January is not just a time to plan for the new year, it's also a time to take a moment to look back on the year that has passed. We put together a short slideshow of highlights from 2025 including Museum programs, visits from campers, and so much more. Less exciting are the hours spent writing newsletters or blog posts or corresponding with potential lecturers and scheduling volunteers, but know that all of that takes place behind the scenes as well! Thank you so much to all

Greenbelt Before Greenbelt: Histories and Mysteries The archeological and historical record documents thousands of years of human presence on the land we now call Greenbelt, most intensely in the past 400 years. This slide talk by historian, Alan Virta, will present a broad overview of the black, white, and Native American people who lived here before the New Deal green town was built and how they made a living off the land, with stories about representative individuals and f

We hope you'll join us for our annual evening open house, Deco the Halls, on Friday, December 5, 7:30-9pm following the city's annual tree lighting. The house glows with vintage holiday decorations and the gift shop is freshly stocked with new merchandise!  Our holiday decor includes items a typical family would have used between roughly 1937-1952 (the era that the Museum primarily interprets) including a vintage table setting, holiday cookie cutters, handmade aprons, greetin

We hope many of you will join us over Labor Day weekend at the Museum. We have a variety of fun events planned! Greenbelt homes....