Martha’s Vineyard Museum

The old cemeteries of Martha’s Vineyard are full of beautiful and unique gravestones commemorating Islanders of the past. What’s the significance of the urn or the rising sun? Why are some stones legible and others not? And what about those strange poems? Join special guest tour guide Liz Villard, Edgartown Cemetery Commissioner, to explore three of her favorite graveyards and let the stones speak for themselves on these historic and decidedly not-spooky walking tours. Friday, October 15: Old Westside Cemetery,…

Join appraisers from Skinner, Inc. who will evaluate your prized objects in this exciting one-day-only event. Items may be consigned for sale by Skinner with a portion of the proceeds to benefit the Museum.  Reservations required. Call 508-627-4441 ext. 127 to reserve your slot. Appraisal of one item $15, three items $40. Appraisal Day is fully booked. We appreciate your interest!

Join YogiJay (Jason Mazar-Kelly) every Sunday at the MV Museum for a fun-filled morning of outdoor yoga accessible to all levels. This weekly event is a great way to connect with the community and enjoy a sweet practice of movement, meditation, and breath in one of the most beautiful spots on the island. To register, click here.

If you’ve ever wanted to dig deep into the story of this island with the help of an expert guide, this eight-week MVM Education Intensive is the perfect place to begin. The course includes readings, slides, and video-recorded lecture materials for you to study at your own pace before the weekly group meeting with instructor Bow Van Riper, MVM Research Librarian. The in-person sessions will include discussion, artifact study, gallery visits, and more! Enrollment fee provides access to all online…

The old cemeteries of Martha’s Vineyard are full of beautiful and unique gravestones commemorating Islanders of the past. What’s the significance of the urn or the rising sun? Why are some stones legible and others not? And what about those strange poems? Join special guest tour guide Liz Villard, Edgartown Cemetery Commissioner, to explore three of her favorite graveyards and let the stones speak for themselves on these historic and decidedly not-spooky walking tours. Friday, October 15: Old Westside Cemetery,…

Join YogiJay (Jason Mazar-Kelly) every Sunday at the MV Museum for a fun-filled morning of outdoor yoga accessible to all levels. This weekly event is a great way to connect with the community and enjoy a sweet practice of movement, meditation, and breath in one of the most beautiful spots on the island. To register, click here.

If you’ve ever wanted to dig deep into the story of this island with the help of an expert guide, this eight-week MVM Education Intensive is the perfect place to begin. The course includes readings, slides, and video-recorded lecture materials for you to study at your own pace before the weekly group meeting with instructor Bow Van Riper, MVM Research Librarian. The in-person sessions will include discussion, artifact study, gallery visits, and more! Enrollment fee provides access to all online…

The Museum’s archives hold thousands of documents, postcards, maps, photographs, and other ephemera, safely housed in climate-controlled storage, with only a few examples used in temporary exhibitions. The stories they tell are the stories of Martha’s Vineyard: nuanced, complicated, romantic, colorful, and challenging. Join MVM Research Librarian Bow Van Riper as he takes you behind the scenes and introduces artifacts that seldom see the light of day and the fascinating stories that they hold. Free and open to all. Click…

If you’ve ever wanted to dig deep into the story of this island with the help of an expert guide, this eight-week MVM Education Intensive is the perfect place to begin. The course includes readings, slides, and video-recorded lecture materials for you to study at your own pace before the weekly group meeting with instructor Bow Van Riper, MVM Research Librarian. The in-person sessions will include discussion, artifact study, gallery visits, and more! Enrollment fee provides access to all online…

Even with the rise of digital photography, most of us have old photos somewhere - maybe in albums, maybe on the fridge, maybe still in the paper sleeves from the photo center. But is that really the best thing for them? Join MVM curatorial staff for a drop-in primer on how to handle and digitize your photographs, old documents, and other family heirlooms so that they will last for generations to come. A scanning station will be available if you…

Even with the rise of digital photography, most of us have old photos somewhere - maybe in albums, maybe on the fridge, maybe still in the paper sleeves from the photo center. But is that really the best thing for them? Join MVM curatorial staff for a drop-in primer on how to handle and digitize your photographs, old documents, and other family heirlooms so that they will last for generations to come. A scanning station will be available if you…

If you’ve ever wanted to dig deep into the story of this island with the help of an expert guide, this eight-week MVM Education Intensive is the perfect place to begin. The course includes readings, slides, and video-recorded lecture materials for you to study at your own pace before the weekly group meeting with instructor Bow Van Riper, MVM Research Librarian. The in-person sessions will include discussion, artifact study, gallery visits, and more! Enrollment fee provides access to all online…

The Museum’s archives hold thousands of documents, postcards, maps, photographs, and other ephemera, safely housed in climate-controlled storage, with only a few examples used in temporary exhibitions. The stories they tell are the stories of Martha’s Vineyard: nuanced, complicated, romantic, colorful, and challenging. Join MVM Research Librarian Bow Van Riper as he takes you behind the scenes and introduces artifacts that seldom see the light of day and the fascinating stories that they hold. Free and open to all. Click…

The history of Martha’s Vineyard has unfolded over thousands of years, across hundreds of square miles of land and sea, and in dozens of communities across the Island. It is not a single story, but many interwoven stories. Inspired by the MVM’s exhibition One Island, Many Stories, each episode of this monthly program will feature Research Librarian Bow Van Riper in conversation with a different member of our Island community whose work engages with one of the exhibition’s themes: escaping,…