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Past Exhibitions


Threads of Brotherhood: Masonic Quilts and Textiles


Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography
October 13, 2012 – January 5, 2013

Collecting at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Fight, Save, Buy, Wake Up! World War I Posters

The Enchanted Clocks of George McFadden


Illustrating Freemasonry: Masonic Prints


Made in Massachusetts


Curators' Choice: Favorites from the Collection


Sowing the Seeds of Liberty: Lexington and the American Revolution


Fight, Save, Buy, Wake Up! World War I Posters


Collecting at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library


Treasured Lands: The Fifty-Eight U.S. National Parks in Focus
February 20, 2010–August 4, 2012

Inspired by Fashion: American Masonic Regalia
June 4, 2011–March 10, 2012

American Family Treasures: Decorative Arts from the
D.J. and Alice Shumway Nadeau Collection








Night Road: Photographs of Diners by John D. Woolf
November 6, 2010 - November 29, 2011
The Initiated Eye

The Initiated Eye: Secrets, Symbols, Freemasonry, and the Architecture of Washington, DC
December 19, 2009 - February 26, 2011


The Art of the Movie Theater:
Photographs by Stefanie Klavens

October 24, 2009-October 30, 2010

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

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

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
January 31 through March 8, 2009

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

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