The Flynt Center of Early New England Life at Historic Deerfield has dramatically enhanced public access to the museum’s nationally acclaimed decorative arts collections. Set back from the village street at the edge of a pumpkin field, and in line with several 19th-century barns, the Flynt Center is fully accessible to all visitors with a dramatic entrance into a lobby that leads to exhibition galleries.
Now showing:
What’s New: Recent Acquisitions at Historic Deerfield, 2007-2008
on view through February 1, 2009.
Into the Woods: Crafting Early American Furniture
a long-term exhibition with changing elements, on view through 2013.
Engraved Powder Horns from the French and Indian War and the American Revolution: The William H. Guthman Collection
permanent.
Celebrating the Fiber Arts: The Helen Geier Flynt Textile Gallery
a permanent exhibition with changing elements.
Recent Exhibitions:
Clothes Make the Man: The Colonial Gentleman in New England
(March 29 - August 17, 2008).
Please call Historic Deerfield at (413) 775-7214 if you have any questions.
We look forward to your visit!
For the fourth year in a row, students from the PS 146 school in East Harlem, NY have chosen to visit Historic Deerfield for a hands-on lesson in Colonial American History. On June 4, more than 50 fourth-graders will trade the busy city life for a glimpse at life in Western Massachusetts.
Please join us in exploring the materials, techniques and designs of the best furniture made in early America at our woodworking symposium, November 14-16.
Heading into the summer vacation season, new attendance reports at Historic Deerfield through May show a 14 percent increase in total attendance from this point last year. And, the number of visitors has climbed 21 percent since two years ago.
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Examine one of the finest collections of early American textiles and costumes ever assembled!
View 75 powder horns that offer a wealth of documentary information about the original owners and carvers who created them.
Explore a dazzling array of masterworks by famous American cabinetmakers including Duncan Phyfe and Honoré Lannuier, Samuel McIntire, John and Thomas Seymour, and John Townsend. Included with general admission.
This collection catalogue introduces a wide range of topics pertaining to tin-glazed ceramics or delftware. Chapters organized by function rather than chronology or decoration, review the variety of delftware forms in the museum's collection, that range from posset pots to punch bowls. The book's introductory chapters explore the background of collecting delftware at Historic Deerfield, the history of delftware manufacturing, and its sale and consumption in the Connecticut River Valley.
How people in a rural area acquired objects and knowledge to improve themselves and the society in which they lived.
Distinctive in design and construction, Hadley chests are discussed in the context of life in western Massachusetts.
Changing fashion, textile technology, economics and culture as represented by the Historic Deerfield collection of quilts.
A look at the distinctive styles and techniques brought by joiners from England to the town of Windsor's early furniture.
How people in a rural area acquired objects and knowledge to improve themselves and the society in which they lived.
