Events The Rip It Ups Halloween Dance Party Ready to dance the night away this Halloween? Grab your friends and head over to the Cultural Center of Cape Cod for The Rip It Ups Halloween Dance Party on Saturday, October 31, 7:30 PM-9:30 PM! Expect a high-energy night in the Great Hall packed with roots rock, blues, and lively grooves that will keep you moving your feet. The Rip It Ups are a super fun, dynamic band with one main mission: making sure everyone has a blast! Costumes are highly encouraged but not required, so you can dress up or come as you are. Just be sure to bring your own favorite food, drinks, and your best dancing shoes! 🎟️ Tickets: $25 for Members / $30 for Non-Members To learn more and purchase tickets, visit: https://www.cultural-center.org/events-main Date and Time: Sat, Oct 31, 7:30 PM-9:30 PM Cost: $25-$30 Place: Cultural Center of Cape Cod 307 Old Main Street, South Yarmouth, MA, USA Website

Events Sins, Sips, and Secrets This October we invite you to join us for a night at the Museum. On an interactive tour, participants will visit the 1790 Dr. Francis Wicks House to hear a different story in each room of Falmouth’s nefarious and unearthly past. Using first person accounts, diaries, and newspaper records, you will hear things about the actual fears about the night, wayward travelers, and spirits in times past. During the event, drinks and appetizers will be available from 5:30pm, come enjoy libations before or after your tour and stroll our grounds, which will be lit by candlelight for the event. This is not a drop in event. Tour time is 6pm, you’re welcome to come before your tour time to enjoy a drink and please arrive in time for the tour. Meet at the Cultural Center first to check-in before the tour. $35 Museums on the Green Member/ $40 Non-member. Includes libations. Limited capacity. Max 15 people per tour. Register Here Date and Time: Thu, Oct 15, Oct 22, Oct 29, 6 PM Cost: $35-$40 Place: Falmouth Museums on the Green 55 Palmer Ave, Falmouth, MA, USA Website

Events HISTORY ON TAP: A Look Back at the Cape Cod Canal’s Bridges As the Cape Cod Maritime Museum prepares to close its Cape Cod Canal exhibit in Fall 2026, this program offers a final opportunity to explore one of the region’s most significant engineering achievements. So much of the focus today is on the future of the bridges that span the Cape Cod Canal. After all, these structures provide a vital link in this community and region. Today’s program, however, will have us looking back in time. What spanned the waterway before? How did our bridges come to be? And what was their impact? With the aid of historic images and film, we’ll explore these stories and more! U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Park Ranger Samantha Gray works at the Cape Cod Canal, where she manages the Canal’s Interpretive Services and Outreach Programs, as well as the Cape Cod Canal Visitor Center. Her work has her revealing and relating the Canal’s unique history, features and operations to thousands of people of all ages. For her work, she has been selected by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for multiple awards including regional ‘Interpreter of the Year’ and the American Recreation Coalition's ‘Legends Award’. Part of our History on Tap series—join us for an evening of local history, conversation, and craft brews. Admission: $10 per person / $5 for members Must be 21+ to sample beer; IDs will be checked at the door. Enjoy craft beer from our sponsor, Cape Cod Beer, along with cheese, crackers, water, and non-alcoholic beer options. We highly recommend reserving your tickets on our website in advance. Popular events often sell out quickly, and we cannot always accommodate walk-ins. Don’t miss out—plan and secure your spot! Date and Time: Thu, Nov 19, 5 PM-6:30 PM Cost: $5-$10 Place: Cape Cod Maritime Museum 135 South St, Hyannis, Massachusetts 02601, USA Website

