Overview & visitor information
Boston built its most beautiful playground as a memorial: Martin's Park honors Martin Richard, the eight-year-old lost in the 2013 Marathon bombing, whose photograph holding a 'No more hurting people - Peace' sign moved the world. The park answers with deliberate joy - a landscaped harbor-side terrain of climbing nets, slides built into hills, a play ship run aground in sand, water elements, and full inclusive design so children of every ability play together, exactly as the Richard family intended. It sits beside the Children's Museum on Fort Point Channel, free and open daily, making it either the pre-ticket warm-up or the post-museum decompression in this guide's Seaport family day. Parents tend to learn the story while children simply play; both are the memorial working.
