Let’s go shopping Archives - Cambridge

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MIT Museum Store makes its missions about play and fun, with just enough school-branded merch

by Linda Given October 1, 2026

MIT's museum store is about science and the school without being boring or overly academic, and is so successful in helping fund the museum that it may expand.

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Tiny Turns Paperie grew into a browser’s paradise of puzzles, toys and games, mugs, magnets and hourglasses

by Linda Given September 24, 2026

Stationery was the focus of the store as it opened, and it remains serious about writing, but Tiny Turns grew and found room to add gifts and a miscellany of small items.

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Henry Bear’s Park is stuffed with games, books and toys (many of them also stuffed)

by Linda Given September 17, 2026

A column devoted to the many great independent shops of Somerville and Cambridge visits Henry Bear’s Park, a toy store with roots back to 1976.