Past Exhibitions

April 27 - May 12, 2013 Heritage Museums & Gardens is partnering with The Cape and Islands Workforce Investment Board (WIB) to present the 2013 ArtWorks School to Career program.  Twenty students, juniors and seniors from Cape and Islands high schools, participated in an eight-wee

  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 ex

May 19 – October 28, 2012 During the 2012 season, Heritage is utilizing the beautiful 100 acres of display gardens to showcase the work of contemporary regional artists. Heritage is featuring an outdoor exhibition of a powerful symbol of American culture and a significant garden desig

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 activiti

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.

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.

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 los