Garden Cart Resource Page

The Garden Discovery Carts provides visitors with the ability to engage with the gardens and outdoor exhibits through interactions with knowledgeable staff and hands-on activities. Visitors will get the chance to learn information beyond the labels and participate in deeper learning throughout the outdoor areas with the Garden Discovery Carts, helping Heritage to explore, discover, and learn together.

Heritage’s Interpretive Mission: Heritage Museums & Gardens creates interpretive experiences that engage people with the wonder of nature and our evolving American culture. Experiences related to culture, work, leisure, and life in this place and region reveal the changing relationships between human and nature today, in the past and in the future.

Carts can be found in the gardens between the hours of 11am-3pm on select days. For specific activities and carts, please ask the greeter at the entrance of the museum for details upon your arrival. Please be aware, The Garden Discovery Carts are not available every day but are usually staffed during peak visitation days.

There are two carts that will be available during the 2024 Main season:

The Wampanoag Heritage Cart: Join Heritage’s Indigenous Interpreter at the Wampanoag Stories exhibit to learn about the lifeways, culture, and traditions of the Wampanoag people, both historically and today. Visitors will get a chance to engage with reproduction objects, made by the Wampanoag, and used for hunting, fishing, and family life.

New-The Art Cart: Join our education staff in the garden to learn about ‘en plein art painting’ and create your own artwork throughout Heritage’s gorgeous gardens and landscapes. The art cart will teach about impressionist painting techniques and provide visitors with materials to create their own impressionist work and engage closely with the distinct New England landscape as connected to our Special Exhibits Gallery exhibit for 2024- Impressionist New England: Four Seasons of Color and Light.

Wampanoag Heritage Cart Resources

Bibliography:

  1. Battiste, Jaime, and Siobhan Senier. “Wampanoag.” Essay. In Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England, 429–90. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2014.
  2. Bial, Raymond. The Wampanoag. New York: Benchmark Books, 2004.
  3. “Building a Home.” Plimoth Patuxet Museums. Accessed February 22, 2022.
  4. Eldredge, Nacy. “Who Are the Wampanoag?” Plimoth Patuxet Museums. Accessed February 22, 2022.
  5. “Growing Food.” Plimoth Patuxet Museums. Accessed February 22, 2022.
  6. “How to Grow a Three Sisters Garden.” Native, May 27, 2016.
  7. Mann, Charles C. “Native Intelligence.” Smithsonian.com. Smithsonian Institution, December 1, 2005.
  8. “National Atlas. Indian Tribes, Cultures & Languages : [United States].” The Library of Congress. Accessed February 22, 2022.
  9. National Geographic Society. “Wampanoag Territory.” National Geographic Society, April 18, 2013.
  10. Sargent, Henry. “Landing of the Pilgrims.” Collections & Exhibitions, 2012. Pilgrim Hall Museum. Plymouth, MA.
  11. “Timeline.” Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. Accessed February 22, 2022.
  12. “What to Wear?” Plimoth Patuxet Museums. Accessed February 22, 2022.
  13. “What’s for Dinner?” Plimoth Patuxet Museums. Accessed February 22, 2022.
Art Cart Resources