Featured Event Don’t ask how word just got out online today, but this is one of the city’s most important monuments to the sacrifices of soldiers that happens to be a time capsule of a museum built by veterans of the Civil War, and it needs your help. Thursday, May 31, 2018, at 6pm, the…
Coming up in May Here’s what’s in store for May at Lynn Museum / LynnArts – Life Drawing Life Drawing at LynnArts goes on location for ArtWeek 2018! Work from a model in a leotard in a rich, warm environment with lots of composition potential. Expand your drawing techniques to include more than just the…
Author and former Item reporter Tom Dalton gave a talk at the Lynn Museum Thursday evening as part of the Frederick Douglass’ 200th birthday in Lynn series of events and to launch his book, Frederick Douglass: The Lynn Years, 1841-1848. Signed hardcover and softcover versions were available for purchase, as well as T-Shirts commemorating the…
Coming up in April Here’s what’s in store for April at Lynn Museum / LynnArts – Lynn and the Great War: At Home and Abroad Please join us on Tuesday, April 3rd at for the opening of our exhibit: Lynn and the Great War: At Home and Abroad. Learn how Lynn influenced and was…
3/21/18 From the Lynn Historical Commission – The 8th annual Lynn Historical Commission’s Significance Awards nomination season is underway. Between now and noon, Friday April 13, the Lynn Historical Commission is accepting nominations for the June 5 Awards ceremony. The Significance Awards are bestowed each year to a deserving example of historic preservation in Lynn.…
You can attend a brief lecture on this moment in Lynn History at the Lynn Museum, Monday, February 26 at 5:30pm. From community organizer Michelle Guzmán – On February 28th, 1860, women workers at the shoe and textile factories in Lynn walked the streets in a procession along with men to demand equal pay for…
Frederick Douglass returns to Lynn this week to attend his 200th birthday party at City Hall The Wednesday, Feb. 14, celebration honors Douglass, who came to Lynn in 1841 as a 23-year-old runaway slave, settled here with his wife and young children, and left six years later a famous abolitionist. Mayor Thomas McGee will…
Coming up in February at Lynn Museum / LynnArts Saturday, February 3rd, 5:30-8:30, LynnArts will present the opening of their new exhibit Art of the Mack, an exhibition of footwear based artwork in support of Mack’s Soles, a non-profit organization who accepts donations of worn shoes and refurbishes them to donate to the homeless. They…
6/26/17 Winn Hacket of the Little Theatre School on Lynnfield Street is trying to find out the local history behind this antique merry-go-round/carousel: “I bought Little Theatre School located at 503 Lynnfield Street, Lynn several years ago. The school came with a working antique merry-go-round. I want to find out more about its place in…
The shoe industry, GE, WPA, the Highlands, Lynn Hospital – the story of Abraham Megerdichian and family is connected to current exhibits at the Lynn Museum. Photo gallery below story Story and photos contributed by Robert Megerdichian, son of Abraham – When my sisters and I were young my father Abraham (Abe) and my mother…