Programs
Campus Tours at the Museums (May-Oct)
May 24th – October 18th, 2024
Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday
We also host historical walking tours year round. Click here for the current schedule of historical walking tours.
For special events, see below.
2022 Programs
VIRTUAL TALK: “An Atlas of Extinct Countries” with Gideon Defoe
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesCountries die. Sometimes it’s murder, sometimes it’s by accident, and sometimes it’s because they were so ludicrous, they didn’t deserve to exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip away almost unnoticed. Often the cause of death is either “got too greedy” or “Napoleon turned up.” Now and then they just hold a referendum and vote themselves out of existence.
CANCELLED-VIRTUAL TALK: “All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days” with Rebecca Donner
In 1932, Mildred Harnick began holding secret meetings in her apartment. Together, this small band of political activists wrote leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Under the cover of night, they slipped the leaflets into mailboxes, public restrooms, and phone booths around Berlin. Mildred also began helping Jews escape, plotting acts of sabotage, and recruiting more and more working class Germans to the cause. By 1940, hers was the largest underground resistance group in Berlin.
VIRTUAL TALK: “The Confidence Men” with Margalit Fox
A lawyer. A mechanic. A Ouija board. One of the greatest cons ever. But Harry Jones and Cedric Hill weren’t your typical Confidence Men. They were British officers imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during World War I.
VIRTUAL TALK: “The Nine” with Gwen Strauss
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesThe Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and […]
VIRTUAL TALK: “Stampede” with Brian Castner
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesIn 1897, the United States was mired in the worst economic depression that the country had yet endured. So when all the newspapers announced gold was to be found in […]
VIRTUAL TALK: “A Shot in the Moonlight” with Ben Montgomery
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesAfter moonrise on the cold night of January 21, 1897, a mob of twenty-five white men gathered in a patch of woods near Big Road in southwestern Simpson County, Kentucky. […]
VIRTUAL TALK: “Dress Codes” with Richard Thompson Ford
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesDress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way […]
VIRTUAL TALK: “Veritas” with Ariel Sabar
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesIn 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star religion professor at Harvard, announced a breathtaking discovery just steps from the Vatican: she'd found an ancient scrap of papyrus in which Jesus […]
CANCELLED!!!IN PERSON TALK: “A History of America in Ten Strikes” with Erik Loomis
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesA History of America in Ten Strikes―published in the wake of the teachers' strike that swept the country in 2018―challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor, unions, and American […]
VIRTUAL TALK: “Our Team” with Luke Epplin
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesIn July 1947, not even three months after Jackie Robinson debuted on the Brooklyn Dodgers, snapping the color line that had segregated Major League Baseball, Larry Doby would follow in […]
VIRTUAL TALK: “Blood and Treasure” with Tom Clavin
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesThe explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great […]
IN PERSON TALK: “Red Line” with Joby Warrick
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags, the thrilling unknown story of America’s mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of […]
IN PERSON TALK: “Coffeeland” with Augustine Sedgewick
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesThe epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world. But few […]
Grave Undertakings: A Walk through Falmouth’s Old Burying Ground
Museums on the Green 55-65 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesFrom the most respected minister to the lowliest outcast, everyone in Falmouth ended up here eventually. See their markers and hear their stories as our tour guide leads you through […]
Grave Undertakings: A Walk through Falmouth’s Old Burying Ground
Museums on the Green 55-65 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesFrom the most respected minister to the lowliest outcast, everyone in Falmouth ended up here eventually. See their markers and hear their stories as our tour guide leads you through […]
Grave Undertakings: A Walk through Falmouth’s Old Burying Ground
Museums on the Green 55-65 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesFrom the most respected minister to the lowliest outcast, everyone in Falmouth ended up here eventually. See their markers and hear their stories as our tour guide leads you through […]
Grave Undertakings: A Walk Through Falmouth’s Old Burying Ground
Old Burying Ground 10 Cemetery Lane, Falmouth, MA, United StatesFrom the most respected minister to the lowliest outcast, everyone in Falmouth ended up here eventually. See their markers and hear their stories as our tour guide leads you through […]
Harvest House Tour
Museums on the Green 55-65 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesHarvest House Tour The tour will feature seven distinctly different properties. Several historic houses on the Town Green date back to the 1700 and 1800's they tell the story of […]
Art’s Falmouth – JAZZ STROLL 2022
Museums on the Green 55-65 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesArtsFalmouth’s Jazz Stroll 2022 will be held Saturday, October 15, 2022 from 6 to 8:30 PM along Main Street and Palmer Ave in downtown Falmouth. All performances are an hour […]
Scandals, Crimes, and Disasters Walking Tours
Museums on the Green 55-65 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesAll tour participants will receive a free appetizer from Estia Greek Restaurant on Main Street, good for the night of the event. Are there ever any “things that are best […]
Sins, Sips, and Secrets
Museums on the Green 55-65 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesThis 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 […]
Scandals, Crimes, and Disasters Walking Tours
Museums on the Green 55-65 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesAll tour participants will receive a free appetizer from Estia Greek Restaurant on Main Street, good for the night of the event. Are there ever any “things that are best […]
Wicked at Wicks: A Children’s Halloween Celebration at the Falmouth Museums on the Green
Museums on the Green 55-65 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesCome down to the Falmouth Museums on the Green for a fun family Halloween event. The event will include trick-or-treating at several historic properties on our campus including the 1790 […]
The Making of an Exhibition: A Curator’s Lecture on the Charles Willson Peale exhibition at the Hammond-Harwood House Museum
Our Executive Director, Rachel Lovett, will be giving a lecture on her recent exhibition "Ambition: Charles Willson Peale in Annapolis" which she created at her former institution, the Hammond-Harwood House […]
Christmas with the Conants
Museums on the Green 55-65 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesSaturday December 10th, 2022 Tours at 3pm and 4pm This holiday season join the Falmouth Museums on the Green for a program filled with cheer, crafts, and stories of yesteryear. […]