Included with museum admission, this exhibit is now on view in our Grange Gallery for the 2023 season through October 14, 2023! This exhibit highlights the lives of women from different time periods connectedby the Nye homestead. Here we seek to illustrate the questions:What was her life like? How did she manage family, chores, cooking ... Read more
The Nye Museum will be joining SandwichFest this year as one of the featured non-profit vendors! We are so pleased to be joining the community for this wonderful celebration sponsored by the Sandwich Chamber of Commerce. Check out our booth and stock up on items for the history lovers in your life! For more information ... Read more
As summer ends and Autumn draws near, join the Nye Museum for an afternoon of celebrating local history. Highlights will include activities for children, demonstrations, viewing on the special exhibit, guided tours of the Homestead & Mill Museum by costumed historians, and local Chariot Pizza available for purchase. This family-friendly event is free and fun ... Read more
The "Seducer of Souls", Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner, was born in the center of Sandwich, in what was then (1746) a tavern operated by her notorious-Tory father, Brig. General Timothy Ruggles. The extended family moved to central Massachusetts when Bathsheba was a child, and she married the well-off Joshua Spooner. The family lived on the Post ... Read more
FALL QUILTING RETREAT – NOVEMBER 6-9, 2023 Quilting and Quilts were a necessary tradition in our antique homesteads.Keeping with this tradition, the Nye Museum, along with quilter, Ellie Held offers 3 four-dayQUILTING RETREATS, each year at the East Sandwich Grange Hall, 91 Old County Road,East Sandwich, MA 02537 Our next retreat is November 6-9. Two ... Read more
Join Food Historian and Author, Paula Marcoux for a mouth-watering talk on historic baking titled, "Brown Bread." Learn about the evolution of this particular bread and the ovens used to bake it from the 17th - 19th centuries. This talk will conclude with samples of traditional brown bread and a walk-through of the hearth in ... Read more