Events Book Talk: Matisse at War by Christopher C. Gorham Friday, November 13, from 2:00 - 3:00 pm; includes Museum admission. Christopher C. Gorham lays out the case that Henri Matisse responded to the occupation of France in myriad artistic ways, and he was doing so while members of his family were taking on their roles in the resistance. About Matisse at War: Art and Resistance in Nazi Occupied France Winner of the 20th Annual Marfield Prize for Outstanding Writing of the Arts Matisse at War: Art, Resistance, and Revolution takes on the long-held notion that the great modernist was indifferent to the history swirling around him. In his talk, author Christopher C. Gorham lays out the case that Henri Matisse responded to the occupation of France in myriad artistic ways, and he was doing so while members of his family were taking on their roles in the resistance. Christopher C. Gorham is a lawyer, educator, and acclaimed author of MATISSE AT WAR, winner of the 20th Annual Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing, and THE CONFIDANTE, a Goodreads Choice Award finalist. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Literary Hub, History Now, and elsewhere. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, literary events, classrooms, and book club gatherings around the country. He lives in Boston, and can be found at ChristopherCGorham.com and on social media @christophercgorham. Admission to the Museum is included with your ticket, allowing you to explore all seven galleries and current exhibitions before or after the program. Cancellation Policy: A one-week advance notice is required to receive a refund. Date and Time: Fri, Nov 13, 2 PM-3 PM Cost: $18-$24 Place: Cape Cod Museum of Art 60 Hope Lane, Dennis, MA, USA Website

Museum Directory Cape Cod Military Museum Website: https://www.capecodmilitarymuseum.org/ Address: 30 Keene Street, Bourne, Massachusetts 02532 Phone: 508-888-0633 Email: joeyukna@gmail.com The Cape Cod Military Museum is dedicated to promoting an understanding and appreciation of the contributions of Americans in the conflicts of the 20th century, with an emphasis on the unique role of southeastern Massachusetts. We seek not to glorify war, but rather to honor the sacrifices of the men and women who served both at home and abroad. Our goals are: * To collect, preserve and display military memorabilia. * To educate young people and the community through displays, lectures and with living and oral histories. * To establish a military research library and archive. Hours: Mon. Closed Tue. Closed Wed. Closed Thu. Closed Fri. Closed Sat. Closed Sun. Closed 30 Keene Street, Bourne, Massachusetts 02532, USA

Museum Directory Salt Pond Visitor Center Museum Website: https://www.nps.gov/caco/planyourvisit/visitorcenters.htm Address: 50 Nauset Road, Eastham, Massachusetts 02642 Phone: 508-255-3421 Email: sue_moynihan@nps.gov Hours are 9-4:30 daily, and 9-5 beginning May 1 . Stop by the outdoor stations to ask a question or for help planning your visit. Pick up the seashore Trip Planner and brochures on trails and resource topics, check out our self-serve info boards, or ask about becoming a Junior Ranger. Drop by the The America's National Parks store at Salt Pond to browse books, maps, field guides, apparel, and other seashore-related items for sale. The visitor center grounds are open, offering dramatic views of seashore landscapes and waterscapes. In addition, there are outdoor exhibits located at many seashore sites. In the visitor center lobby, a large topographic map illustrates Cape Cod's glacial history, its position in the Gulf of Maine, and natural forces that continue to shape it. The museum in the Salt Pond Visitor Center emphasizes the cultural themes represented on Cape Cod. A new section interprets Wampanoag culture and history through artifacts, photographs and art, a partial wetu (home), and oral histories; this exhibit focuses on native peoples' uses of natural materials for food and shelter. Other themes covered in the museum include whaling, lifesaving and lighthouses, maritime industries, agricultural life, and everyday life. When you visit the museum, make sure to enjoy everything that the Visitor Center has to offer. Salt Pond Visitor Center is Cape Cod National Seashore's main visitor facility, with frequent orientation movies, a well stocked bookstore, a comprehensive museum, and restroom facilities. The indoor theatre routinely offers 5 short films daily on a rotating schedule. Offering breathtaking views of Nauset Marsh and the Atlantic beyond. The Visitor Center is also convenient to the popular 1.5 mile Nauset Marsh Trail and the Buttonbush Trail, a .25 mile multi-sensory trail that featuring a guide rope and text panels printed in large lettering and Braille, and the Nauset Bicycle Trail. Hours: Mon. 09:00 AM - 4:30 PM Tue. 09:00 AM - 4:30 PM Wed. 09:00 AM - 4:30 PM Thu. 09:00 AM - 4:30 PM Fri. 09:00 AM - 4:30 PM Sat. 09:00 AM - 4:30 PM Sun. 09:00 AM - 4:30 PM 50 Nauset Road, Eastham, MA, USA

