Digital Fridays
Your History is Worcester History
There are three easy steps to this FREE program:
Bring your personal photographs to a WHM “image station” for museum staff to scan
Upcoming Digital Fridays:
WHM chronicles closing churches
Worcester Historical Museum is currently documenting the histories of the Worcester Catholic churches slated to close on July 1st and the communities that have worshipped in them. The Museum is collecting and taking 
photographs of the church interiors and exteriors, as well as scanning parishioners' personal photos and recording their oral histories for the Museum's archives and permanent collection. Collecting and preserving the history of Worcester is part the mission of WHM and the Museum is becoming more engaged in active chronicling -- collecting material as history happens.
Digital Friday at WHM
July 11, 1-3 pm at Worcester Historical Museum
At this special Digital Friday, we are encouraging members of the different W
orcester-areaCatholic communities affected by the recent church closings to share their pictures with the Museum. Bring in your personal photographs of events that took place in or around one of these churches for WHM staff to scan. Take the original photos home and leave the scanned copy with us so a part of your life becomes part of the Museum's collection and of Worcester history.
WHM Family Fun
Campfire Stories:
Tales from the Valley
July 31 & August 21
6:30 - 8pm
Enjoy an evening of interesting, spooky, and unexpected Blackstone Valley tales told around a traditional National Park Service Ranger Campfire on the lawn of Worcester Historical Museum's future home, the Worcester Blackstone Visitor Center. Meet us there or take a nature walk from Broad Meadow Brook with Mass Audubon staff. Sponsored jointly by Worcester Historical Museum, John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, Mass Audubon, and Worcester Public Library. Free.
(The site of the future Worcester Blackstone Visitor Center is at the junction of Rte. 146 and McKeon Rd.)
WHM Family Fun: Trick-or-Treat Bag Decorating
October 21-24, 1-4 pm; Thurs., October 23 until 7 pm
Drop in to the Museum the week before Halloween and make a Trick-or-Treat bag for your holiday haul.
Going Out in Style Programs
Designing in Time
In this informal summer lecture series, local costume designers and curators discuss how theater and film designers depict historical fashions in thier work and how the public remembers fashions of iconic periods. All talks free with admission.
Please call 508-753-8278 for reservations.
Designing the 50s
July 17, 5:30 pm
Kurt S. Hultgren, Costume Designer, The College of the Holy Cross
Designing the 60s
July 24, 5:30 pm
Catherine Quick Spingler, Costume Designer, Clark University
Designing the 70s
August 7, 5:30 pm
Joanne Dolan Ingersoll, Curator of Costumes and Textiles, Rhode Island School of Design Museum
Designing the 80s
August 14, 5:30 pm
Katherine A. Fritz, Costume Designer, graduate of The College of the Holy Cross
What's in the Bag? A Look at the Evolving Handbag
September 11, 7:00 pm
Join Edward Maeder, Historic Deerfield's Curator of Textiles and Director of Exhibitions, for an interesting and unexpected look at the history of the handbag as it changed from an essential part of a male religious pilgrim's equipage to become today's quintessential female accessory.
Davey's Handbag Reunion
September 25 ** , 5:30 pm
Bring your Davey's handbag for a "reunion" with other Davey's owners to share stories and take a "class photo" together with your bags!
** please note this is a date change from a previously posted date
Worcester ID
Worcester ID is an interactive photo presentation in which you help museum staff identify undocumented pictures of Worcester’s past from the museum’s collection. FREE.
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