Brown Bag Lunch: Shipwrecks & the USS NH
This month, we welcome Cape Ann resident and scuba diver Norman "Dugie" Russell. Dugie has explored many sunken shipwrecks located off North Shore and Cape Ann, with the U.S.S. New Hampshire being one of the most significant. The U.S.S. New Hampshire was one of the last of the United States' 74-gun warships, built in 1814 […]
Silhouette Portrait Artist
Portraits In Silhouette is the combined expertise of silhouette artists and mother-daughter team, Jean Comerford and Marcella Comerford-Foley. Portraits In Silhouette is focused on bringing you original, personalized work, full of inventive detail and creative spark. The silhouettes are never produced with a digital program, copied, or traced. You can expect a genuine, hand-cut, and […]
Sleigh Bell Holiday Party
This popular event returns in honor of the Wenham Museum's 100th anniversary year! We hope you will join us for this festive affair featuring appetizers, cocktails, and a wonderful selection of handmade artisan gifts ready for the giving season. This year, we are honored to partner with a fellow nonprofit organization, ROOT, for the evening's […]
Book Signing with E.B. Goodale & Julia Denos
Meet local award-winning children's book authors and illustrator Julia Denos and E.B. Goodale! Ms. Goodale and Ms. Denos will be signing books during the Wenham Museum's Sleigh Bell Artisan Fair, including E.B. Goodale's latest illustrated book, Good Night Little Bookstore. This charming book will be a delightful addition to your library. Books are available for […]
Silhouette Portrait Artist
Portraits In Silhouette is the combined expertise of silhouette artists and mother-daughter team, Jean Comerford and Marcella Comerford-Foley. Portraits In Silhouette is focused on bringing you original, personalized work, full of inventive detail and creative spark. The silhouettes are never produced with a digital program, copied, or traced. You can expect a genuine, hand-cut, and […]
Sleigh Bell Artisan Fair
Join us for this popular holiday event! The Sleigh Bell Artisan Fair features a wonderful selection of the region's finest artisans. Shop a wonderful assortment of hand-made items perfect for gifting this season! PARTICIPATING ARTISANS Akakpo & Co. | Artfelt Creations | Biscuits N' Bows | Cocktail Couture Designs by Heidi B | Edgewood Designs […]
Winter Family Festival
Join the Hamilton-Wenham Garden Club and the Wenham Museum for their first-ever Winter Family Festival! Celebrate the season with story time, hot cocoa, and crafts inspired by nature and classic New England holiday traditions. Festival Activities - Make a birdfeeder with pinecones, sun butter, and bird seed - Create a clothespin reindeer - Cut and […]
Brown Bag Lunch: Storybook Quilts
Calling all quilters! Do not miss the wonderful story behind one of the Wenham Museum’s most beloved quilt collections, the Storybook Quilts. Each storybook quilt recreates a children’s picture book. Created by the loving and talented hands of the Common Threads Quilt Guild, formerly of Topsfield, Massachusetts, these quilts have engaged and educated countless children […]
ED THE WIZARD’S ALCHEMY LABORATORY
Ed the Wizard is back!! The Alchemy Laboratory is where Harry Potter meets real science! Alchemy Class is about to begin, and magical secrets are about to be shared! Enter the Alchemy Laboratory of Ed the Wizard. Watch, volunteer, and learn as we perform vanishes, transfigurations, and other feats of magic with everyday items found […]
SOLD OUT: THE YO-YO GUY
Join us for a performance by John Higby, the Yo-Yo Guy! He has performed his unique high-energy comedy yo-yo show in 26 countries from New Zealand to Japan, holds the world yo-yo champion title and 4 Guinness World Records. He has been featured on David Letterman, Discovery Channel’s Time Warp, Comedy Central, The Guinness World […]
SOLD OUT: YO-YO SHOW
Please note BOTH performances are SOLD OUT. Join us for a performance by John Higby, the Yo-Yo Guy! He has performed his unique high-energy comedy yo-yo show in 26 countries from New Zealand to Japan, holds the world yo-yo champion title and 4 Guinness World Records. He has been featured on David Letterman, Discovery Channel’s […]
Kids’ Countdown to NYE!
Online Sales are no longer available. Tickets are available at the door for $18 per person (adults and children ages 1 year and up) for members and nonmembers. Doors open at 10 a.m. Ring in the New Year at the Wenham Museum! With music, movement, performance, and art we will welcome 2023 in a fun […]