• Free First Wednesday: Grandparents Day Festival

    Celebrate Grandparents’ Day at Wenham Museum! 🎉 Make memories together on Wednesday, September 9! Enjoy FREE museum admission and spend the day exploring the galleries, creating together, and celebrating the special bond between grandparents and grandchildren. What’s happening: 🖼️ Explore the Museum’s galleries together 🎨 Get creative with hands-on crafts 🖼️ Decorate your own picture […]

  • Adult Lecture Series: “Spinning Toward Revolution: Growing Flax & Processing Linen in New England, 1764-1775

    Beginning in earnest in 1764, the importance of growing flax and processing linen in New England was one important element of revolutionary opposition to imported English textiles. Dr. Alexander will focus on women's role in this resistance using newspapers, spinning matches, and extant garments. Following the talk, join us for an opportunity to handle flax straw, comb […]

  • Adult Lecture Series: Laying their Hands to the Spindle: Women’s Spinning Protests, 1768-1770

    Women, Spinning, and Resistance: Stacey Fraser In the years leading up to the American Revolution, New England women played an important role in resisting British policies through their everyday lives and work. On August 31, 1769, forty-five women in Lexington, Massachusetts, gathered for a spinning protest—one of more than sixty such demonstrations held throughout New […]