Museum Directory Crosby Mansion Website: https://www.crosbymansion.com/ Address: 163 Crosby Lane, Brewster, Massachusetts 02631 Phone: 508- 896-1744 Email: info@crosbymansion.com The Crosby mansion in Brewster is a monument to an earlier time, a time of opulence, grandeur and painstaking craftsmanship. Standing tall on a rise of land with sweeping views of Cape Cod bay, the three-story mansion is also a monument to romance. It is the legacy of a man who went west to make his fortune and returned to the cape with a bride 20 years his junior, for whom he built the mansion called Tawasentha. Albert Crosby was born in 1823 and raised in a modest cape house in Brewster that still stands where the mansion is, as he had the mansion, in effect, wrap around his old family homestead. Albert moved to Chicago and made his fortune producing distilled alcohol. He sold this to the army during the Civil War, and sales of this non-taxed medicinal alcohol made him a wealthy man. Albert spared no expense for the three story, 35 room home overlooking the Bay. Completed in 1888, the home was named “Tawasentha”, probably after Longfellow’s poem, “Song of Hiawatha”. It was built in the grand style of Chicago’s Gold Coast Mansions and featured a 60 foot viewing tower, 15 fireplaces with imported tile, hand carved mahogany and oak walls, a parlor fashioned after one at the Palace of Versailles, an entrance duplicating one at Buckingham Palace, a two-story billiard room, marble sinks and floors in the baths, and gas lighting and heating throughout. Because of its heightened construction, the Old Colony Railroad laid a side track to the site. The mansion was designed for the lavish entertaining his young wife, Matilda, loved. Legend has it that when her soirees became too much for him, Albert would slip away to the old homestead and sit peacefully in his favorite rocking chair. The mansion’s crowning glory was a two-story 75x50 foot art gallery filled with valuable paintings and statuary, including works by Childe Hassan, El Greco, Albert Bierstadt and other famous artists. After Albert’s death in 1906 at the age of 83, Matilda opened the art gallery to the public one day a week in summer, apparently in return for the town’s not raising her taxes. The gallery was legendary, and a number of famous people were said to have visited, including the Duke of Wales, Helen Keller and Samuel Clemens. We ask for a $5.00 donation, kids under 12 are free. Hours: Mon. Closed Tue. Closed Wed. Closed Thu. Closed Fri. Closed Sat. Closed Sun. Closed 163 Crosby Lane, Brewster, MA, USA

