Martha’s Vineyard Museum

Remember your visit to the Martha’s Vineyard Museum with a simple souvenir you get to make yourself! Free with museum admission. Best for ages 3+. No pre-registration required. 

In conjunction with the Museum's exhibition Tomorrow's History: 175 Years of the Vineyard Gazette, this program series takes a deep dive into some of the Island's most compelling stories. Join Museum colleagues and friends as they explore a different topic each week, offering deeper insight into our Island's rich history. Using the Vineyard Gazette's coverage as a window onto the summer of 1974, MV Museum Research Librarian Bow Van Riper will go behind the scenes of Jaws, the blockbuster film…

MVM is excited to welcome the Dock Dance Band for an evening of music in the Bodman Courtyard. Miguel Samuel and Bailey Mae Gardener will open for the Dock Dance Band.  Dock Dance Band is composed of frontman Adam Petkus, guitarist Niko Ewing, drummer Jamie Green, bassist Alex Karalekas, and guitarist John Stanwood. What started ten years ago as a loose-knit group of musicians playing outside at Edgartown Memorial Wharf, has since turned into a full-fledged band complete with original…

Pass some time the way Vineyard children did in years gone by - playing in the garden! Try a variety of toys and amusements from centuries ago in the Cooke House Legacy Gardens. Free to all. No pre-registration required. Weather permitting. 

Visit the newly planted kitchen garden area of the Cooke House Legacy Gardens and enjoy a variety of family-friendly activities. Each Friday from 10am-noon, you can make a museum memory to take home, explore the garden with our Connect the Dots tour, and watch an interactive historic craft demonstration (craft changes weekly). All ages welcome! Weather permitting. $5 for members, $10 for non-members; family cap of $15. No pre-registration required. Cash only. 

Remember your visit to the Martha’s Vineyard Museum with a simple souvenir you get to make yourself! Free with museum admission. Best for ages 3+. No pre-registration required. 

In conjunction with the Museum's exhibition Tomorrow's History: 175 Years of the Vineyard Gazette, this program series takes a deep dive into some of the Island's most compelling stories. Join Museum colleagues and friends as they explore a different topic each week, offering deeper insight into our Island's rich history. Not everything makes the history books. Chief Curator Bonnie Stacy will dive into some of the more obscure, and possibly outrageous, stories hiding in plain sight in old issues of…

Pass some time the way Vineyard children did in years gone by - playing in the garden! Try a variety of toys and amusements from centuries ago in the Cooke House Legacy Gardens. Free to all. No pre-registration required. Weather permitting. 

Visit the newly planted kitchen garden area of the Cooke House Legacy Gardens and enjoy a variety of family-friendly activities. Each Friday from 10am-noon, you can make a museum memory to take home, explore the garden with our Connect the Dots tour, and watch an interactive historic craft demonstration (craft changes weekly). All ages welcome! Weather permitting. $5 for members, $10 for non-members; family cap of $15. No pre-registration required. Cash only. 

Do you enjoy working with your hands and learning something new? Our new mini-workshop series is a great way for older kids to try out different exhibit-inspired crafts. Each class lasts two hours and gives participants a bit of the museum and a lot of crafting! Games and amusements in the past were cleverly designed to teach the player something while still being fun. The “three graces” were a popular lawn game that helped with hand-eye coordination and developing “graceful”…

Remember your visit to the Martha’s Vineyard Museum with a simple souvenir you get to make yourself! Free with museum admission. Best for ages 3+. No pre-registration required. 

In conjunction with the Museum's exhibition Tomorrow's History: 175 Years of the Vineyard Gazette, this program series takes a deep dive into some of the Island's most compelling stories. Join Museum colleagues and friends as they explore a different topic each week, offering deeper insight into our Island's rich history. Today we aim to protect them, but not long ago we were whale hunters, crossing the world's oceans to chase them down. At its peak in the 19th century, whaling…

Pass some time the way Vineyard children did in years gone by - playing in the garden! Try a variety of toys and amusements from centuries ago in the Cooke House Legacy Gardens. Free to all. No pre-registration required. Weather permitting. 

Visit the newly planted kitchen garden area of the Cooke House Legacy Gardens and enjoy a variety of family-friendly activities. Each Friday from 10am-noon, you can make a museum memory to take home, explore the garden with our Connect the Dots tour, and watch an interactive historic craft demonstration (craft changes weekly). All ages welcome! Weather permitting. $5 for members, $10 for non-members; family cap of $15. No pre-registration required. Cash only. 

