Our newly opened exhibit, Making it on Main Street, tells the 400-year history of downtown Northampton and includes a model of the town in 1847+ more than a dozen interactive activities for kids and grown-ups. Come check it out!
Historic Northampton is a museum of local history in the heart of the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts. Its collection of approximately 50,000 objects and three historic buildings is the repository of Northampton and Connecticut Valley history from the Pre-Contact era to the present.
Historic Northampton constitutes a campus of three contiguous historic houses, all on their original sites. The grounds themselves are part of an original Northampton homelot, laid out in 1654.
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Visit our Museum Shop at Historic Northampton for a selection of books of local history, reproductions of historic prints, photographs, postcards and note cards, and more.
