Vanessa Bumpus
Phone: 508.753.8278 x109
Email: vanessabumpus@worcesterhistory.net
If you were to leave your home country and set out for a new land, new places, and new faces, what would you bring to remind yourself of your birthplace? The new exhibit, The Things We Carried: Guatemalan Stories, answers those questions through the voices and objects of the Worcester-area Guatemalan community. The exhibit features the physical things people carried to the US, but also the intangible traditions, heritage, ideas, hopes, history, and memories they represent.
Presented in the Museum's Rice Gallery, the exhibit includes traditional textiles, pottery, instruments and religious artifacts from the community. It also features the voices and stories of those who have come to America to make a better life for the ones they left behind.
The Things We Carried: Guatemalan Stories will be on exhibit until January 31, 2009. For more information please contact Vanessa Bumpus, Exhibit Coordinator.
Located at 30 Elm Street, Worcester Historical Museum is the only institutions that collects, preserves, researches, and interprets Worcester's history in all time periods. Worcester's story is one of individual achievement, industrial accomplishment, and community progress. Included in the museum's activities are permanent and changing exhibitions, special events, educational programs, and library services. The museum's collections include three-dimensional objects, clothing, graphics, and manuscripts. The museum also owns and operates Salisbury Mansion at 40 Highland Street, Worcester's only historic house museum, built in 1772 and restored to its 1830s appearance.
The museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 to 4, and Thursdays 10 to 8:30. Salisbury Mansion is open Thursday from 1 to 8:30 and Friday and Saturday from 1 to 4. Admission is $5; members and children, free. For more information visit www.worcesterhistory.net.