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2 04, 2024

2024 Heritage Highlights

2024-04-02T12:13:00-04:00April 2nd, 2024|Categories: Blog, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Heritage Collection|

2024 Heritage Highlights Exhibit: Featuring Items Important to Cape Codders By Jennifer Madden, Director of Collections & Exhibitions Recently many visitors to Heritage have been saying the same thing – they want to hear more local stories. We listened! This season the Heritage Highlights exhibit in the Art and [...]

8 02, 2024

The Barbey Welcome Center Groundbreaking

2024-12-12T14:07:20-05:00February 8th, 2024|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Hydrangea, News and Media, News and Press, Press Releases|

The Barbey Family Welcome Center Groundbreaking, February 7, 2024 Groundbreaking Ceremony Marks the Start of Construction for the New Barbey Family Welcome Center at Heritage Museums & Gardens February 8, 2024 (Sandwich, MA) -Heritage Museums & Gardens, a renowned cultural and natural destination, is embarking on an exciting [...]

8 02, 2024

Welcome Center Capital Campaign

2024-02-08T12:03:10-05:00February 8th, 2024|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Hydrangea, News and Media, News and Press, Press Releases|

Welcome Center Capital Campaign Announcement, July 12, 2023 Heritage Museums & Gardens Announces Capital Campaign for New Welcome Center July 12, 2023 (Sandwich, MA) Heritage Museums & Gardens, a beloved cultural institution known for its dedication to preserving and showcasing history and horticulture, is thrilled to announce its [...]

11 01, 2024

Creating Cape Cod Exhibit Giveaway!

2024-01-26T08:44:11-05:00January 11th, 2024|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Exhibits|

Creating Cape Cod at Home or at Work These items have all found new homes! Thank you to everyone who showed interest. As we say goodbye to the Creating Cape Cod exhibit, we have some elements that made that exhibit special that are looking for new homes. Do you [...]

23 10, 2023

Three Sister Garden: An In-Depth Look

2023-10-23T10:12:41-04:00October 23rd, 2023|Categories: About Heritage, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Now at Heritage, Wampanoag|

An In-Depth Look at Heritage’s Wampanoag-style Garden By:  Amanda Wastrom, Curator and Iris Clearwater, Senior Gardener Over hundreds of generations, Wampanoag people in this region developed a migratory cycle of living that followed the patterns of the climate and the land. They learned what resources were available and when. [...]

6 10, 2023

Creating Cape Cod Memories

2023-10-06T12:39:37-04:00October 6th, 2023|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Exhibits|

Creating Cape Cod Memories By:  You, the visitors! After two seasons we are saying goodbye to the Creating Cape Cod exhibit on Sunday! Visitors talked back to us, leaving their thoughts about their favorite Cape Cod memory, and their musings about the challenges and opportunities they see for the [...]

5 10, 2023

Volunteer Spotlight!

2024-01-09T10:54:22-05:00October 5th, 2023|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Gardens and Plants|

Volunteer Spotlight: Featuring Elliot Friend By:  Iris Clearwater, Volunteer Coordinator & Senior Gardener Upon entering the J.K. Lilly Automobile Gallery, you cannot help but marvel at how perfectly clean and well maintained the cars are, and think, Wow, who takes care of these?   You’ll also be amazed to find [...]

29 08, 2023

America II

2024-04-23T10:46:58-04:00August 29th, 2023|Categories: Blog, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Heritage Collection|

The America II Model Ship By Amanda Wastrom, Curator Every exhibit needs a showstopper. That attention-grabbing thing that stops visitors in their tracks and (ideally) inspires gasps of awe and astonishment. That’s the dream of every curator after all: lots of pointing, closer looking, and exclamations of wow! and [...]

6 07, 2023

Where Have All the Flowers Gone? And Yet Another Chapter

2023-07-06T12:23:44-04:00July 6th, 2023|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants, Hydrangea|

Where Have All the Flowers Gone – and Yet Another Chapter in 2023 Mal’s Corner – CCHS Spring 2023 Newsletter As most of you know, I do follow the weather patterns fairly closely and am especially concerned with major deviations, particularly the sudden and severe cold events with temperature [...]

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