COVID-19 Update
Historic Northampton is closed temporarily due to the coronavirus outbreak.
While the museum gallery is closed, we are offering a Zoom lecture series,
Rediscovering Northampton: Local History Viewed Through An Ecological Lens.

You can also browse our website. Read about the project to restore the circa 1805 Shepherd Barn.
Watch videos about items in the collection. Try an online History at Home activity. 
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History At Home

Historic Northampton has
fun & educational activities
online for the whole family.
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You Make History Every Time You Vote!

COVID-19 has made this election more complicated - but whether or not you vote in Northampton, there are resources to help you through it.
Northampton Voting Information
Links to Voting Information for All 50 States
League of Women Voters
​Vote.org
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Restoring the Shepherd Barn
Funded by the Northampton Community Preservation Act and Private Donors
The Local Experience of COVID-19
Reflections, artwork, music & photographs submitted by area residents ages 5 to 93
All We Ever Have by Jim Armenti
Northampton Open Media's Dave Newland films Jim Armenti.
"All We Ever Have"
Supporting One Another During COVID-19
Written & Arranged by Jim Armenti | Copyright 2020

It's with great pleasure that we announce the premiere of Jim Armenti's new song All We Ever Have that reveals how our community is supporting one another during COVID-19. Please listen, sing along and share!

"[This] is beautiful. I'm going to show it to my
class tomorrow during Morning Meeting."
- Renee Bachman, 3rd grade teacher,
Leeds Elementary School
Online resources to explore Northampton history at home

Online Collections

Search the online collections catalog for historic photographs and artifacts

lOCAL History Websites

View Northampton history websites
with primary source documents

mAPS & ATLASES

Find the street or house where you
live on a 19th century atlas
Historic Northampton mourns the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, and we condemn the long history of violence and discrimination that led to their murders.  
 
As a history museum, our organization is committed to telling the whole story of Northampton's past and to confronting how racism, prejudice and privilege have shaped that story.  We take seriously our responsibility to uncover the lives of people who were denied basic human rights, marginalized during their lifetimes, and erased from the historical record.  Lessons from these lives show us how racism has been woven into the fabric of our history and culture, where it lies today. Historic Northampton is committed to speaking the truth about discrimination and power and working for positive change, in memory of George Floyd and the countless black Americans whose tragic deaths preceded his.