February Vacation Art Workshop Lunar New Year
Join us at the Ipswich Museum for a vacation-week exploration of the Lunar New Year. We’ll read a festive story, learn about the traditions of the Year of the Horse, […]
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Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States
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Ships and Shipwrecks of Ipswich Bay
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesJoin town historian, Gordon Harris, who will talk about the long history of tragic shipwrecks due to dangerous storms and limited navigation. There were over 3,000 shipwrecks off the Massachusetts […]
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February Vacation Art Workshop “Who’s Who?” Exhibition
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesCome investigate our new portrait exhibition, “Who’s Who?” at the Ipswich Museum. We’ll learn about some of the past citizens of our town and look at some of the elements […]
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The Archives of Arthur Wesley Dow: Sketchbook Tour
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesJoin Ipswich Museum’s Dow Curator, Stephanie Gaskins, for an intimate look at the archives of artist Arthur Wesley Dow. Participants will have the rare opportunity to get close with Dow’s […]
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The Early Voyages of Augustine Heard
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesJoin Robert Gray, Heard descendant as he talks about his recent research on his family. During the late 1830s Augustine Heard of Ipswich composed a list of his early voyages […]
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Stop and Smell the Thyme at the Whipple House 17th Century Housewife’s Garden
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesJoe Carlin, Food historian, will review the contributions of landscape architects Arthur and Sidney Shurcliff who designed in 1955 the original Whipple House Garden. In the 1960s Isadore Smith (pseudonym […]
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Women in Ipswich History
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesGordon Harris, town historian will share stories of women in Ipswich from the first settlement to the present century. Learn about Ann Dudley Bradstreet, the first published poet, Emma Jane Mitchell Safford, a descendant of Massasoit; Jenny Slew, the first enslaved person to successfully sue for freedom, Eunice Caldwell, who returned to her hometown in […]
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The Life and Work of Arthur Wesley Dow Sunday Stroll
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesJoin Ipswich Museum’s Dow Curator, Stephanie Gaskins, for a tour of some locations in town related to Dow’s career as one of Ipswich’s most prolific and celebrated painters of the 20th century. When: Sunday April 19, 2026 2-3PM Where: The tour will depart from the Ipswich Museum parking lot at 2PM and will last 45-60 […]
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Swamp Yankee Adventures Chronicle of a Journalist in Low Orbit Around the World
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesJoin Crocker Snow Jr., journalist, author, as he takes you on a personal journey where he chronicles his life both nationally, internationally and locally. His focus has been on international affairs for public radio, TV and for the Boston Globe, World Times, The World Paper, was editor in chief of World Times and the World […]
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Ipswich in the Revolution Sunday Stroll
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesWho knew that Ipswich was in the epicenter of the American Revolution? Join Scott Jewell on a walk around town and learn about what happened here 250 years ago. When: Sunday April 26, 2026 2-3PM Where: The tour will depart from the Ipswich Museum parking lot at 2PM and will last 45-60 minutes. Cost: $10 […]
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The Dams and Bridges of Ipswich Sunday Stroll
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesWe use these bridges every day, but hardly give them a second thought as significant pieces of history. Join Scott Jewell for a walk around the town and learn about the stories the bridges and dams can tell. When: Sunday May 3, 2026 2-3PM Where: The tour will depart from the Ipswich Museum parking lot […]
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Eating Well, Living Well: Cook and Be Free
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesJoin Chef Sarah Naugler for ideas on how to eliminate kitchen nightmares and make cooking fun. She is a graduate of the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts and spent ten years working with prestigious Chefs of Boston and the North Shore. She eventually left that lifestyle and ventured into private cooking. Here her love of […]