Heritage Collection

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 [...]