Events
March 22, 2014 - 6:00 PM
$54.95 per person. (OSV Members $49.95)
Inclusive of tax and gratuity
Save with a Hearthside Bounty Lodging package.
Join us as we experience an evening in a 19th-century tavern.
In addition to a supper prepared in part at the hearth, guests may enjoy beverages fashionable in early New England, hear music and stories from an earlier time, and explore period games and entertainment. Learn about table manners from the period, when it was not only polite, but advised to eat from the knife (fork tines were meant...
March 28, 2014
Registration opens 30-days in advance of Home School Day.
Our Home School Days offer you and your children the opportunity to explore the Village and participate in hands-on activities. This is a great opportunity for children to gain exposure to many aspects of 1830s New England life in an interactive way.
We recommend that you allow for up to three hours to visit the Village, in addition to any...
March 29, 2014 to March 30, 2014
Explore the role of Native Americans in early New England through a weekend of stories, demonstrations, cooking, and more. More details to follow as the event approaches.
Planning Ahead
Purchase your tickets online in advance to expedite your entrance into the Village.
Add an overnight stay at the Old Sturbridge Inn and Reeder Family Lodges.
Find more useful information for planning your visit.
March 29, 2014 - 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
$85 per person ($75 for OSV Members)
Enjoy a unique opportunity to prepare and eat a meal as early New Englanders did. Participants gather in the Parsonage, where costumed interpreters oversee the preparations, but the guests do the roasting, baking, and mulling. Roast meat using a tin reflector oven, fire a brick bake oven, and mull spiced cider over the hearth before sitting down to enjoy the results, all by candlelight.
Watch...
April 05, 2014
Registration will open one month prior to the event.
Boy Scout Days at Old Sturbridge Village is one of the Scout programs offered by OSV, providing Boy Scouts, and their families and friends, the opportunity to learn about America's proud past! Our recreated community portrays a "typical" New England town of the early 19th century. Special programs and hands-on studios designed around a specific theme help Scouts earn requirements toward badges...
April 05, 2014 to April 06, 2014
MEMBER EVENT
Old Sturbridge Village extends to OSV members the privilege of bringing their dog to Old Sturbridge Village during the first weekend of the month in January, February, March, April, and November. Not a member yet? Join now.
Members - have you attended a Dog Day in the past? Send us photos of your dog enjoying the Village!
Dog Days Policies
In order to be eligible to participate in Dog...
April 12, 2014
Registration will open one month prior to the event.
Girl Scout Days at Old Sturbridge Village are one of the Scout programs offered by OSV, providing Girl Scouts, and their families and friends, the opportunity to learn about America's proud past! Our recreated community portrays a "typical" New England town of the early 19th century. Special programs and hands-on studios designed around a specific theme help Scouts earn requirements toward...
April 19, 2014
Enjoy expanded hands-on and interactive activities throughout the Village, along with family-friendly performances and entertainment, including music, storytelling, and puppet shows. Meet the new arrivals at the farm (every day) and on Monday (Patriots' Day), take part in martial activities.
Children will be invited to help churn butter, make an herbal sachet or a seed bag or a thaumatrope.
And,...
April 21, 2014
Join us in learning how the start of the Revolutionary War affected a small New England community, a highlight of special school vacation week events.
See a recreation of the "alarm of 1775" when the Meetinghouse bell will ring and the Sturbridge militia will muster on the Common.
Other special events include fife and drum music throughout the day and musket ball-making demonstrations. Visitors...
April 26, 2014 to April 27, 2014
We look forward to welcoming employees of our Business Partners to Old Sturbridge Village.
On these two days, complimentary admission to OSV will be extended to the employees of our Business Partners - including up to six immediate family members (parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, spouses, and siblings) per employee.
Not sure your company is a member? Need to renew your membership...
April 26, 2014 - 10:00 AM
Get an insider’s perspective on OSV’s exhibit Delightfully Designed – The Furniture and Life of Nathan Lombard. Tour the exhibit with a member of the curatorial staff. Explore Lombard’s furniture, view family artifacts, and hear family stories about the man behind this extraordinary furniture.
Tours at 10:00 am; please meet at the entrance to the exhibit in the Visitor Center.
May 06, 2014
Registration will open one month before the event.
Our Home School Days offer you and your children the opportunity to explore the Village and participate in hands-on activities. This is a great opportunity for children to gain exposure to many aspects of 1830s New England life in an interactive way.
We recommend that you allow for up to three hours to visit the Village, in addition to any scheduled hands-on studios. If time permits, consider...
May 11, 2014
Free admission and a special gift for moms (while supplies last) on Mother's Day at Old Sturbridge Village, with family events planned throughout the day, including a "Moms vs. Kids" tug-o-war.
Visit the Village households and craftshops to learn about parenting in the 19th century. See the tinsmith make a baby rattle and the potter make a chamber pot for potty training. Learn about cooking for...
May 24, 2014 to May 26, 2014
Memorial Day Weekend
The sheep get their yearly "haircuts" this weekend. Farmers shear the sheep, and costumed history interpreters demonstrate the entire wool textile process, from scouring and carding the wool to spinning, knitting the hand-spun wool yarn.
Try your hand at carding the wool, and then see how the Village's 19th-century water-powered carding mill can do the same job much faster....
June 07, 2014
More than 50 pre-1946 automobiles will be showcased on the Common throughout the day and a grand procession of the autos will take place at 3:30 p.m.
Come back the next day for the first Antique Carriage Rally.
If you are interested in participating with your antique automobile, please contact Jim O'Brien.
See a slide show.
Planning Ahead
Purchase your tickets online in advance to expedite your...
June 08, 2014
See dozens of antique horse-drawn carriages throughout the village as part of our Historic Transportation Weekend, which also includes the Antique Car Rally on Saturday, June 7.
If you are interested in participating, please contact Jim O'Brien.
Planning Ahead
Purchase your tickets online in advance to expedite your entrance into the Village.
Add an overnight stay at the Old Sturbridge Inn and...
June 14, 2014 to June 15, 2014
Free admission and a special gift (while supplies last) for dads on Father's Day, Sunday, June 15.
The Village comes alive with the lost sounds and sights of 19th-century popular music and art as more than 50 singers, dancers, musicians, and artists perform and demonstrate. See antique instruments from the Village collection that are rarely on display. See fife and drum music performed. Learn how...
June 21, 2014 to June 22, 2014
Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the life of African Americans in early 19th-century New England and their culture and traditions.
Planning Ahead
Purchase your tickets online in advance to expedite your entrance into the Village.
Add an overnight stay at the Old Sturbridge Inn and Reeder Family Lodges.
Find more useful information for planning your visit.
July 04, 2014
Come celebrate the best July 4th in history with old-fashioned, patriotic family fun.
For the safety and comfort of all guests, all coolers, bags, chairs, and backpacks will be subject to inspection at the point of admission.
Join in the fun as the martial band leads the citizens' procession as they march through the streets. Cheer and huzzah during a rousing patriotic reading of the Declaration...
July 04, 2014 - 6:00 PM
Tickets will be on sale in early summer 2014.
Join us for an evening full of activities followed by 21st-century fireworks.
Gates open at 6:00 with music, magic and more, followed by the fireworks at dusk.
For the safety and comfort of all guests, all coolers, bags, chairs, and backpacks will be subject to inspection at the point of admission.
Highlights include:
Reading of the Declaration of Independence
Music, entertainment, games and...
