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Grundy Museum’s Winter Craft Workshop

Tuesday, November 18th, 2025, from 6 PM – 7:45 PM at Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library Get ready for the winter holidays with a creative twist! Join the Museum for Read more

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Free Tours: Halloween at the Grundy

Event Details Join us for free walk-through tours of Halloween at the Grundy – “Spiritualism in the Victorian Era”! No registration required! Based on supposed communication with the spirits of the dead, the exhibit Read more

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Our Favorite Things: Grandfather Clock

While many of the objects in the house are rather quiet and can be easily missed, my favorite object is quite literally unavoidable, chiming several times a day almost as Read more

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Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

The Margaret R. Grundy Museum is proud to announce our Annual Victorian Holiday House. This year’s inspiration is “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. “A Christmas Carol” was written in Read more

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Captain Joseph Ridgway

Captain Joseph Ridgway was born December 1840. He was the middle child and only son of Benjamin Earl Ridgway and Margaret Fenimore Ridgway. Brother of Mary Ridgway Grundy and maternal Read more

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Learn how lighting changed the world!

If you’ve recently gone on a Grundy Museum tour, you may recall how many of the rooms were kept very dimly lit. In the effort to maintain an accurate interpretation Read more

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Make A Mask Workshop

Friday, October 25, 2024 – 6:00pm – 7:45pm Grundy Library Snyder Room Get ready for Halloween with a creative twist! Join the Museum for a FREE, family-friendly evening of mask-making Read more

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Grundy Achieves Arboretum Accreditation

The Grundy Foundation is proud to announce that it has been accredited as a Level I arboretum through the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program. This prestigious recognition highlights the organization’s commitment Read more