Wenham Museum

Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun! Description: Make a photograph using only the sun. Cyanotypes use special paper to capture images of objects. Find interesting fall plants around the museum’s front lawn to create imag

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Visit Wenham Museum on the first Wednesday of the month and enjoy extended evening hours and free admission from 4 to 6 PM! Bring the whole family and explore our beloved model train gallery, vintage toy collections, and hands-on history exhibits after school or work. It’s a perfect midweek museum adventure! This month’s Free First Wednesday celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month! Join us for an evening of activities celebrating Hispanic heritage, culture, traditions, and community. Enjoy hands-on a

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun! Description: Use no-mess clay to make your own stamp and explore butter mold stamps from the collection. In colonial times, people created wooden stamps to decorate the butter they chu

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun! Description: Hunt for the most interesting plants around the Wenham Museum and create prints from them using no-mess clay. This drop-in program is held on the Museum’s front lawn, weat

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun! Description: Try out different ways of seeing pictures. Check out our kaleidoscopes and use a real stereoscope, an early camera that takes flat 2D images and makes them 3D! What kind o

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun! Description: How did people in colonial America make clothing? People used wool to make clothing, but in order to do so, they had to prepare it. Try your hand at carding wool, which us

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun! Description: What does a circus sound like? Maybe you think of roaring lions or happy children. One thing all circuses have in common is music! Using upcycled materials, visitors can m

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Have you ever wondered what is on the second floor of the Claflin-Gerrish-Richards House? Join us on Friday, October 16th, as Ipswich Town Historian, Gordon Harris, gives an introduction on First Period architecture on the North Shore. Following the introduction, we will walk through Wenham Museum’s 1662 historic house to see these architectural features in person. Gordon Harris, the Ipswich town historian for the past dozen years, maintains the Historic Ipswich website and is the coordinator fo

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun! Description: Early colonial families made pomanders in the fall and winter. A pomander is an ornament made of fruit and fragrant spices. Hang it anywhere in your house for a delicious

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun! Description: Have you ever wondered how colonial kids had fun? At this morning’s drop in program, try out the games that colonial children played: nine pins (aka modern bowling), cup-a

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun! Description: Pins are a creative way that people spread messages that are important to them. Some pins promote voting, specific issues, or things people think are important. Create a b

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🎃 Baby’s First Halloween! 🎃 Celebrate Halloween with a festive morning designed especially for little ones and their grown-ups! Dress up in your favorite costume and enjoy not-so-spooky Halloween fun throughout Wenham Museum. Halloween Sensory Play: Make your own pretend potions and explore themed sensory bins. Hands-On Crafts: Paint a mini pumpkin and decorate your own trick-or-treat bag. Family Costume Photos: Capture an adorable fall family photo in costume. Costume Parade: Show off your Hall

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun!

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun! Description: Drop in and get creative as you design and decorate your own mask. Get in the Halloween spirit and make a mask inspired by the past—or your own imagination!

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun! Description: Step back in time and try writing with a quill and ink, just as people did in Colonial New England. Create your own Halloween card while exploring what writing and communi

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The Salem Witch Trials are often remembered as a story of fear and hysteria. But who was accused—and why—was no accident. Join Dr. Elizabeth Matelski for a talk that looks at how race and gender shaped the events of 1692, revealing the hidden dynamics of power, prejudice, and inequality at play in Salem. Elizabeth Matelski, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of History at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts where she teaches classes on race, gender, and sexuality in American history. Matel

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun!

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Visit Wenham Museum on the first Wednesday of the month and enjoy extended evening hours and free admission from 4 to 6 PM! Bring the whole family and explore our beloved model train gallery, vintage toy collections, and hands-on history exhibits after school or work. It’s a perfect midweek museum adventure! This month’s Free First Wednesday celebrates Native American Heritage Month!

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun!

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun!

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun!

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun!

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun!

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun!

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Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity at Mornings at the Museum—just for little ones and their grown-ups! 🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM 🎟 Included with admission | Ages 0–5 | Registration not required Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based fun!

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