Enjoy the 2021 Speaker Series, I Remember Wellfleet and the 2021 Annual meeting on Youtube by clicking these links.
Check out the plans for the museum as they are developing, watch this youtube presentation: https://youtu.be/ShLHX66_7X8 Let us know what you are interested in and how you’d like to be involved.
With the SALLY Project, we have the opportunity to learn about people who’ve been overlooked and forgotten. Women from the past who we know little or nothing about are finding a “voice” through visual artists who have chosen to pay homage in one way or another. Read Candy Hammond’s article here
Michael Parlante learned about Wampanoag history and culture from Frank James during times when they went exploring together. Michael’s collection of Native artifacts is currently featured in the front room of the Museum.
WELLFLEET — On the official seal of the town of Wellfleet, a party of pilgrims rows ashore in a dinghy as a crowd of indigenous people wait on the beach. The scene is labeled “1620,” and is encircled by the words “Town of Wellfleet Incorporated 1763.”
Visit “Before 1620: Who Was Here?” to view our collection of Native artifacts, land deed and to learn more about Wampanoag history and present. Museum hours Wed-Sat 1-4.
John Mulcahy’s sister, Catherine Mulcahy, bequeathed this artist self-portrait to us upon her death in September of 2019. John by John, 1997, is a beautiful, tender, exciting, abstract portrait with white beard.
The pestle is made from an oblong narrow stone 6” - The Mortar hand carved from a tree trunk (or limb) 6” high, 5” wide.
Given to Helen Olsen by Emma Fisher ………