Do you enjoy working with your hands and learning something new? Our new mini-workshop series is a great way for older kids to try out different exhibit-inspired crafts. Each class lasts two hours and gives participants a bit of the museum and a lot of crafting! Fashionable cottages in Oak Bluffs famously illuminate their porches with stunning Japanese lanterns every summer. Visit the exhibits to see beautiful original lanterns for inspiration, then return to the classroom to make your own…

Remember your visit to the Martha’s Vineyard Museum with a simple souvenir you get to make yourself! Free with museum admission. Best for ages 3+. No pre-registration required. 

In conjunction with the Museum's exhibition Tomorrow's History: 175 Years of the Vineyard Gazette, this program series takes a deep dive into some of the Island's most compelling stories. Join Museum colleagues and friends as they explore a different topic each week, offering deeper insight into our Island's rich history. Just how many presidents have visited the Island? Join Vineyard Gazette Archivist and Librarian Hillary Wallcox as she explores the history of visiting First Families, their experiences here, and the…

Pass some time the way Vineyard children did in years gone by - playing in the garden! Try a variety of toys and amusements from centuries ago in the Cooke House Legacy Gardens. Free to all. No pre-registration required. Weather permitting. 

Visit the newly planted kitchen garden area of the Cooke House Legacy Gardens and enjoy a variety of family-friendly activities. Each Friday from 10am-noon, you can make a museum memory to take home, explore the garden with our Connect the Dots tour, and watch an interactive historic craft demonstration (craft changes weekly). All ages welcome! Weather permitting. $5 for members, $10 for non-members; family cap of $15. No pre-registration required. Cash only. 

Remember your visit to the Martha’s Vineyard Museum with a simple souvenir you get to make yourself! Free with museum admission. Best for ages 3+. No pre-registration required. 

MVM is delighted to welcome Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish for an evening of music in the Bodman Courtyard! Formed in 1991, the band has evolved through many incarnations, three Tone Cool and three self-produced CDs, trips around the world as far as South Africa and Norway, and mostly the joys of playing a lot of music on Martha’s Vineyard where the band lives. Johnny Hoy juggles a full life where he takes advantage of his many skills including stone…

Pass some time the way Vineyard children did in years gone by - playing in the garden! Try a variety of toys and amusements from centuries ago in the Cooke House Legacy Gardens. Free to all. No pre-registration required. Weather permitting. 

Visit the newly planted kitchen garden area of the Cooke House Legacy Gardens and enjoy a variety of family-friendly activities. Each Friday from 10am-noon, you can make a museum memory to take home, explore the garden with our Connect the Dots tour, and watch an interactive historic craft demonstration (craft changes weekly). All ages welcome! Weather permitting. $5 for members, $10 for non-members; family cap of $15. No pre-registration required. Cash only. 

Remember your visit to the Martha’s Vineyard Museum with a simple souvenir you get to make yourself! Free with museum admission. Best for ages 3+. No pre-registration required. 

In conjunction with the Museum's exhibition Tomorrow's History: 175 Years of the Vineyard Gazette, this program series takes a deep dive into some of the Island's most compelling stories. Join Museum colleagues and friends as they explore a different topic each week, offering deeper insight into our Island's rich history. Charles and his wife Henrietta opened Shearer Cottage in Oak Bluffs in 1912, one of the first on the Island to welcome African American guests. It became a favorite retreat…

Pass some time the way Vineyard children did in years gone by - playing in the garden! Try a variety of toys and amusements from centuries ago in the Cooke House Legacy Gardens. Free to all. No pre-registration required. Weather permitting. 

Visit the newly planted kitchen garden area of the Cooke House Legacy Gardens and enjoy a variety of family-friendly activities. Each Friday from 10am-noon, you can make a museum memory to take home, explore the garden with our Connect the Dots tour, and watch an interactive historic craft demonstration (craft changes weekly). All ages welcome! Weather permitting. $5 for members, $10 for non-members; family cap of $15. No pre-registration required. Cash only. 

Museum Day is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity hosted by Smithsonian magazine. Participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide free entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket. MVM is thrilled to participate in Museum Day this year and will be offering free admission to those participating in the program. To learn more and to purchase your ticket when they go on sale August 18th, visit smithsonianmag.com/museumday.