Haunted House

Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

Enter if you dare!  Our Haunted House is open Saturdays in October from 7-9pm. Entry is free but donations are gladly accepted.

Bag Lunch Series- From Plant to Fiber

Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

Speakers: Katherine Chaison, curator, and Susan Landry, textile specialist, will conduct a museum experiment of growing and processing flax. This will be fascinating. Ipswich Seniors and Members: free Non-Members: $5

Evening Lecture Series- Ipswich in the American Revolution

Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

Join Scott Jewell, middle school technology engineering teacher, lover of history and board of trustee member who will do an enthusiastic talk and presentation on the role that Ipswich played during the American Revolution. Scott’s love of history will come alive in this lecture.  

Evening Lecture Series: Contention in the Commons

Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

Speaker: Gordon Harris, Ipswich Town Historian In the commons, the early Massachusetts town adopted English institutions of land management that often predated their own experience in the mother country, reproducing […]

Bag Lunch Series: Letters Home from the Ipswich Female Seminary 1830-1837

Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

Ann Brown, historian, has found some very interesting letters in Mount Holyoke's archives, written by three seminary students: Harriet Johnson, Maria Cowles and Austa Winchell. Together they provide some interesting […]

Evening Lecture Series: Schlitz on Mt. Washington and Ski America First

Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

Speaker: Tom Blake Blake presents Christopher Young's classic 1937 movie about the misadventures of the eccentric Dr. Wolfgang Schlitz on holiday at Mt. Washington, considered to be the first American […]

Bag Lunch Series: Saving the Rooster

Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

Gordon Harris, Ipswich Town Historian The gilded weathercock at the First Church in Ipswich has graced the steeple of every church at that location since the middle of the 18th […]

Evening Lecture Series: Step into the Arctic

Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

Speaker: John Wigglesworth Join John Wigglesworth to hear the story of his recent trip to the North Pole. He joined the team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) on […]

Out of the Blue Exhibition Opening Reception

Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

Join us at the Ipswich Museum for the opening reception of our weekend pop-up, featuring Arthur Wesley Dow cyanotypes. Wine and finger foods to be provided! The exhibit will run […]

Pop-Up Exhibit of Dow Cyanotypes

Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

Come view the collection of Arthur Wesley Dow cyanotypes at the Ipswich Museum during this weekend-long pop-up.