Falmouth Historical Society's 2012 Season

The Falmouth Museums on the Green, 55-65 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, have opened for their 2012 season. The Museums will be open Tuesday through Friday, 10 am to 4 pm and on Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm.

  Admission is $5 for adults.  Children 12 and under are free. Members of the Historical Society, and of Historic Highfield, will receive complimentary tours of the Museums on the Green as well as Highfield Hall. Additionally, all through the season, any resident of Falmouth will be admitted at no charge on Fridays.

The Museums on the Green feature the 1730 Conant House, which includes exhibits on Falmouth’s maritime and whaling past; Falmouth-born author, Katharine Lee Bates, writer of (among other things) “America the Beautiful”; and other rotating exhibits. Exhibits for the season include “Curiosities of Falmouth” and “Presidential Politics and Women’s Suffrage.”

The 1790 Dr. Francis Wicks House showcases a Federal-period house demonstrating how a post-Revolutionary War-era doctor would have lived. (Guided tours of the Wicks House are required.)  The Hallett Barn Visitor’s Center has rotating exhibit spaces, including Falmouth’s role in the Civil War.

For more information, call the Museums on the Green at 508-548-4857 or log onto the website: www.falmouthhistoricalsociety.org.