Calendar of Events 

This new exhibition highlights 18th- and 19th-century Asian decorative arts and their imitations, drawn from the museum’s rich collection. The exhibition explores how Western craftsmen adapted Asian decorative arts into a design vocabulary more familiar to them and their customers, and highlights New Englanders’ own quest for these imported goods.

Special exhibition on display in the Stebbins and Frary Houses

This fall, Historic Deerfield will exhibit eye-catching 19th-century women’s fashion from its collection in two museum houses. Seen against period architecture and decorative arts, Extreme Fashion explores themes of gender, aesthetics, technology, and culture in 19th-century America.

Weekends

Learn about the fascinating process of making silk fiber into thread. Visitors can see live silkworms, reel cocoons, and enjoy the unique opportunity of painting on silk.

New! Homeschool Teen Classes

Students will learn the basics of weaving and begin a sewing project with a piece of woven cloth.

Before the pumpkin spice lattes and muffins of today, people were eating dishes made from Connecticut Field and Long Island Cheese pumpkins. Our hearth cooks will be making a variety of dishes using heirloom pumpkins and old recipes using this staple of the fall menu.

Watch Mark Shapiro craft stoneware this fall.

Experience the art of silversmithing this fall with silversmith Steve Smithers as he crafts silver items in the Parker & Russell Silversmith Shop.

See how Jennifer Lee uses white pine and ash bark to make baskets.

Our Open Hearth Cooks will prepare select dishes that are on display in the dining exhibits in the Sheldon House, Williams House, or Stebbins House. Come see “what’s cooking” and learn how these dishes were prepared in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Historic Deerfield’s forum explores the decorative arts and material culture of dining in England and early America, with a special focus on New England. The program features an impressive group of lecturers and workshop presenters who will share new insights and information on English and American dining habits and foodways, history and trade of wines, table arrangements, etiquette and deportment, New England kitchens and stoves, equipment for dining, and the availability of printed cookbooks and servants’ manuals.

Our Open Hearth Cooks will prepare select dishes that are on display in the dining exhibits in the Sheldon House, Williams House, or Stebbins House. Come see “what’s cooking” and learn how these dishes were prepared in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Learn how tin was used to make everyday household items.

Weekends

Come explore the varieties of heirloom apples grown locally. See our small cider press and try to squeeze some cider out of the heirloom apples that grow right here in Old Deerfield. Make an apple-inspired project to take home.

Our Open Hearth Cooks will prepare select dishes that are on display in the dining exhibits in the Sheldon House, Williams House, or Stebbins House. Come see “what’s cooking” and learn how these dishes were prepared in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Learn about letterpress printing from printer Carl Darrow, who will demonstrate at the Wilson Print Shop.

Our Open Hearth Cooks will prepare select dishes that are on display in the dining exhibits in the Sheldon House, Williams House, or Stebbins House. Come see “what’s cooking” and learn how these dishes were prepared in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Our Open Hearth Cooks will prepare select dishes that are on display in the dining exhibits in the Sheldon House, Williams House, or Stebbins House. Come see “what’s cooking” and learn how these dishes were prepared in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Watch Neil Muckenhoupt make wooden casks and barrels.

Our Open Hearth Cooks will prepare select dishes that are on display in the dining exhibits in the Sheldon House, Williams House, or Stebbins House. Come see “what’s cooking” and learn how these dishes were prepared in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Learn about the methods of early American medicine.

Discover the design of redware pottery, a very New England ceramic, as Rick Hamelin shows how it was created.

Our Open Hearth Cooks will prepare select dishes that are on display in the dining exhibits in the Sheldon House, Williams House, or Stebbins House. Come see “what’s cooking” and learn how these dishes were prepared in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Join Historic Deerfield President Philip Zea October 16-20, 2019 to explore the best of the Music City, including connoisseur tours of remarkable private collections, fascinating museums, historic architecture, live music, and delicious Southern cuisine.

Our Open Hearth Cooks will prepare select dishes that are on display in the dining exhibits in the Sheldon House, Williams House, or Stebbins House. Come see “what’s cooking” and learn how these dishes were prepared in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Early New England fashions were handmade, as the Oakleys will show us how dresses and shoes were made.

Join a Historic Deerfield guide for a fascinating tour of Deerfield's oldest burying ground. Meet the guide at the site at the end of Albany Road. Included with admission.

Our Open Hearth Cooks will prepare select dishes that are on display in the dining exhibits in the Sheldon House, Williams House, or Stebbins House. Come see “what’s cooking” and learn how these dishes were prepared in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Learn about letterpress printing from printer Carl Darrow, who will demonstrate at the Wilson Print Shop.

Learn how blacksmiths honed their craft with Blacksmith Rick Martin during our Historic Trades series of early American craft demonstrations.

Our Open Hearth Cooks will prepare select dishes that are on display in the dining exhibits in the Sheldon House, Williams House, or Stebbins House. Come see “what’s cooking” and learn how these dishes were prepared in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.