Beauty: A Modern Revolution

April 3 – June 29

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century beauty and fashion trends revolutionized the industry. People were emboldened with ever-changing trends towards dramatic looks highlighting visual and personal self-awareness while allowing for increasing function, versatility, and affordability to use in the increasingly industrialized and modernized world. Explore this world of beauty and fashion at the Atkins-Johnson Farm and Museum with Beauty: A Modern Revolution, as this exhibit tracks the changes that brought these dynamic industries into the modern era.

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Immigration: An American Story– from the Gilder Lehrman Institute

July 10 – August 3

The United States has often been called “a nation of immigrants”—an oversimplification, to be sure. American Indians were present before the nation’s founding and hundreds of thousands of Africans were brought to these shores in chains. Many Americans, however, descend from immigrants who fled religious or ethnic persecution, war, or economic hardship. Over time, each wave of immigrants has left its own imprint on public attitudes and policies throughout the country’s history. Immigration: An American Story presents documents, maps, and images to tell select stories of those who came to America, some by force and others by choice in search of a better future for themselves and later generations.

 

Boston Cooking School Cookbook: The Exhibit

August 7 – November 2

America’s first mass-produced cookbook, published in 1896 by Fannie Farmer, revolutionized the world of cooking and cookery at the turn of the twentieth century. Follow the stories, the recipes, and the ingredients that made the movement in this exhibit, as well some of the cookbooks Farmer inspired.

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