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2024-03-25T14:48:47-04:00February 8th, 2022|Categories: About Heritage, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Now at Heritage|
The Carver Behind the Birds By: Amanda Wastrom, Assistant Curator A.E. Crowell. Say the name alone and it may ring a distant bell (after all, Crowell is an historic well-known Cape Cod family) but perhaps you cannot place it. For instant recognition, one must add, “you know, that famous [...]
2023-01-10T16:24:23-05:00November 9th, 2021|Categories: Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Heritage Collection, Past Exhibits|
GI JOE: America’s Favorite Military Toy Created by U.S. Army Veterans Amanda Wastrom, Assistant Curator Working on this past year’s Let’s Play! New England Toy Stories exhibition, featuring New England made toys and games, meant doing a deep dive into childhood. Many of the most successful toys of the [...]
2024-01-25T15:15:37-05:00August 9th, 2021|Categories: Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Past Exhibits|
Exhibit Spotlight: Paper Dolls Amanda Wastrom, Assistant Curator How do we decide which games and toys end up on exhibit? It’s hard! While the Let’s Play! New England Toy Stories exhibit features many well-known, classic games and toys (like Monopoly or Mr. Potato Head), we also highlighted the toymakers who [...]
2023-01-10T16:21:14-05:00July 6th, 2021|Categories: Automobiles, Current Exhibits, Exhibits, Heritage Collection|
1925 FRANKLIN SPORT RUNABOUT AND 1910 SEARS SURREY AUTO REACTIVATION One of the unique challenges that comes with curating a collection of antique automobiles is the question of driving the cars. Do you or don’t you? Heritage believes that occasional and light operation of our cars does not [...]
2024-03-26T10:47:48-04:00June 1st, 2021|Categories: Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Wampanoag|
On Exhibit April - October 2021 This year, we invite you to connect with the history of our region. For more than 12,000 years this region has been inhabited by members of the Wampanoag Tribe, or “People Of The First Light.” We are delighted to have an opportunity [...]
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 [...]
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