The Museum Collection

Housed on the lower level of the Bacon Free Library building in South Natick, the Historical Society's museum features among its collections the Indian Bible of the 17th century missionary, John Eliot, founder of the Natick Indian Community. The museum collection also includes artifacts of Archaic and Woodland as well as Christian Indian cultures.
Students of literature and history will be interested in the museum's collection of memorabilia of many of Natick's most distinguished citizen's including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Horatio Alger Jr., and Henry Wilson, the 20th Vice-President of the United States. The Wilson Memorial Shoe Shop stands on West Central Street.

Early maps, photographs, furnishings, tools, and costumes are displayed to illustrate the community's daily life in earlier periods.

Of particular interest to students of ornithology is the museum's natural history collection that features an outstanding array of birds of North and South America.

Click here to see a sample of our ornithology collection

The Museum Library

The museum's library contains material relating to Natick and the surrounding towns, local authors, genealogy, and natural history.