2024-01-25T15:45:38-05:00May 10th, 2021|Categories: Current Exhibits, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Wampanoag|
Wampanoag Wetu Heritage is a wonderful place to connect to the past. Visitors can stroll through our beloved rhododendrons, peruse the objects in our Special Exhibitions Gallery, marvel at the cars in our Automobile Collection, and even walk the gardens around our colonial-era Wing house, first constructed circa [...]
2024-01-25T14:39:52-05:00April 22nd, 2021|Categories: Automobiles, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, News and Media, News and Press, News Video|
Hidden away in Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums and Gardens, a collection of cars traces the history of American automotive innovation, design, and aesthetics. We got a tour when Tom Gregory visited the museum as the host of Driven. You can view the collection along with Tom in the video. [...]
2023-01-10T17:22:16-05:00April 22nd, 2021|Categories: Automobiles, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Heritage Collection, News and Media, News and Press|
Every year the Heritage Museums & Gardens holds an auto show, where they bring out their collection of American Cars into the light for the public to admire & reminisce with vehicles like Gary Cooper's 1930 Model J Duesenberg, and their newest addition, the 1965 Ford Country Squire station wagon. [...]
2023-01-10T17:23:05-05:00November 17th, 2020|Categories: Current Exhibits, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Wampanoag|Tags: Current Exhibits, History, Wampanoag|
Last week was Thanksgiving, which, for many Americans, conjures images of roasted turkey, mashed potatoes and Pilgrim hats. For members of this continent’s many Indigenous tribes, it is an anniversary but not necessarily a happy one. Although the Pilgrims’ landing wasn’t the first time Europeans landed in North America, [...]
2023-10-23T16:25:31-04:00October 12th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Heritage Collection|Tags: Gravestones, Halloween, Heritage Collection|
Have you ever considered that graveyards are like outdoor museums? A walk through one will take you back in time and face to face with the people of the past. Cemeteries can reveal information about historic events, religions, lifestyles, and genealogy. The epitaphs tell us of lives cut short [...]
2024-03-25T15:11:55-04:00September 29th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Exhibits, Heritage Collection|Tags: Lets Play, Toys|
Hi, I’m Amanda, Assistant Curator here at Heritage. I was the primary researcher for the Let’s Play! exhibition, now on view in the Special Exhibition Gallery. What a fun project this has been to work on! It has been a blast learning the curious histories of some of America’s best [...]
2024-03-25T15:01:58-04:00August 24th, 2020|Categories: Automobiles, Heritage Collection|Tags: Automobile, Cars, Covair|
On Saturday, September 12th, Heritage will host a Celebration of American Automobiles. This event will highlight some of the amazing, American-made automobiles from our collection, and also pay special tribute to the 60th anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvair, one of the most forward-looking vehicles of the early 1960s. [...]
2023-01-27T10:11:37-05:00July 15th, 2020|Categories: About Heritage, Exhibits, Heritage Collection|
Visitor Favorite "Thunder" Undergoes Restoration During the heyday of the carousel as a popular form of American entertainment, from the 1890s to the 1930s, as many as 3,000 carousels were installed at amuseument parks across the country. Each carousel had one horse designated as the “lead horse,” noted [...]
2024-03-26T10:48:30-04:00July 7th, 2020|Categories: Automobiles, Heritage Collection|Tags: Automobile, Cars, Current Exhibits, Heritage Collection, History, JK Lilly|
“Collecting, like most passions, has the capacity to let you live in another world for awhile.” – Kim A. Herzinger, Ph.D.: Collector, Pushcart Prize-winning critic and writer, and faculty member at the University of Houston-Victoria July 10, 2020 is Collector Car Appreciation Day! This annual event, now in its [...]
2024-05-23T09:58:13-04:00April 29th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Gardens and Plants, Heritage Collection, Rhododendron|Tags: Dexter, Rhododendron|
Charles Owen Dexter got some bad news in 1921. At age 59, his doctor told him he didn’t have long to live. What would you do if you got news like that? If you were Charles Dexter, you’d buy some beautiful, rolling farmland on Cape Cod and start hybridizing [...]
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