Every autumn, Longyear Museum plans and leads two four-day tours of Mary Baker Eddy’s New England. Fall Tour season is always a highlight at Longyear, and this year was no exception as we welcomed guests from across the country and abroad, all eager to wind their way through New Hampshire and Massachusetts learning about Mrs.…

Thanks to the generosity of a private collector, there’s a new display in the main exhibit at Longyear Museum. “Mary Baker Eddy: A Spiritual Journey,” located in Longyear’s Mott Gallery, draws from the Museum’s collection of photographs, documents, and artifacts to trace the life of the Discoverer, Founder, and Leader of Christian Science from her…

Longyear Museum has touched thousands of visitors, readers, and viewers this year, even as we’ve been preserving and recording history for future generations. We’ve worked on a host of restoration projects, produced two new audiobooks (Life at 400 Beacon Street: Working in Mary Baker Eddy’s Household and Paths of Pioneer Christian Scientists), developed a new…

Longyear Museum is happy to announce a matching grant to support the interior restoration of the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Amesbury, Massachusetts! With the exterior restoration wrapping up, we are now turning our attention to the interior – a good project for the late fall and winter months. The Amesbury interior was last…

On a warm late-summer morning earlier this week, half a dozen vintage carriages rolled out of the carriage house at Mary Baker Eddy’s former home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. In anticipation of the restoration work that will take place on the property later this year, it was decided to move the carriages (and two sleighs)…