North Shore Children’s Museum
Ring in the new year a little early - kid-style! Join us for our Noon Year’s Eve Party on December 31 from 10AM–12PM! Enjoy a morning filled with: Access to all exhibits A festive New Year’s craft A winter holiday puppet show And our BIG countdown and ball drop at Noon! It’s the perfect way...
Wenham Museum
✨ Get ready to glow your way into the New Year! ✨ This family-friendly celebration is bursting with bright lights, big smiles, and hands-on fun for all ages. Step into the glow and enjoy a morning full of family-friendly activities, then get ready for the countdown as you sparkle and twirl at the glow-up dance...
Downtown Rockport
Mistletoe Madness is back for a second season! This year, all shoppers participating in Mistletoe Madness will be entered into one Grand Prize Drawing. From December 6 through December 31, 2025, shop at participating Rockport retailers, restaurants, theatres, and recreation spots for your chance to win big in our New Year’s Eve drawing for hundreds...
Hammond Castle Museum
Join us for the 2025 Holiday Season as we proudly present our 7th annual “Deck The Halls” holiday celebration! Travel back in time to a castle filled with lush, opulent textures inspired by the great medieval and Renaissance castles of Europe. Wander through rooms adorned with White Birch and Christmas trees, sparkling fairy lights, hydrangea-lace...
Gloucester Stage
What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? returns to Gloucester Stage for a “speakeasy night” of songs, secrets, and stories of the forbidden. Feel free to dress for the theme! Named...
Peabody Essex Museum
What wishes do you have for the new year? Using torn paper, magazine clippings and mixed media materials, create a landscape that can hold your dreams. Studio Saturdays is an adult art making series designed to inspire creativity and connection through multimedia arts exploration. Each class includes invitations to awaken curiosity, with an equal emphasis...
Peabody Essex Museum
Join the PEM Reads community for a live book launch! Hear Salem’s first-ever poet laureate J.D. Scrimgeour read from his new work Poet in High Street Park: Prose & Poetry for Modern Salem. David Snider, PEM’s Director of Learning & Community Engagement, will host an author talk with Scrimgeour followed by a light reception and...
Wenham Museum
🚂 All aboard for the HUB Model Train Weekend! 🚂 Escape the cold and explore incredible model train layouts by some of the region’s best railroaders—plus the Thomas the Tank Engine layout is back by popular demand! 📅 Jan 17–19, 2026 📍 Burnham Hall at Wenham Museum ⚠️ Important note: SATURDAY, JAN. 17 from 10...
Peabody Essex Museum
Join us for a free day at PEM as we celebrate and reflect on the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the upcoming exhibition Edmonia Lewis: Said In Stone. Artist Edmonia Lewis moved continually throughout her life, living in upstate New York, Ohio, Boston, London and Rome, searching for a place where...
Peabody Essex Museum
Join us for a special screening of the short documentary We Are Made from the Land: Protecting the Seal River Watershed, shown in conjunction with Knowing Nature: Stories of the Boreal Forest. This moving film highlights the Seal River Watershed Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA) Initiative — one of the largest land protection efforts...
Join us in celebrating the fish city’s recognizably salty character with the 5th Annual Gloucester’s So Salty, a festival sponsored by the Cape Ann Museum in partnership with Discover Gloucester....
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Newburyport
Historian Alexander Cain returns to Newburyport to explore one of the most tense and transformative moments in American history in this engaging lecture on Massachusetts and Newburyport in early 1776. As the Siege of Boston drags through a bitter winter, he will discuss civilian suffering inside the town, the controversial use of smallpox in efforts...
