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The American Heritage Museum, located in Hudson, Massachusetts, is honored to announce that it has been awarded a generous $200,000 matching grant as part of the Cultural Facilities Fund (CFF) administered by MassDevelopment and the Mass Cultural Council. The American Heritage Museum is one of 94 cultural organizations within the Commonwealth that will be receiving…

Children at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in 1945. The Holocaust was one of the darkest moments in human history, where millions of innocent people were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime during World War II. Six million Jews, homosexuals, people with disabilities, minorities, people based solely on their ethnicity, religion, sexual…

For the first time ever – the American Heritage Museum in Massachusetts and the Tank Museum in Bovington, England have teamed up to offer an extraordinary one-of-a-kind tank experience sweepstakes. Winner will go to the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, Massachusetts to drive the famous M4 Sherman tank and M24 Chaffee Tanks, then go to…

Under restoration in the American Heritage Museum’s restoration workshop, the original World War II vintage M36 Jackson Tank Destroyer is making great progress this spring! Under the supervision of our team leader Dick Moran, a team of volunteers have been hard at work over the winter and spring. One of the major efforts has been…

Rosie the Riveter Day is a day of recognition for the millions of women who entered the workforce during World War II and played a vital role in the war effort and long after. The day is celebrated on March 21st, which was declared Rosie the Riveter Day by the US Congress in 2017. The…

Plight of American POWs in Vietnam Realized in an Extraordinary Exhibit On 50 th Anniversary of Their Release. The American Heritage Museum in Massachusetts opens the Hanoi Hilton POW Experience Exhibit on February 12th, fifty years after their 1973 release during Operation Homecoming. Coined the “Hanoi Hilton” by American prisoner-of-war Robert Shumaker, the Hỏa Lò…

The Vietnam War, which lasted from 1955 to 1975, was a complex and divisive conflict that resulted in the deaths of over 58,000 American soldiers and an estimated 2 million Vietnamese civilians. The war officially ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords on January 27, 1973. The accords represented a major step towards…

In partnership with the WWII Museum’s Normandy Academy in New Orleans, the American Heritage Museum is offering an 11-day expense paid trip for one high school junior level student to France on June 26 th to July 6 th , 2023. The student will join the Normandy Academy group to see all the major sites…

Steve Anderson’s illustration of Eddie Rickenbacker’s 5th victory of a German Albatross C.1 in his Nieuport 28. SPAD S.XIII In early 1918, with the air war over the skies of France and Belgium reaching their most dangerous point, American pilots with the Allied Expeditionary Force were anxious…