Museum Directory Osterville Historical Society Museum Website : Osterville Historical Museum Address: 155 West Bay Road, Osterville, Massachusetts 02655 Phone: 508-428-5861 Email: OHS@OstervilleMuseum.org The museum is home to the Crosby boats. The Crosbys are America's oldest currently-active wooden boatbuilding family. Tour the 1855 Herbert F. Crosby boat shop, a 1930s Wianno Senior, and more. Step back in time to Osterville's oldest house--the 1720 Cammett House, surrounded by a Colonial-era herb garden. The 1820 Captain Jonathan Parker House features art, antiques, and the families of Osterville. A series of interconnected boat shops hosts the largest collection of wooden boats--both large and small--in Massachusetts. Gardens are maintained by the Osterville Garden Club. We are dedicated to preserving the history of the village of Osterville. Located near the charming seaside, the Museum complex sits on lovely grounds which are highlighted by an 18th century herbal garden and a 19th century ornamental garden. The Museum's permanent collection includes period decorative arts, furniture, ceramics, and a dozen full-sized wooden boats. The two-acre campus sits on a quiet street--a perfect spot to enjoy a picnic lunch or a cup of coffee with free WiFi on a sunny day. Today, Osterville is home to people of many histories and many lifestyles, and the village has been enriched by their heritages. Their stories are being preserved by the Osterville Historical Society, which was founded in 1931 by Dr. Fritz B. Talbot, a Boston pediatrician and a summer resident of the Wianno section. Five other residents were charter members, J. Milton Leonard, Genieve Leonard, Margerie Leonard, Sarah Boult, and Minnie Alien. J. Milton Leonard was elected its first president. Since 1961, thanks to the generosity of Gladys Brooks Thayer of New York and Oyster Harbors, the society has been based in the stately Capt. Jonathan Parker House, which was built in 1824. Hours: Mon. Closed Tue. Closed Wed. Closed Thu. Closed Fri. Closed Sat. Closed Sun. Closed 155 West Bay Road, Osterville, MA, USA

Museum Directory Pilgrim Monument Provincetown Museum Website: https://www.pilgrim-monument.org/ Address: 1 High Pole Hill Rd, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 02657 Phone: 508-487-1310 Email: info@pilgrim-monument.org The Pilgrim Monument was founded in 1892 as the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association—Cape Cod’s oldest not-for-profit organization. Its purpose is to commemorate the Mayflower Pilgrims’ first landing in the New World in Provincetown, in November 1620. Here the Pilgrims spent 5 weeks exploring the tip of Cape Cod, before they sailed on to Plymouth. They also drew up and signed the Mayflower Compact, which established the rule of law for the new land. The Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association built the Pilgrim Monument to honor the Pilgrims’ first landing in Provincetown. President Theodore Roosevelt laid the cornerstone in 1907. In 1910, President William Howard Taft dedicated the finished 252-foot tower. In 1910, the Cape’s first building built to house a museum opened at the base of the monument, to educate the public about Provincetown’s role in Pilgrim history and American history. Today, Millions of visitors and generations of local residents have admired and climbed the 252 foot granite Pilgrim Monument for almost 100 years. There are 166 steps and 60 ramps to the top of the 252-foot monument. Hours: Mo n. 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM Tue. Closed Wed. 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM Thu. 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM Fri. 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM Sat. 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM Sun. 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM Historic District, 1 High Pole Hill Road, Provincetown, MA, USA

Museum Directory Mashpee One Room Schoolhouse Address: 13 Great Neck Road North, Mashpee, Massachusetts 02649 Phone: 508-314-2605 Email: Richard.desorgher@gmail.com Where is Cape Cod’s Smallest Historic One-Room Schoolhouse? It is in Mashpee! This historical gem sits in the heart of Mashpee Center across from Town Hall at the intersection of Route 130 and Great Neck Road North and is open to the public, free of charge, every Monday from 11:00am – 2:00pm from Memorial Day until Indigenous People Day in October. It is the 1831 One-Room Schoolhouse. Come take a tour, learn about Mashpee history, see some of the early educational artifacts, take part in an 1850 classroom and write with your quill and ink pen and on your slate board. Originally located in South Mashpee, the historic dwelling served as a schoolhouse until 1901, as a chapel (Ockway Chapel), library and the location of important pieces of Wampanoag history with the preaching of Blind Joe Amos and William Apess. It was also the site where the Mashpee Wampanoags signed what amounted to a Declaration of Independence. They wrote “all men are born free and equal” and declared that they would act against further encroachment by white settlers; 102 Wampanoag women and men, signed that Declaration of Independence in the school- house, which later led to some basic rights for the Wampanoags to govern themselves. The schoolmaster or schoolmarm will welcome you each Monday throughout the summer to tour through this important piece of Mashpee history. So, come and visit and go back to school in early Mashpee; don’t be late, however, as for every five minutes you are late, you have to stay after school one hour. Those unable to make the Monday openings can also schedule a tour on another day by contacting schoolmaster DeSorgher at Richard.desorgher@gmail.com or by calling 508-314-2605 to work out a time for a tour. Hours: Mon. Closed Tue. Closed Wed. Closed Thu. Closed Fri. Closed Sat. Closed Sun. Closed 13 Great Neck Road North, Mashpee, MA, USA

