Thanks to Yarmouth Municipal Television, many of our recent programs and exhibits are available online! Check out their YouTube channel for lectures, talks with local artists, and conversations about local history. We appreciate their support in helping to make our programs more accessible to our community of supporters. Thank you, YMTV! … [Read more...]

Now through 1995! All of us at Yarmouth History Center are excited to announce the expansion of our new digital archive of Yarmouth's own newspaper, The Shopping Notes! You'll find issue from 1953-1995, fully digitized and searchable by keyword. Or, browse year by year and page through the individual issues. We hope you'll enjoy looking back at Yarmouth's more recent … [Read more...]

In the summer of 2022, Yarmouth History Center hosted a temporary exhibit of large photo prints from our collection of images of the 1959 Visitors Days. This show showcased large photographs that provide beautifully clear and detailed views of the events, people, and places that made up Yarmouth's Visitors Days celebrations. From a huge parade along Main Street, featuring … [Read more...]

New fashion exhibit, on view now! Learn more about this exhibit on Yarmouth Municipal TV! Created by Museum Assistant Grave Atwood as part of their "Putting History to Work" internship through USM, this exhibit was inspired by the mystery around Ann Taber’s wedding dress and what alterations had been made to it throughout its life. The original dress would have been worn … [Read more...]

During November and December 2021, Yarmouth High School English teacher Anne Tommaso’s “College Writing” class paid three visits to the History Center. The 18 students in this class were tasked with writing a profile of a Yarmouth person or object. Their first visit to the Center included a tour of the museum and an introduction to the available subjects, which had been … [Read more...]