On The Rails
Relive the heyday of travel by train in Worcester. Watch model trains and trolleys as they travel across a charming recreation of Washington Square, Worcester, circa 1911. Sterling train enthusiast...
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125 Fearless Years
Celebrate 125 years of the YWCA of Central Massachusetts. This organization has been key to emporwering women, and promoting peace, justice and freedom for over a century. Come learn about...
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To Arms! Worcester County Answers the Call
To Arms! Worcester County Answers the Call is an exhibition commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War. For four years...
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The Things We Carried: Guatemalan Stories
What would you bring if you were to leave your native country and emigrate to a new land? What things would you accumulate in your new home to remind you...
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Davey’s: Worcester Originals
Davey’s: Worcester Originals will take a look at Davey's, Inc., a major producer of handbags, belts, and other leather accessories in Worcester from 1954 to 1992. Davey's handbags were sold...
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Got Food? Creating a Hunger Free Community
The exhibit Got Food? Creating a Hunger Free Community was a partnership between Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester County Food Bank and Worcester State College. It chronicled the battle to combat...
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Once Crowded Streets: Downtown Worcester
Worcester’s historic downtown is a “golden triangle” in the heart of the city, bounded east-west by Main and Summer streets, and north-south by Lincoln Square and Madison Street. The anchor...
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To Abbie With Love
“Me and the birth control pill were just about the most celebrated things ever to come out of Worcester,” Abbie wrote in his autobiography. “At one time, most folks up...
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An American Icon
Do you know who created the yellow Smiley Face? No, it wasn’t Forrest Gump.
The exhibit, An American Icon, explored the origins of the iconic yellow Smile Face and its progression...
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Best Laid Plans
On exhibit are architectural plans that date from 1869 to 1923. Known as “revival” style, these plans all borrow elements from earlier eras and incorporate them into modern structures, for...
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The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
At my touch the wild braid of creation trembles.
“The Snakes of September”
In 2005 Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006), Worcester native, turned 100 years old. He was a poet, editor, essayist and translator....
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LIFT OFF: Reaching for the Stars
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
–Robert Goddard, June 1904
LIFT OFF:Reaching for the...
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Off the Shelves: Worcester from A to Z
Off the Shelves is the name of the show.
Twenty-six things you soon will know.
Forward and backwards, either way,
from A to Z or Z to A.
Info about...
Highway of Commerce: The Blackstone Canal
Highway of Commerce: The Blackstone Canal was presented as part of the Blackstone Vallery cooridor-wide celebration of the 175th anniversary of the opening of the Blackstone Canal, the 45-mile waterway...
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Travel Postcards: "Wish You Were Here"
The Golden Age of Postcards
For most people today, the word "postcard" brings to mind a little cardboard rectangle, usually with a picturesque view on the front, scribbled...
Smiley Face
Harvey Ball (1921-2001) was born and raised in Worcester. His father operated a cigar shop at Lincoln Square near the court house, and later worked as a watchman at...
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Worcester in 1950: Through the Lens of George P. Cocaine
"As we look at George Cocaine's pictures of mid-century Worcester we see our past. For those too young to have any memory of things that George photographed, the pictures are...
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Water Street
This exhibition focused on the Eastern European Jewish immigrant in Worcester, Massachusetts, between 1880 and 1945, and illuminated the centrality of Water Street to local Jewish life during that period....
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