美国波士顿儿童博物馆的史密斯家庭海滨公园旨在让孩子们参与博物馆的编程和城市的生活。连接博物馆的新前面和木板走道和通过博物馆前面的公共海滨前走道的长椅，儿童广场创造了一个多样性和纹理的空间，旨在吸引人的心灵和感官。公园项目的发展，支持博物馆的更大的使命，是受到以下认识的启发：认识到虽然童年是个人生活中不同的和暂时的条件，许多品质最能吸引儿童的心灵和感觉是普遍和永久的。
鉴于其在远距离宣布博物馆的存在的标志性作用，胡德牛奶瓶咖啡馆被放置在新的位置，从街道更好的能见度。 40英尺高的牛奶瓶，长期作为博物馆最可识别的图标，启发了广场中的一系列元素，与差异，距离，大小和规模的感知。设计的每一个元素，从座位和铺路到独特的环境，如大理石尾矿或林地路径，都略有过大或夸大，以使小站在其看似无边的海滨环境中大胆存在。
为了保持博物馆的主动学习的总体使命，孩子们参与了绿色屋顶的种植模块的组装。
波士顿儿童博物馆广场获得2008年ASLA设计荣誉奖。

The Smith Family Waterfront Park at the Boston Children’s Museum is designed to engage children in the programming of the museum and in the life of the city. Linking the museum’s new front fa?ade and the boardwalk and benches of the public harbor-front walkway that passes in front of the museum, the children’s plaza creates a space of variety and texture meant to engage the mind and the senses. The development of the park’s program, which supports the larger mission of the museum, is inspired by the recognition that while childhood is a varied and temporary condition in the life of an individual, many of the qualities that best engage the minds and senses of children are universal and permanent.

In recognition of its iconic role in announcing the presence of the museum from a distance, the Hood Milk Bottle Café was placed in new location with better visibility from the street. The 40 foot-tall milk bottle, which has long served as the museum’s most identifiable icon, inspired a series of elements within the plaza that play with perceptions of difference, distance, size, and scale. Every element of the design, from the seating and paving to the unique environments like the marble tailings or the woodland path, is slightly oversized or overstated, to give the small site a bold presence within its seemingly boundless harborfront setting.

In keeping with the museum’s overall mission of active learning, children were involved in the assembly of the planting modules for the green roof.

The Boston Children’s Museum Plaza received a 2008 ASLA Design Honor Award.