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The Arden Craft Shop Museum proudly presents… “‘This Isn’t Hull House’: Life at Arts and Crafts Communities in the Long-Twentieth Century” A lecture by Dr. Thomas A. Guiler, Assistant Professor of History and Public Humanities at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. Sunday, April 15, 2018, at 4pm at the Buzz Ware Village Center in […]

Interested in learning more about ACSM’s photographic collection and how to find the images you’re looking for? Please join us for a FREE workshop on Wednesday, March 28th, at 7:30pm at the museum. We will discuss our collection and the best ways to search for photographs in our on-line database. Please feel free to bring

Due to the inclement weather, the Arden Craft Shop Museum will be closed tonight, Wednesday, March 21. Please join us when we reopen this Sunday at 1pm.

On March 10, the Arden Craft Shop Museum and Archives Committee prepared a wonderful crab cake feast for the Dinner Gild’s Saturday night community dinner. Linda Toman took the lead organizing and planning the menu, shopping, and dividing up the tasks for preparation to make dinner for 145 people.Everyone participated and we had a great

Barbara Macklem and I were attendees at this year’s Small Museum Association Conference held in College Park, MD over Presidents’ Day weekend. Our former ACSM curator, Kelsey Ransick, was one of the Small Museum Association’s coordinators, and she reported that they had the largest turnout yet – some 250 museum representatives.​Also part of the ACSM contingent were

Two images from the Arden Archives Photographic Collection are featured in a new exhibit at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. The centerpiece of  “Eye on the Iconic: Honus Wagner and Sports Memorabilia” is an incredibly rare 1909-11 Honus Wagner T206 baseball card. The exhibit also highlights images and objects related to American baseball history.  The exhibit includes a

Hello everyone! Due to the inclement weather, we will not be open this evening. We will be reopen on Sunday, March 11 from 1 pm to 3 pm. Please stay safe and warm! 

Looking for a special way to celebrate the return to Daylight Savings Time?  Plan to join the Museum & Archives Committee on Saturday, March 10th for the “three-peat” of our fabulous Crab Cake (with vegetarian zucchini option) Dinner. The crab cakes are from one of the Arden Cookbooks in the Museum’s collection.  Arden cooks have been a

The Arden Craft Shop Museum will be closed on Sunday, December 24, and Sunday, December 31, to observe the holidays. We will be open on Wednesday, December 27, from 7:30-9pm. Please stop in and see us!

The ACSM would like to thank the community of the Ardens for making our exhibition opening on October 22 such a success. “Finding a Home in the Ardens: Camps, Cottages, and Castles” would not have been possible without your support.  Many thanks to everyone who loaned objects, helped with installation, and shared stories of their