Cape Cod Museum Trail (“CCMT”) is a 501(c)3, public non-profit organization that is both a physical journey, and digital initiative that provides a history-related prism into Cape Cod Life and Culture. Who We Are Cape Cod Museum Trail ( “CCMT” ) is a 501(c)3 , public non-profit organization that is both a physical journey, and digital initiative that provides a history-related prism into Cape Cod Life and Culture. Our mission is to support and promote the image, wellbeing and financial health of Cape Cod Museums, Cultural Centers and Art Exhibitions by creating opportunities for networking, collaboration and educational programs. In support of these, we seeks to enrich the community by providing opportunities for discovery and learning to residents and visitors. We began in October 2015 and what started modestly as a series of meetings with a few museums has evolved into a consortium of over 75+ Cape-wide institutions whose directors and staff members meet regularly and communicate digitally to develop comprehensive monthly calendars of events, story ideas and more. The vision of the Cape Cod Museum Trail seeks to strengthen and promote the important role that museums play. To educate and visibly market to residents, visitors and tourists alike, that museums are a valuable part of the wider cultural and heritage sector. They are key to both the visitor market and the cultural provision for local communities across Massachusetts providing stimulation, education and fun.

Museum Directory Bourne Historical Society Website: http://www.bournehistoricalsociety.org/ Address: 30 Keene St, Bourne, Massachusetts 02532 Phone: 508-759-8167 Email: bournehistoricalsociety@comcast.net The society was incorporated as a non-profit organization December 29, 1921, for the purpose of acquiring the site of the first trade house built in 1627, by Plymouth Colony, located on the south bank of the Manomet (Monument) River, which is now part of the Cape Cod Canal. The Pilgrims traded with the Natives and the Dutch from New Amsterdam (New York City), thus having a source of income by which their debt to the London backers of their expedition to the New World could be repaid. To stimulate interest, a historical exhibition was held and donations were received, enabling the Society to purchase the lot of land on which two cellar holes were located, marking the site of the trade house. In 1926, President Percival Lombard and Vice President Nathan Bourne Hartford uncovered the complete foundations and many interesting relics. Additional lots were purchased, bringing the total to about 12 acres. The structure existing today is a replica erected on the original foundation. With the signing of the first private commercial contract in English-speaking North America, Aptucxet became the first private commercial enterprise using a local currency known as wampum, and launched what is now the world’s leading economic force: the American Free Enterprise System. Wampum is a polished fragment of a hard-shell clam usually containing a purple color, and shaped in a cylindrical form. The local Native Americans called these clams quahogs (pronounced kwo-hogs), and making the wampum required a great amount of effort and skill. The Jonathan Bourne Historic Center is now open to the public by appointment. Please call (508) 759-8167 or email BourneHistoricalSociety@comcast.net prior to arrival. Aptucxet Trading Post Museum Complex is open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 10am - 4pm Memorial Day Weekend through Columbus Day Weekend. Special rates are available for students and pre-arranged group tours 508-759-9487. We have a turnaround for buses to drop visitors off at the Trading Post, with a parking area near the Trading Post Gift Shop. Hours: Mon. Closed Tue. Closed Wed. Closed Thu. Closed Fri. Closed Sat. Closed Sun. Closed 30 Keene Street, Bourne, MA, USA