The Boston Children's Museum has been mobbed since it unveiled its 23,000-square-foot expansion and accompanying renovation last year, so chances are good you'll arrive to find a long queue snaking from the door. Try to tough it out: Your reward is just inside, in the form of a corkscrew-shaped three-story contraption that the museum calls the New Balance Climb, and grateful parents might regard as the mother of all monkey bars.
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