Summer Exhibit:
Westport Is Your Oyster
Exhibit on view through October 2018
Exhibit explores important contributions–and struggles–of town’s black residents from earliest settlement to present.
Produced in community partnership with TEAM Westport, town’s diversity action committee
Remember Westport’s Enslaved Peoples
Events
Monday, June 18th, 2018 – Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
All Day
As part of the “Remembered: The History of African Americans in Westport” exhibit, WHS is memorializing the names of over 200 enslaved persons who made up an essential, but often overlooked part of our Town’s History. Each name will be inscribed permanently on a brick in our Brickwalk. Please sponsor a brick for $20 which covers cost of brick and installation at no profit to WHS. Upon the close… …Read More
New Exhibit: Westport Is Your Oyster
Events
Sunday, July 1st, 2018 – Sunday, July 29th, 2018
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Before there were hot dogs and hamburgers to liven up your Fourth of July weekend festivities, there were oysters. Oysters were the quintessential American food - especially in the estuaries and inlets of shoreline Connecticut where they grow in natural abundance. …Read More
Destination Westport: In Gatsby’s Shoes Walking Tour
Tours
Saturday, July 28th, 2018
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Imagine it's the summer of 1920. Westport is a sleepy farm community that lures New York's most glamorous couple-F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald—to its shores. …Read More
Time Travelers Summer Camp
Events
Monday, August 13th, 2018 – Friday, August 24th, 2018
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Kids, travel back in time this summer! Three special week-long sessions to dive into Westport's unique history. Come to one or all three! …Read More