Cranberry Celebration Day

It’s National Cranberry Month, and we’re celebrating with fun for the whole family on the final weekend of Heritage’s main season.

• Visit a real cranberry bog – on wheels!– The Massachusetts Cranberries organization’s Traveling Bog brings live plants to Heritage, including exhibit information and the opportunity to learn about growing cranberries from an accompanying expert
• Make your own “bog in a cup” to take home – Create a miniature, contained environment to grow a cranberry vine, replicating the soil layers of a natural cranberry bog
• Dance to performances by the Cranberry Jam Big Band – This multi-piece band will play a variety of music – including favorites from Duke Ellington to Billie Eilish – at 12 pm and 1 pm
• Take part in kids’ activities – including story times, hands-on cranberry experiments, take-home cranberry craft making, and trying on waders for a fun photo op!
• Explore Hidden Hollow’s cranberry theme, A Bog’s Life – Activities that are part of this month’s theme in this outdoor discovery area include playing a game of Bog Squad charades, creatng a woven cranberry craft, preparing your own “bog” in the sand play area, and more
• Experience the Bountiful Bogs: The Massachusetts Cranberry Story exhibit – Did you know that the first cranberry farms began right here on Cape Cod? Watch historic harvest video footage, try your hand at using a real antique cranberry harvesting scoop, see a giant bottle of cranberry juice cocktail, take a photo in front of a wall of cool vintage labels, take home a vintage recipe, and more as you learn how cranberries have shaped the culture, economics, and environment of Cape Cod for hundreds of years.
• Explore artifacts from Heritage’s cranberry collection with the curator: Learn fun facts from Jennifer Madden, Heritage’s Director of Collections and Exhibitions and curator of the Bountiful Bogs exhibit, who will share artifacts from Heritage’s newly acquired cranberry history collection – the largest museum cranberry history collection in the country!
• Winners of the cranberry sauce contest will be announced at 11:30 am