The Cup

Is there any other sporting trophy even remotely as grand?
Imagine having your name tapped into it’s silver base.
Harold Sanderson had it right when, still wet with the beer from the 1970
Bruins Cup celebration, he glanced at son Derek and said, “The Stanley Cup, sort
of a passport to immortality, eh?”

About the Curator’s Corner

Richard Johnson’s “Curator’s Corner” is where you will find videos featuring Richard and Sports Museum Executive Director, Rusty Sullivan, discussing Boston sports history, as well as blog posts written by Richard himself.

The KG Factor, Past and Present

The force of nature, the human laser beam that is Kevin Maurice Garnett had an immediate and palpable effect on not only the personnel of Boston Celtics and TD Garden, but the entire city of Boston in the autumn of 2007.

Boston’s Consummate Sportsman

It's been 58 years since the Celtics honored Walter Brown in a manner he'd have scotched had he been around to protest the raising of the retired number one banner in his honor on the night of October 17, 1964.

Happy Birthday Bob

Dr. Johnson had his dutiful devoted Boswell, likewise Jazz was the magnetic force which drew out the erudite ramblings of Whitney Balliet, Nat Hentoff, and Ralph Gleason, while politics prompted the ink stained deadline driven submissions of David Brodner, Mike Royko, Jimmy Breslin, Scotty Reston, and Molly Ivins..all talents perfectly suited to the their beats as well as to the events, and personages they helped define with their informed incisive prose.

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The Sports Museum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational institution housed in the TD Garden that has served Boston and New England for more than 40 years.

At The Sports Museum, we celebrate the character of Boston sports — the unique brand of teamwork, determination, responsibility, courage, fairness, and other qualities of character possessed by our teams and athletes that make Boston “The Greatest Sports City in America.” Equally important, we use this distinctly rich heritage to help build character in kids so that they can stand strong in the face of drugs, violence, and other dangers.