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, [...]

Impressionist New England: Four Seasons of Color and Light By Amanda Wastrom, Curator Impressionism was my first art love. I grew up in New Hampshire, only about an hour north of Boston. My mother, a teacher and an art lover, would take me to museums in the city all [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Taylor Jones: Presidential Caricaturist By Jennifer Madden, Director of Collections & Exhibitions The biting art of caricature has been around for hundreds of years, and who makes a better target than politicians? With Presidents’ Day nearly upon us, it’s worth another look at Heritage’s collection of presidential cartoons by [...]