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Autumn Gathering
October 18, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
The Nye Museum will close for the season on Saturday, October 18th after its Annual Autumn Gathering Fall Festival from 12PM-4PM. This fun, free, and family-friendly event is rain-or-shine and is sure to delight visitors of all ages. A fun array of activities are planned for the Open House. Costumed tour guides will be stationed around the property including one in each room of the historic Benjamin Nye Homestead where they will interpret different aspects of Nye and East Sandwich history. Special Features include:
-Open Hearth Cooking
-Costumed Guides
-Free tours of the homestead & exhibit
-Strolling Fiddler – Amy Larkin
-Featured Guest – Yarmouth Minuteman – Colonial Reenactors
-2PM Nathaniel Freeman’s Rochester March Reenactment – A reenactment of the the start of Cape Cod’s revolution with special guests Sandwich American Legion, Sandwich Guards, Sandwich BSA
The museum complex consists of three separate historic buildings, all detailing different
facets of the Nye Family throughout the years. The Nye Homestead operates as a historic house
museum, the Old Grange Hall is a community and exhibition space, the Mill Museum interprets
the industrial history of the and old fish hatchery trails.
If you are looking for fun things to do on Cape Cod, please join us to usher in the Fall and celebrate another wonderful season of history, nature, and education at The Nye Museum.
