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Past Exhibitions
Henson and his characters Photo by John E. Barrett, courtesy of The Jim Henson Company. Kermit the Frog © The Muppets Studio, LLC. 

Jim Henson's Fantastic World
April 3-June 27, 2010

Freemasonry Unmasked!:

Freemasonry Unmasked!: Anti-Masonic Collections in the Van Gorden-Williams Library and Archives
October 3, 2009-May 15, 2010

For All Time: Clocks and Watches from the National Heritage Museum 

For All Time: Clocks and Watches from the National Heritage Museum
August 15, 2009-February 21, 2010

  Prayer-Rag-Flag Honoring the American Soldier
October 24, 2009-January 10, 2010
Post-War radios ready, 1945 unknown photographer courtesy national archives  The Way We Worked:
Photographs from the National Archives
June 6, 2009-January 3, 2010
Grand lodge of masons in massachusetts punch bowl  The Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts:
Celebrating 275 Years of Brotherhood 
 
March 22, 2008-October 25, 2009
Hartwell house Realizing the Vision: Minute Man National Historical Park Turns 50
April 11 through October 18, 2009
penny A Penny for Your Thoughts: Postcards from the Golden Age, 1898 -1918
January 31 through September 20, 2009

Keepers of tradition. - large vejigante mascara, 2007. angel sánchez ortiz, holyoke, massachusetts.courtesy of national heritage museum and massachusetts cultural council. photography by jason dowdle Keepers of Tradition: Art and Folk Heritage in Massachusetts
May 18, 2008 through June 7, 2009

Visualizing brotherhood: masonic and fraternal printsaugust 16, 2008-april 5, 2009 Augustus Frederick Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920
October 11, 2008 through April 26, 2009

Visualizing brotherhood: masonic and fraternal printsaugust 16, 2008-april 5, 2009 Visualizing Brotherhood: Masonic and Fraternal Prints
August 16, 2008-April 5, 2009

Valentines from the kalman collection, 1910-1920     870 strobridge and company, cincinnatie, ohio, national heritage museum, special acquisitions fund, 78.74.18 Valentines from the Kalman Collection, 1910-1920
January 31 through March 8, 2009

Time in the u.s.a.: illustrated american sheet music, 1917-1924 There'll Be a Hot Time in the U.S.A.: Illustrated American Sheet Music, 1917-1924
June 21 through January 25, 2009

Boston close up: windows on a new century Remember Me: Highlights from
the National Heritage Museum
December 1, 2007-September 1, 2008

Boston close up: windows on a new century Boston Close Up: Windows on a New Century
February 16-August 10, 2008
To fly to the
            aid of humanity: benjamin franklin and the lodge of nine sisters To Fly to the Aid of Humanity: Benjamin Franklin and the Lodge of Nine Sisters
December 15, 2007-June 15, 2008
Raymond loewy: designs for a consumer culture Raymond Loewy:
Designs for a Consumer Culture

October 13, 2007 - March 23, 2008
Fins, wings and other such things: photos from the polaroid collections Fins, Wings and Other Such Things:
Photos from the Polaroid Collections

August 18, 2007 - February 10, 2008
To Build and Sustain:
Freemasons in American Community

Closed January 2, 2008
Unlocking the Code:
Masonic and Fraternal Aprons

June 30 - December 9, 2007
Pets in America:
The Story of Our Lives with Animals at Home

March 31 - October 14, 2007
The Art of the Needle:
Masterpiece Quilts from the Shelburne Museum

May 26 - September 9, 2007
For Every Fighter A Woman Worker:
World War I Posters

January 13, 2007 - August 12, 2007
19th Century Patents and Their Inventors
Open through June 19, 2007
Handled with Care
November 18, 2006 - April 22, 2007
Journey Out of Darkness 

Click here to see the on-line exhibition
  In-Motion:  The African-American Migration Experience
October 14, 2006 - February 25, 2007 
  American Visions of Liberty and Freedom
July 1, 2006 - October 15, 2006
  Gershwin to Gillespie: Portraits
in American Music
April 15, 2006 - September 17, 2006
  Picturing What Matters:
An Offering of Photographs from

the George Eastman House Collection
February 4, 2006 - May 21, 2006
   Teenage Hoboes in the Great Depression:
Materials from the Uys Family Collection 

Click to view the exhibition online
  Blue Monday:
Doing Laundry in America
July 30, 2005 - March 4, 2006
  September 11:
Bearing Witness to History
September 11, 2005 - January 1, 2006
  Old Glory: July 1942 Magazine Covers
May 28 - December 11, 2005
Memories of World War II:
Photographs from the Archives of the Associated Press

May 28 - August 7, 2005
  The Western Pursuit of the American Dream:
Selections from the Collection of Kenneth W. Rendell

July 17, 2004 - April 24, 2005
Close-Up in Black
African American Film Posters

November 1, 2003 - January 4, 2004
Revere's Ride and Longfellow's Legend
January 29 - June 26, 2005
George Washington
Freemason and Founding Father

February 19 - June 12, 2005
Deep Inside the Blues:
Photographs by Margo Cooper

December 18, 2004 - June 5, 2005
A Changing World
New England in the Photographs of Verner Reed
1950 - 1972

August 21, 2004 - January 2, 2005
Lunch Box Memories
March 6 - July 18, 2004
Hatch Show Print's Rock 'n' Roll Posters
December 19, 2003 - June 13, 2004
Artist to Icon:
Early Photographs of Elvis, Dylan and The Beatles

January 31 - June 6, 2004
Coming Up on the Season
Migrant Farmworks in the Northeast

August 16, 2003 - February 1, 2004
Fight or Buy Bonds
War Loan Posters from the Two World Wars

July 12 - December 14, 2003
New England Neon
April 12 - September 16, 2003
North and South
Berenice Abbott's U.S. Route 1

February 15 - July 13, 2003
Enterprising Women
250 Years of American Business

October 5, 2002 - February 23, 2003
Kings, Queens and Statesmen
Autographs from the G. Edward Elwell, Jr. Collection

July 19, 2002 - January 19, 2003
The Last Cowboy
Photographs by Adam Jahiel

March 2 - November 7, 2002
The Banjo
The People and the Sounds of America's Folk Instrument

December 1, 2001 - September 2, 2002
From Dairy to Doorstep:
Milk Delivery in New England 1860 - 1960

October 20, 2001 - March 3, 2002
Return to Route 66
March 3 - September 9, 2001
Designing in the Wright Style
Furniture and Interiors by Frank Lloyd Wright

February 13 - September 6, 1999

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