We look forward to welcoming you to Heritage Museums & Gardens for the 2025 season!

It’s National Cranberry Month, and we’re celebrating with fun for the whole family on the final weekend of Heritage’s main season.

• Visit a real cranberry bog – on wheels! – The Massachusetts Cranberries organization’s Traveling Bog brings live plants to Heritage, including exhibit information and the opportunity to learn about growing cranberries from an accompanying expert https://www.cranberries.org/traveling-bog

• Make your own “bog in a cup” to take home – Create a miniature, contained environment to grow a cranberry vine, replicating the soil layers of a natural cranberry bog
• Enjoy food and drinks on the field – Food vendors on the field include The Filling Station, featuring comfort food classics and a few specially-created cranberry-inspired dishes; Beyond the Grind Mobile Coffee Experience, with handcrafted coffee, tea, and smoothie creations, along with cranberry baked goods made for the day; and Lilly’s Café, with beer, wine, and other beverages
• Dance to performances by the Cranberry Jam Band – Bring your own chairs or a blanket and settle in to enjoy this multi-piece band that will play a variety of danceable music – including favorites from Duke Ellington to Billie Eilish – at 12 pm and 1 pm
• Take part in kids’ activities – including hands-on experiments with cranberries, take-home cranberry craft making, and trying on waders for a fun photo op!
• Experience story time with author Jannette Vanderhoop– This author and cultural educator will read from her book Cranberry Day: A Wampanoag Harvest Celebration. Learn more about Wampanoag traditions connected to the land and cranberry harvest, and view a display featuring traditional clothing and objects, including a horseshoe crab basket, gourd rattle, wampum, and bottled clay.
• Check out FoxRock Farms, a cranberry farm helper – Learn how FoxRock Farms supports healthy cranberry bogs through beekeeping, native plantings, and integrated pest management practices
• Explore Hidden Hollow’s cranberry theme, A Bog’s Life – Activities that are part of this month’s theme in this outdoor discovery area include playing a game of Bog Squad charades, creating a woven cranberry craft, preparing your own “bog” in the sand play area, and more
• Experience the Bountiful Bogs: The Massachusetts Cranberry Story exhibit – Did you know that the first cranberry farms began right here on Cape Cod? Watch historic harvest video footage, try your hand at using a real antique cranberry harvesting scoop, see a giant bottle of cranberry juice cocktail, take a photo in front of a wall of cool vintage labels, take home a vintage recipe, and more as you learn how cranberries have shaped the culture, economics, and environment of Cape Cod for hundreds of years.
• Discover artifacts from Heritage’s cranberry collection with the curator – from 12-1:30 pm, learn fun facts from Jennifer Madden, Heritage’s Director of Collections and Exhibitions and curator of the Bountiful Bogs exhibit, who will share artifacts from Heritage’s newly acquired cranberry history collection - the largest museum cranberry history collection in the country!
• View winning cranberry sauce recipes – Winners of the cranberry sauce contest will be announced at 11:30 am, and their recipes will be on display to inspire!

Ticketing Information

Online ticket purchases are strongly encouraged, and allow for quick and easy entry. All tickets are date specific and are valid for entry any time between 10 am-4:30 pm. Tickets are non-refundable.

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Visit Information

 Tickets include admission to:

• The Clarissa S. Nye Visitor Center, with orientation information and staff assistance
• The gardens, featuring collections of rhododendrons, hydrangeas, daylilies, and more (seasonal)
• Hidden Hollow, an outdoor discovery area
• The Special Exhibitions Gallery, featuring the Bountiful Bogs: The Massachusetts Cranberry Story exhibit
• The J.K. Lilly III Automobile Gallery, featuring the From Carriage to Classic: How Automobiles Transformed America exhibit featuring the 1942 Willys MB Jeep
• The American Art & Carousel Gallery, featuring the Heritage Highlights exhibit.
• The 1908 Looff Carousel will be open for photos, but rides will not be available at this time. Thank you for your understanding as we complete repairs affecting operation. We look forward to offering rides again soon!
• Wampanoag Stories exhibit featuring a wetu, Three Sisters Garden, and mush8n
• Outdoor features such as the McGraw Family Garden of the Senses, the Flume Fountain, the Hart Family Maze Garden, the labyrinth, walking trails, and more
• Lilly's Café
• The Shop at Heritage

Terms and Conditions

By purchasing tickets you agree to abide by Heritage Museums & Gardens’ visitation policies. Note that by purchasing tickets you acknowledge that you have read and agree to the conditions of the following:

• Ticketing, Cancellation, and Refund Policy: Please read this policy here in its entirety before purchasing tickets.
• Health and Safety Acknowledgement, which can be reviewed here.