May 5 – September 3, 2012 Heritage Museums & Gardens will present a major exhibition of iconic American illustrator Norman Rockwell’s work titled “Norman Rockwell: Beyond the Easel” presented by Arbella Insurance Foundation from May 5 through September 3, 2012. The exhibit is made possible in part by Bank of America, Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines [...]
May 19 – September 30, 2012 During our 2012 season, we will utilize our beautiful 100 acres of display gardens to showcase the work of contemporary regional artists. We will feature a outdoor exhibition of a powerful symbol of American culture and a significant garden design element – the garden gate. We invited regional artists to [...]
Located in a reproduction of the Round Stone Barn at Hancock Shaker Village, the Automobile Gallery features more than thirty of the finest antique American automobiles. Featured cars include a 1909 White Steam Car which was part of the first official White House automobile fleet; a 1931 Duesenberg Model J Derham Tourster that belonged to [...]
Old East Windmill The Old East Windmill, built in 1800 in Orleans, Massachusetts, served that community for 93 years grinding wheat, rye, barley and salt from the local salt works. During the Civil War the windmill also ground corn meal to be used as field rations for Union soldiers. In 1968, the windmill was sold [...]
You’ll find one of the best collections of American Folk Art in the country within this gallery including portraits, cigar-store figures, Nantucket Lightship baskets, tavern and shops signs, scrimshaw and more. Our carousel is one of the most popular attraction at Heritage Museums & Gardens. Made by Charles Looff in 1908, the antique hand-carved carousel [...]
This building is a replica of a Revolutionary War fort originally located in New Windsor, New York. The original known as “The Temple” was where George Washington’s army spent the last winter of the Revolutionary War in 1783 and where Washington awarded the first three Purple Heart military decorations. This Gallery will host special traveling [...]
April 01 – October 31, 2011 Special Exhibitions Gallery Although kitchen chores have changed from the multi-tasking of colonial and early nineteenth-century households – cooking, laundering, preserving, making soap and candles, spinning, and minding children – to common activities of today like paying bills, doing homework, entertaining, and microwaving popcorn, the kitchen remains the “heart [...]
A Bird in the Hand: The Carvings of Elmer and Cleon Crowell April 01 – October 31, 2011 Special Exhibitions Gallery This exhibition highlights Heritage’s large collection of Crowell bird carvings. As a boy in East Harwich, Elmer Crowell was interested in birds, hunting and art. He began his career by making a few carvings [...]
April 01 – October 31, 2011 Automobile Gallery From their roots in Europe in the 1880s to today, motorcycles have symbolized independence and personal freedom. The idea of linking an engine to the newly popular bicycle seems to have occurred to numerous inventors simultaneously. In a similar manner to the development of the automobile, many [...]
April 01 – December 18, 2011 American Art & Carousel Gallery Upbeat band organ music, bright lights, a spinning platform, and rows of colorfully painted horses bring to mind the joy a carousel can bring and the simple pleasures of childhood. Yet carousels also speak to a lost era in American society. In a time [...]
