Westport Museum

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Bittersweet: Chocolate in the American Colonies

Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport

Experience the growing, harvesting, and historical process of making cocoa in Westport Museum’s hands-on exhibition that explores the connection between chocolate and Westport’s mercantile past in the 18th and 19th ...

I Thee Wed: Bridal Fashion from the Collections

Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport

Visitors can explore several examples of wedding gowns—both white and the less traditional—in the Museum’s collection in I Thee Wed: Western Bridal Fashion from the Collection. Discover how these iconic ...

Legacy: the Adairs of Westport

Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport

For nearly one hundred years Benjamin Adair and his descendants called Westport home. Likely born into slavery in North Carolina, Adair built a prosperous life through a series of smart ...

Ongoing

Felt Pumpkin Kits

Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport

Our felt pumpkin kits are the perfect craft to celebrate the spooky season. Celebrate a spooktacular Halloween with your own miniature pumpkin creation!  Miniature pumpkin kits will include one felt ...

$5

Into the Sanitarium Escape Room

Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport

Can you go into the Sanitarium escape room and make it out? Can you uncover the truth of the Westport Sanitarium? Rumors have spread of strange goings on inside the ...

$20 – $25

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Reading by Washington Irving

Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport

The ghostly apparition of Washington Irving, author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, has been resurrected for a special reading of his frightful tale about the Headless Horseman. Audiences of ...

$5


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Past Events

Browse recent events hosted by the Westport Museum for History and Culture. For more information about these events, please contact our team.