In July 2021, the Sudbury Historical Society opened the Sudbury History Center & Museum in the town-owned c1730 Loring Parsonage located in the Town Center. The project revitalized an historic town asset and allows the SHS to safely store and exhibit its collections, accommodate growing membership and volunteer corps, facilitate scholarly research, and provide a fully accessible historical resource for Sudbury’s residents and visitors.

Three museum galleries use wall displays to show a detailed representation of Sudbury’s robust history from the original settlements to current day. The Jonathan Baggott Gallery features a newly revamped Native American display, including information about the New-England (Woodland) Algonquin tribes, and the Nipmuc who resided in modern day Sudbury, as well as an interactive digital archive display and a selection of Native American artifacts from the Hary Rice Collection found in Sudbury. This permanent exhibit is meant to further educate visitors on the life and times of the land’s inhabitants dating back thousands of years prior to the English colonizers.

Two additional galleries (The Sudbury Foundation Gallery and the Stansky-Eaton/Keeny Gallery) each contain unique rotating presentations. The Sudbury Foundation Gallery will focus on the Life and Times of Israel Loring and Family and the Stansky-Eaton/Keeney Gallery will display numerous artifacts from our robust archives. It will be a view into the SHS collections.