A walking tour starting from the 1808 Cushing House down State Street into the heart of Newburyport while learning about the Revolution.

Come party with us at the Pearson Tavern, sip on cocktails, and enjoy a night to remember! This event is a fundraiser for the Museum!

Celebrate America’s 250th birthday in a house that was already old when independence was declared. This exclusive Museum of Old Newbury members-only evening at the privately owned Pearson Tavern brings together colonial cocktails, hearty food, live music, firelight, tavern tales, and a lively performance of An Evening at Pearson’s Tavern, featuring Jeremiah Pearson, local patriots, and a young Lord Timothy Dexter.

Join Ghlee Woodworth for a walk through the history of the fires, famous and infamous, that shaped downtown Newburyport!

Join author and historian Ghlee Woodworth for a tour of Oak Hill Cemetery to learn about various artists, painters, and some ancient trees!

Meet Revolutionary heroes, merchants, captains, and curious characters among Old Hill's remarkable stones and family tombs.

Join author and historian Ghlee Woodworth for a tour of Oak Hill Cemetery, focusing on those who worked hard to sustain the community.

Walking tour of High Street, starting from 1808 Cushing House, discussing stories of local figures and the lives and homes they shaped.

Join noted author and historian Ghlee Woodworth for a walk through the contrasting worlds of Newburyport's waterfront neighborhoods, once known as "Down-along," and the prosperous heights of "The Ridge." Hear stories of merchants, inventors, and author, sea captains, civic leaders, and the homes and institutions they shaped. This tour explores how geography, work, wealth, and architecture created distinct communities within one city.

Step inside the Revolution for a day of rare manuscripts, private museum access, Masonic history, battlefield interpretation, and extraordinary archival treasures.

Museum of Old Newbury members only.

A public commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Newburyport's first reading of the Declaration of Independence, with readings, music, reenactors, family-friendly activities, a waterfront salute by two schooners, and more.

Follow Newburyport's road to revolution through merchant mansions, taverns, privateering, shipmasters, and Market Square.

Join Ghlee Woodworth for a walking tour focused on the memorials of Newburyport’s Black community and Revolutionary privateers.

Join us for Newburyport's 9th annual community reading of Frederick Douglass's powerful speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

An in-person community reading of Frederick Douglass's impassioned 1852 speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” will take place on Sunday, July 5, at 10am. Lend your voice to this powerful participatory event.

Meet Revolutionary heroes, merchants, captains, and curious characters among Old Hill's remarkable stones and family tombs.

The Revolutionary Homefront: New England Families and Women’s Lives in Turmoil. This talk highlights New England women on the home front whose lives were suddenly or violently disrupted and who wrote about it.

Songs, stories, theatrics, and an epic "crankie" panorama bring Newburyport’s Revolutionary taverns to life. Come raise a glass with us!

Join experts from around the world for a one-day symposium on Revolutionary War privateers and Newburyport’s Atlantic impact!

Explore the story of Phillis Wheatley Peters—her genius, her defiance, and the love that stood with her against extraordinary odds.

Step into wartime Newburyport with Alex Cain as loyalists face persecution, prices soar, and fear hangs heavy as we move to independence.

Join us for the Canadian perspective on the Arnold Expedition and the last siege of Québec in 1775-1776.

Historian Alexander Cain returns to Newburyport to explore one of the most tense and transformative moments in American history.

Grab a flashlight and journey through time on a guided stroll around Oak Hill Cemetery on the longest night of the year!

The Friends of William Lloyd Garrison will host a conversation with Boston Globe columnist

Renée Graham entitled “To Resist is to Exist” on Sunday, Dec. 14 at 3 p.m.

Free and open to the public.

Join your fellow members of the Museum of Old Newbury for a special evening in the decorated1808 Cushing House and c.1810 Carriage House.

An annual tradition! Come enjoy the 1808 Cushing House decorated for the season by local garden clubs and volunteers.

An annual tradition! Come enjoy the 1808 Cushing House decorated for the season by local garden clubs and volunteers.

This All Hallows Day, explore post-mortem & spirit photography in the 19th century and beyond —plus dark beer, wine & cider donut tasting.

Step into the shadows on All Hallows Day—bones, hair jewelry & shipwreck relics await at MOON. Special tours at 11, 1 & 3.