Current Hours:

Open daily from 10:00 AM to 5:15 PM.

Groups require advanced reservations, all other visitors purchase tickets for self-guided tours at the admissions booth when you arrive.

October 5 – Restoring the Plants, Restoring the Practice with Paula Peters, 6:30-7:45 on October 5

Paula Peters will explore the deep relationship between environmental health, Indigenous knowledge, and cultural practice. Focusing on native materials such as bulrush and wampum, the talk will show how plants and shells are not simply resources, but living connections to land, water, craft, and identity. Peters will discuss how invasive species, development, and ecological imbalance threaten these traditions—and how restoration efforts to bring native plants back can help renew both the landscape and the cultural practices rooted within it.

This lecture is free to the public and can be watched online or in person at Smith Commons (5th floor), Sargent Hall, Suffolk University, 120 Tremont Street.

And stay tuned for the last lecture in our 2026 series:

October 26 – Piece by Piece: Crazy Quilting and Making Memory in 19th-Century Massachusetts with Tenesha Carter Johnson

Imagining Paul Revere’s Legacy in Poetry

Paul Revere was made famous by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, Paul Revere’s Ride, and, as part of our November 13th 2025 concert program, his life and legacy have also now been explored by Inaugural Commonwealth of Massachusetts Poet Laureate Regie Gibson in his new poem Dear Paul Revere or Forge, Shape, Shine! We are thrilled to now be able to share a recording and transcript of the poem here.