eye level, used simple language, and complemented the lessons taught in school.

[15][16][17] The Computer Center at the Children's museum had a working, modified UNIX system running on a PDP-11/40 with "kidproofed" hardware and software in August 1974.

During his term, Kids Bridge, a groundbreaking exhibit on cultural diversity and racism, opened at the museum.

[22] The museum opened several important exhibits during Casagrande's term including Five Friends from Japan, access/Ability, and Boston Black: A City Connects.

The project added a 23,000-square-foot (2,100 m2), glass-walled enclosure to the front of the museum, a new theater, new exhibits, and a newly landscaped park.

[24][25][26] In early 2008 Boston Children's Museum received LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

[39] Boston Children's Museum has inspired both the Museo Pambata in Manila, Philippines, and Le Musée des Enfants in Brussels, Belgium.

Outside, a large deck overlooks the Fort Point Channel and Boston Harbor and hosts the landmark Hood Milk Bottle.

A renovated bottle was put back in place and officially re-dedicated by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino on April 20, 2007, thirty years to the day after it was moved to Children's Wharf.

[43][45] The Hood Milk Bottle was originally located on the banks of the Three Mile River on Winthrop Street (Route 44) in Taunton, Massachusetts.

It was one of the first fast-food drive-in restaurants in the United States and was built using the "Coney Island" style of architecture.