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Nestled in Harvard Square, Hotel Veritas is your gateway to Cambridge's cultural gems. Year-round, this lively area hosts events like Oktoberfest, Mayfair festivals, book readings, dinners, and music performances. Harvard Square is also home to renowned cultural and intellectual sites in art, music, history, and philosophy. Our boutique hotel, steps from Harvard University, offers easy access to this academic world with ivy-covered walls and historic buildings. You'll also find top dining, theaters, museums, and businesses nearby. With chic ambiance, top-notch amenities, and a prime Boston-adjacent location, Hotel Veritas is your ideal base for exploring this captivating city. Reserve your room today through our office or our convenient booking engine.

THEATER, DANCE & MUSIC

Within a few blocks of Hotel Veritas, our guests have access to a broad spectrum of performances from 15th century polyphony to 21st century “game-changing” theater.

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MUSEUMS & ATTRACTIONS

Explore diverse museums near Harvard Square, from art at the Harvard Art Museums to history at the Peabody Museum.

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Theater, dance and music

American Repertory Theatre

The American Repertory Theatre seeks to expand the boundaries of theatre, exploiting texts from across cultures and ages.

Club Passim

Club Passim, a non-profit music center, is devoted to the cultivation and preservation of folk music.

Jose Mate’s Ballet Theater

Housed in the glorious Old Cambridge Baptist Church, the performing company regularly presents new and classical ballet performances at its newly renovated Sanctuary Theatre.

OBERON

OBERON is the American Repertory Theatre’s theatrical club space.

Revels

Founded in 1971 by musician, educator, and author John Langstaff to celebrate the seasons in performance through the power of traditional art.

Harvard Film Archives

The Harvard Film Archive offers a public cinematheque program, presenting films Friday through Monday nights year round.

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Housed in the only building on the North American continent designed by the famous French architect Le Corbusier, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts hosts a prestigious lecture series and a variety of exhibits.

Hasty Pudding Theatricals

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals have presented their unique brand of student-written theater every year since 1844, the only exceptions being for World Wars I and II.

Museums and attractions

Harvard Art Museum

The Harvard Art Museum is one of the world’s leading arts institutions, comprising three museums (Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum) and four research centers (Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, Harvard Art Museum Archives, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, Turkey).

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

The Peabody Museum is among the oldest archaeological and ethnographic museums in the world with one of the finest collections of cultural history found anywhere.

Harvard Museum of Natural History

The Harvard Museum of Natural History was established in 1998 as the public face of three research museums: the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Harvard University Herbaria, and the Mineralogical and Geological Museum. Presenting the incomparable collections of these parent museums and the research of scientists across the University.

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