Make Way for Ducklings
Make Way for Ducklings is a sculpture by Nancy Schön, which recreates the duck family in Robert McCloskey's children's classic Make Way for Ducklings. The original set of bronze statues was installed in the Boston Public Garden in 1987, and a copy was installed in Moscow at Novodevichy Park in 1991.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Park
- Description: 1987 sculpture by Nancy Schön in Boston
- Also known as: “Make Way for Ducklings Statue”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Boston Public Garden and Headquarters House.
Boston Public Garden
Park
Photo: Bob Linsdell, CC BY 3.0.
The Public Garden, also known as Boston Public Garden, is a large park in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, adjacent to Boston Common. It is a part of the Emerald Necklace system of parks and is bounded by Charles Street and Boston Common to the east, Beacon Street and Beacon Hill to the north, Arlington Street and Back Bay to the west, and Boylston Street to the south.
Headquarters House
Museum
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William Hickling Prescott House, also known as the Headquarters House, is an historic house museum located at 55 Beacon Street on Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Back Bay-Beacon Hill and Beacon Hill.
Back Bay-Beacon Hill
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Historical heavyweights, Back Bay and Beacon Hill are some of Boston's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary.
Beacon Hill
Suburb
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Historical heavyweights, Back Bay and Beacon Hill are some of Boston's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary.
Bay Village
Neighborhood
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Bay Village is the smallest officially recognized neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. As of 2010, its population was approximately 1,312 residents living in 837 housing units, most of which are small brick rowhouses.
Make Way for Ducklings
- Category: sculpture
- Location: Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Russian—“Make Way for Ducklings” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Make Way for Ducklings Statue”
- Chinese: “讓路給小鴨子”
- Persian: “راه را برای جوجه اردکها باز کنید (مجسمه)”
- Persian: “راه را برای جوجهاردکها باز کنید”
- Portuguese: “Abra caminho para os Patinhos”
- Russian: “Дорогу утятам (Бостон)”
- Russian: “Дорогу утятам”
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Localities in the Area
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