Visit with Santa and enjoy Sunday brunch in the Oliver Wight Tavern at the threshold of the Village.
Reservations are recommended.

Celebrate New England with the entire family during December School Vacation Week. Winter in New England brings fresh snow and days of brilliant sunshine, and Old Sturbridge Village brings cozy fires.

Old Sturbridge Village is open on this winter holiday.  December school vacation week activities continue through January 2.

Ring in the New Year...with Brunch at the Oliver Wight Tavern!
Reservations are recommended.

Join us for the Friday Night Rib Room at the Oliver Wight Tavern. Enjoy cocktails, ale, and good friends by our crackling fire, then indulge with our prime rib dinner with dishes adapted from early New England.
Reservations are recommended.

Take a Closer Look is a monthly program open to all OSV Members. Held at 10 a.m. on the second Saturday of each month, this program invites a closer look with a Village specialist.

Garden Thyme is a monthly program open to all OSV Members. Held the third Saturday of each month at 10 a.m., this program looks at a variety of topics for the experienced and novice gardener.

The Village, which opens at 10:30 a.m. on this winter holiday, honors Martin Luther King, Jr., with a focus on individuals who played significant roles in the abolition and social reform movements in early 19th-century America.   Note:  free admission for kids! 

The Oliver Wight Tavern goes Italian at our first Live Cooking Demonstration, featuring chefs Brad Arcoite and Enrico Giovanello.
Advance registration is required.

It's a day to embrace the joys of an old-fashioned winter -- indoors and out. Join us today at the Mill Pond at Old Sturbridge Village to learn about ice harvesting in early New England. Hear about Native American winter traditions.  Then warm up your toes by the fire at the Bullard Tavern.

Romantic dinner served fireside on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of Valentine's Day weekend.
Reservations required.

A visit to Old Sturbridge Village during February school vacation week is sure to be a highlight. Special activities for Presidents' Day Weekend (get your history here!) and all week, plus plan on skating (bring yours), sledding (please use ours), and sleigh rides -- weather permitting.

Keep the kids busy during February school vacation week with a mix of invigorating outdoor fun and cozy indoor activities and hands-on crafts.  Presidents' Day weekend brings remembrances of George Washington and celebrates his memory the way early New Englanders did.

Take a Closer Look is a monthly program open to all OSV Members. Held at 10 a.m. on the second Saturday of each month, this program invites a closer look with a Village specialist.

Garden Thyme is a monthly program open to all OSV Members. Held the third Saturday of each month at 10 a.m., this program looks at a variety of topics for the experienced and novice gardener.

Home School Days are a great opportunity for you and your children to gain exposure to the life and work of an early 19th-century rural New England community.

Attention OSV Members:  as a thank-you for your support we are offering a series of special Dog Days at OSV just for Members.

On weekend days in March, see maple sugaring as it was done in early 19th-century rural New England and learn why the final product historically was sugar, not syrup.

Experience Irish traditions when the Oliver Wight Tavern's Tap Room becomes an Irish pub, featuring Irish fare, plus storytelling and traditional Irish and Celtic music performed live.
Reservations are recommended.

Take a Closer Look is a monthly program open to all OSV Members. Held at 10 a.m. on the second Saturday of each month, this program invites a closer look with a Village specialist.

Enjoy traditional Irish breakfast items as part of the Oliver Wight Tavern's Sunday Brunch
Reservations are recommended.

Join us for a day of activities and amusements for Boy Scouts (Girl Scout Day is on April 9).

Garden Thyme is a monthly program open to all OSV Members. Held the third Saturday of each month at 10 a.m., this program looks at a variety of topics for the experienced and novice gardener.

Enjoy Sunday brunch in the Oliver Wight Tavern at OSV's main entrance.
Reservations are recommended.

Join us for a day of activities and amusements for Girl Scouts. (Boy Scout Day is April 2.)

Rare antique bonnets on display in the Visitor Center and in various Village spaces.  Related demonstration on April 2, 3 & 4.

This exhibit on display through early September features rarely-seen pieces of early Massachusetts furniture from the OSV collection and on loan from private collectors.

The museum's newest permanent exhibit, Farm, Families and Change, includes new displays in three of the Village's restored barns.  The exhibit addresses questions that resonate today:  "Where does our food come from?" and "Why does the New England landscape look the way it does?"

Join the fun and start your own Christmas tradition...enter the 2nd annual Gingerbread House Contest at Old Sturbridge Village!

The area for safe outdoor skating at Old Sturbridge Village is back this winter (weather permitting, naturally). Bring your skates, we provide the fun!  Also, with good snowcover, try out one of our 1830s-reproduction sleds on the hill near the Cooper Shop.  And watch for the sleigh around the Common...climb aboard near the Tin Shop.

Enjoy Sunday brunch in the Oliver Wight Tavern at OSV's main entrance.
Reservations are recommended.