The Discovery Center

The Discovery Center is located at 110 Old Main Street.

The Discovery Center offers a drop-in space where visitors can explore and have fun in a variety of history-themed activity areas. Children and adults alike can learn and play historic games such as Nine Men’s Morris or table-top nine pins, use their imagination to cook and eat a pretend meal in a play hearth kitchen, dress up in eighteenth-century outfits, write on a slate at a desk from a one-room schoolhouse, play with miniatures in a dollhouse, weave on a loom, and more.

The Discovery Center also features rotating educational themes and make-and-take crafts inspired by Historic Deerfield’s collections, exhibitions, and aspects of daily life in Deerfield over the centuries. Recent themes have included ceramic surface design, needlework, drawing and making pastels, chasing and repoussé on metal, almanacs and orreries, and tavern games.

All ages welcome!