Exhibits

18 09, 2025

The 1925 Rickenbacker 8 Coupe: Celebrating 100 Years

2025-09-18T11:40:25-04:00September 18th, 2025|Categories: Automobiles, Current Exhibits, Exhibits|

The 1925 Rickenbacker 8 Coupe: Celebrating 100 Years Lyric Lott, Assistant Curator The Rickenbacker Motor Company The story of this classic car begins with its equally-iconic namesake, Edward “Eddie” Rickenbacker. Born in 1890 in Columbus, Ohio, Rickenbacker gained fame as one of the first professional racecar drivers in [...]

9 09, 2025

Celebrating the New Cranberry Collection at Heritage

2025-09-10T11:32:24-04:00September 9th, 2025|Categories: Blog, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Heritage Collection|

Celebrating the New Cranberry Collection at Heritage By Jennifer Y. Madden, Director of Collections & Exhibitions Heritage Museums & Gardens has some exciting news! If you have visited us this season, you might have gotten a glimpse of our newest exhibit, Bountiful Bogs: The Massachusetts Cranberry Story. What you [...]

11 03, 2025

2025 Heritage Highlights

2025-03-11T14:44:51-04:00March 11th, 2025|Categories: Blog, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Heritage Collection|

2025 Heritage Highlights Did you know that the Heritage Museums & Gardens stewards a collection of over 18,000 objects? Containing everything from vintage cars to folk art paintings, this eclectic ensemble is the result of decades of collecting by our founders, Josephine and Josiah Kirby Lilly III. Encompassing what [...]

30 07, 2024

Cape Cod Artists of Impressionist New England

2024-07-30T11:04:30-04:00July 30th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Heritage Collection|

Cape Cod Artists of Impressionist New England By Amanda Wastrom, Curator Cape Cod has inspired painters for generations now. In the story of American Impressionism, this region plays a major role, mainly thanks to the Provincetown Art Colony. Around the early 1900s, Provincetown was a major summer destination for [...]

10 06, 2024

Baxter Pocket Watch Trade Sign

2024-07-16T14:43:11-04:00June 10th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Heritage Collection|

2024 Heritage Highlights Exhibit: John Baxter's Pocket Watch Trade Sign By Sarah Sherman Clark, Registrar/Collections Manager For centuries, businesses have used signs to advertise their trades, services, and goods. Because large portions of populations throughout history could not read, it was common to use the universal languages of illustrations, [...]

13 05, 2024

Alfred Glover in the Garden

2024-05-22T11:32:22-04:00May 13th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Current Exhibits, Exhibits, Heritage Collection|

Alfred Glover in the Garden: An Interview with Alfred Glover By Amanda Wastrom, Curator This season, we are thrilled to have Alfred Glover’s whimsical, folk-art style sculptures populating the grounds and gardens at Heritage. For over four decades, Glover has lived and worked on Cape Cod, making art in [...]

19 04, 2024

Charging Ahead

2024-05-09T11:32:16-04:00April 19th, 2024|Categories: Automobiles, Current Exhibits, Exhibits|

CHARGING AHEAD Jennifer Madden, Director of Collections and Exhibitions With the recent emphasis on the importance of electric cars, you may think that they are a recent invention. In fact, the first electric car was made in Scotland almost two hundred years ago! Of course, that vehicle was [...]

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