In 2023, nearly 100 Worcester County residents created poems about the city’s public spaces for a one-time contest sponsored by Mapping Worcester in Poetry. Submissions were judged by poet laureate Oliver de la Paz, and winners will be unveiled at this event.

MOW members, enjoy an exclusive guided introduction and private tour of the Museum’s newest exhibit, The Poem Next Door—a celebration of iconic poems rooted in Worcester neighborhoods, brought to life by the poets featured in the collage.

Adam Centamore, Boston aficionado on wine parings, will present his wine and cheese seminar and tasting—perfect for Spring and Summer outings—alongside Worcester’s wine connoisseur Jim Vasiliadis from Ohara’s Wine & Liquor.

Join Clark University Professor Mindy Marchand, and. EcoTarium Museum Educator Joann Adams for a discussion on Worcester women naturalists from 19th century to present.

How did Worcester contribute to the American dominance in both Worcester War I and II?

Retired Ranger Cuck is ready to answer your questions about the Blackstone Canal and early Worcester industries in this informal gallery presentation.

It’s a day after victory in Europe Day, 80 years ago, and we are exploring Worcester’s role in the war.

Author, historian and furniture conservator Robert Mussey will join us from Boston to offer perspectives on the taste of Elizabeth Salisbury in his lecture “As Fashionable as Boston: The Salisburys’ Furniture from Isaac Vose.”

Escape with the ethereal, other-worldly sound of the Glass Armonica, an invention of Ben Franklin!

In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote

The gallery is filled with machines. “What are they,” “how do they work,” and “what did they make?”

Walk Main Street in the footsteps of Worcester’s Revolutionaries with Bob Stacy. The tour is limited to 20 people.

Worcester Women’s History Project speaker series honors the 175th anniversary of the first National Woman’s Rights Convention of 1850. In celebration of national poetry month, two accomplished poets from the greater Worcester community will be featured.

Join Bob Stacy for a tour through Worcester’s Main Street signs and the personalities that were part of Revolutionary. Worcester. The tour is limited to 20 people.

Join Bob Stacy for a non-walking tour through Worcester’s Main Street signs and the personalities that were part of Revolutionary Worcester

Arrive curious to our informal chat sessions as our Fuller Gallery Team answer your questions.

Join us for a conversation with John Hancock and discussion of his “trunk of treason.”

Museum of Worcester members, be our guest for this exclusive Meet & Greet with John Hancock and object conservator Alisa Vignalo.

On the eighteenth of April 1775… To celebrate Worcester’s tie to the American Revolution, join author Kostya Kennedy as he discusses his just-published book, “The Ride and The Night Paul Revere Saved America.”

It's 1971 and women in Switzerland still don't have the right to vote. The ladies of a small alpine village get together to do something about it.

Join us as we welcome Amazing Women of Worcester, a coloring book featuring profiles of twenty amazing women from the city's history

In celebration of our exhibit, "Strikes, Spares and Deadwood: Candlepin Bowling," we've got a challenge for you.

Join Exhibit Coordinator Vanessa Bumpus as she takes us on a tour of the Fuller Gallery of Industrial History.

Doug Egerton, professor of history at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, N.Y., will share a detailed look at the life and impact of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

What do a baker, a tavern-keeper, an entrepreneur, a social reformer, and a murderess all have in common?  They are women from Worcester’s past! 

Seth Rockman, associate professor of history at Brown University and author tells the biggest stories of early American history

Part Two of the story of American women's fight to get the vote.