Museums, Music, Theater, Fairs and other events. Links to art museums, historic museums, science museums, galleries, local music and the arts. Add new places or review existing ones, and comment on which places are kid-friendly, have outstanding or unusual displays, or were especially interesting.

There are now some winter farmer’s markets in the Pioneer Valley, allowing you to keep your money in the valley and support your neighbors, while enjoying locally grown…

The library has a large children’s area, a multimedia collection (music, video, DVD), the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum, the Hampshire Room for Local History and Special Collections (including digital collections available online, one of which features the Northampton State Hospital), a collection of…

C/W Mars – your library, online. All you need is a valid library card to access reference materials. If your local library has a website, they probably offer links into the C/W Mars system already, but if they don’t, this is where to go.

The Amherst College Museum of Natural History (formerly the Pratt Museum) contains three floors of exhibits and over 1700 individual specimens. There are a variety of displays on vertebrate evolution and extinction, geology of the Connecticut River Valley, and the world’s largest collection of dinosaur tracks, many from…