Atwood Museum, Chatham

Beautiful historic home! So many interesting things about the people who owned it and the surrounding area! Tour guides are very nice and informative. So amazing to hear the stories and see how they lived! Will definitely come back to see this place. Well worth the trip!

Ned was very knowledgeable on the guided tour. Lots of great history in the exhibits, not just of Chatham but of much of Cape Cod. The interactive portions of the exhibits were fun, too!

Great staff people, some with roots going back to the 1630's.

Incredible historical site. The tour is informative and tells of great ideas they had in the past to get by. Did u know there is a secret sliding whole in the stairs that leads to the basement, and they would put the cat in the whole and he would stay a few days in the basement and catch and eat the mice! It kept the cats belly full as well! Antiques galore too. It is a labor of love for the volunteers who run it. There's even a fishing cottage showing how the fishers lived. A must see!

We went there for the first time and were very positively surprised. The museum is rich. You have the oldest house of Chatham preserved and furnished as it was in the 19th century. You have a museum with multiple collection about shellfish, Coast guard rescue and the Pendelton. fishing, writers of Cape Cod, story of the various town and a FANTASTIC art collection by Alice Stallknecht. That last part is amazing and worth of much larger art museum. This artist was great, and the collection is an amazing testimony of life in a small village during the depression.