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.

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.

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.

Join us for a day of activities and amusements for Boy Scouts (Girl Scout Day on March 28). Online registration opens four weeks in advance.

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.

Join us for a day of activities and amusements for Girl Scouts (Boy Scout Day on March 20). Online registration opens four weeks in advance.

Easter Brunch at the Oliver Wight Tavern is sure to create special family memories.
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 expanded hands-on and interactive activities throughout the Village, along with family-friendly performances and  entertainment.  Meet the new arrivals at the farm (every day) and on Monday (Patriots Day), take part in martial activities.

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.

Celebrate Patriots Day marching and drilling with the Sturbridge Militia, watching musket-firing demonstrations, enjoying martial music, and touring the "Firearms of Freedom" exhibit.

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.

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.

Moms get in free on Mother's Day at Old Sturbridge Village on Sunday, May 9, and special activities are planned. A special Mother's Day Brunch is served in the Oliver Wight Tavern (reservations required).

Mother's Day Brunch at the Oliver Wight Tavern is sure to create special family memories.

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.

Share in the excitement of a re-created early New England Muster Day, where the sounds of muskets and fifes & drums fill the air.

See how wool is processed from shearing and scouring to carding and spinning, then turned into knitted or woven items. Try your hand in the Fenno textile exhibit.

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.

What did 1830s New Englanders do for entertainment? Without reality television and movies, what kind of cultural atmosphere did they maintain and enjoy? Our own artists, musicians, and dancers provide some of the entertaining answers!

Have fun with Dad at Old Sturbridge Village on his special day.  Learn about what life was like for fathers and kids in early New England.  Challenge Pop to a game of marbles or a hoop race.  Stop by the Hands-On Crafts Center for hands-on blacksmithing or tinmaking.

This exhibit opening October 24 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?"

Many garments in the Old Sturbridge Village collection show evidence of patching, darning or alterations. It was often easier and more economical to make an old garment last than create a new piece of clothing. Though they may be well-worn and well-loved, these textiles tell a story through their patches, darns and alterations.

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

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

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