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Historic Deerfield, Free Admission
February 1 @ 9:30 am - 4:30 pm EST
Free Admission to the Flynt Center Through February 23
The Flynt Center of Early New England Life
Historic Deerfield has a well-deserved reputation for its masterworks in New England furniture, early American metalwares, textiles, needlework and costume, English and Chinese ceramics, paintings, and prints. The Flynt Center of Early New England Life, which opened in 1998, provides a 27,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art facility containing climate-controlled exhibition galleries, visible storage area, and collection storage for the museum’s most sensitive and highly valued collections. This facility, funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, enables Historic Deerfield to display its collections in thematic ways that the historic houses do not allow.
The first floor of the Flynt Center features a variety of exhibitions and gallery settings.
Building a Collection: Recent Acquisitions at Historic Deerfield
Historic Deerfield possesses one of the premier public collections of decorative arts and architecture in America, with a particular focus on the material culture of the Connecticut River Valley. HD utilizes its collections not only to tell the stories of daily life from the early pre-settlement days of the 17th century to the Arts and Crafts period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but also to foster experiences that create an understanding of New England’s rich material legacy and natural landscape.
In Pursuit of the Picturesque: The Art of James Wells Champney
Through an array of paintings, pastels, photographs, and material culture, this exhibition takes a fresh perspective on the New England artist, James Wells Champney and how he played a pivotal role in shaping late 19th-century perceptions of nostalgia and beauty.
Vermont Furniture from the Alley Collection
This exhibition features an impressive array of 18th and 19th-century Vermont furniture. Many examples in the exhibit retain their vibrant, original surfaces and are organized according to their decoration.
Flynt Center Located at 37 Old Main St in Deerfield, MA.
Open Saturdays & Sundays, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
The Flynt Center is open Wednesdays-Sundays for self-guided tours during the regular season, and weekends during the winter season, from 9:30am to 4:30pm. This facility is fully accessible.
