The Barbey Family Welcome Center at Heritage Museums & Gardens

Updates…

Our campus is undergoing exciting transformations in anticipation of the grand unveiling of the Barbey Family Welcome Center in 2025.

Please note that at the entry to Heritage, there are alterations in traffic routes to our parking facilities. Our dedicated security team is stationed at all entry points to assist you seamlessly, including directing you to drop-off locations and ADA parking spaces. A new access pathway along the left shoulder of the Flume Fountain lawn has been constructed and is now in the landscaping and paving phases. At the Welcome Center construction site, preparations are being made to lay the building foundations starting in early May.

As the largest cultural attraction on Cape Cod, Heritage Museums & Gardens welcomes 130,000 visitors a year to explore its exciting museum exhibits and nearly 100 acres of gardens, outdoor discovery areas, and horticultural collections.

Visitors deserve a warm greeting consistent with the excellence of the overall Heritage experience. Yet the current entry, ticketing, and retail areas were built for annual attendance of just 25,000 people. Today, these 53-year-old facilities are deteriorating, undersized, and confusing to the needs of nearly five times as many visitors. A new welcome center solution is more urgent than ever!

Heritage’s Board of Trustees and lead donors are setting the pace in a capital campaign to support the construction of the new Welcome Center entirely through philanthropy. Please join them and explore the philanthropic opportunities that are most meaningful to you.

Your support will:

• Provide a gracious welcome to Cape Cod’s premier cultural attraction.
• Replace deteriorating facilities that were not built for Heritage’s growth and today’s visitor needs.
• More than double the square footage devoted to visitor services.
• Expand retail space, including for Heritage-propagated plants.
• Reveal exciting vistas of the stunning Flume Fountain from new vantage points.
• Model and interpret renewable energy and environmentally sustainable solutions in this facility.
• Create opportunities to make memories that will last a lifetime.
• Help us open the new Welcome Center in 2025!

See Images from the Barbey Family Welcome Center Groundbreaking Ceremony – 2.7.2024

Construction Updates!

The Former Location for The Shop at Heritage Demolition.

We’ve made some great memories in this building! We hope you have as well.