Today, you can listen to your favorite song with a few taps on your smartphone. Even if you’re a little more old-fashioned, you can have a record or CD spinning within a minute or so. However, the earliest lovers of recorded music didn’t have the luxury of such simple mechanisms. Phonograph cylinders were the earliest ...

Drop in and make your own unique card for the sweethearts in your life with a Westport Museum Vintage Valentine Cupid Kit. Each kit includes vintage-themed supplies to create your very own antique-styled greeting cards, a goose feather to make a quill pen and a link to our YouTube tutorial on quill cutting as well ...

Join author Will Mackintosh to discuss Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture (New York University Press, 2019). Learn how trends and cultural movements shaped the tourism industry as we know it through the years.  Mackintosh is an author and associate professor of history at the University of Mary Washington in ...

Anyone from Connecticut is familiar with the everlasting struggle between Patriots and Giants fans, but imagine if Westport had its very own team? Well, it once did! In the first half of the twentieth century, Westport, and Fairfield County more broadly, was home to a thriving semi-professional football community. Among those teams stood the Westport Owls, ...

Calling all trivia afficionados, fun-fact fiends, and scholars of esoteric information! Come to the Westport Museum’s first Trivia Night! Enjoy a night of challenging questions with your friends as you battle to prove your group are the trivia masters of Westport.  Not just a night for history experts. In addition to some general history trivia, ...

Calling all seniors! Have you ever wanted the opportunity to learn more about Connecticut history with local museum professionals? Our upcoming online course through the University of Connecticut Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) is the perfect chance to expand your regional knowledge. OLLI provides low-cost adult-education for those 50+.  This OLLI course explores notable events ...

Alexandra Lally Peters, Historian, Curator and Collector of Samplers Alexandra will talk about needlework samplers. Alexandra Lally Peters is a sampler collector and historian who first encountered a schoolgirl sampler that she could buy forty years ago. She lives in New York City and in Sharon, CT, with a lot of samplers that explain so much about ...

Join the Westport Museum for a Cultural Fellowship celebrating Spring holidays!  This free event celebrates the many different traditions that are not only celebrated here in Westport, but across the world. Come enjoy cultural crafts, live music, yummy treats, and fun activities, all while learning a little more about the rich cultures that have found ...

Help us preserve history!  Transcribe the Past, Shape the Future  Can you read script? Then join Westport Museum for our Women’s History Transcription Day and take part in preserving untold stories.  Work with original documents that shed light on women’s history, including the papers of Sigrid Schultz, WWII journalist; Dorothy Adams, Westport educator; and Rose ...