Flynt Center of Early New England Life — Attraction in Deerfield

This was a really neat experience! We got groupon codes to check this museum out as well as two of the houses in the historic Deerfield area. Masks are required, parking is behind the loop when you pull into the area (watch for signs pointing towards the back for parking), and bathrooms are located inside on the right hand side of the hallway where the receptionist desk sits. The staff were very informative and gave us plenty of space as we traversed their building.

The museum was very fascinating; there are about three main areas in this building. One large room is dedicated to wood, furniture, and the history pertaining to multiple types of styles of wood. It was really cool seeing the large portrait of all the different types of wood one would encounter throughout the historic district. I really appreciated some of the displays they had; there was one cabinet in particular that stood next to a makeshift cabinet with it's drawers inside of it (allowing you to see the craftsmanship on the inside of the cabinet) which I've rarely seen done in other museums.

The second place is on the second floor (you take a large elevator up) and consists of a large warehouse of several pieces of furniture, kitchen appliances, weapons, you name it, they got it! Each piece is categorized by a nomenclature and one can find more information about it on their website by searching the nomenclature (they provide a QR code to their website at the desk closer to the back of the room). There were some really cool historic pieces in here! I admired their display of rifles and some of the furniture pieces they had. My group had a lot of questions about different pieces so it was much easier accessing this information through my phone versus trying to find someone to explain it.

The third place is across the receptionist desk working one's way towards the wood room (textiles room). This room was a little small compared to the other two rooms, but enlightens one to what someone could be wearing during these times.

Another thing to note is their vast collection of powdered horns. They are actually really fascinating, and I recommend speaking to a staff about them. They highlighted some insightful connections between the time of powdered horns to modern times through the artwork sketched on them.

Overall, the place was very clean, very professional, and it gave a wonderful lens to that time.

I definitely recommend the house tours! We went to two of them; the first one was only first level access. The tourguide was informative and very keen on cleanliness. The second tour went through the years of 1725 to 1800s with each room of the house tour being a specific decade. It was wonderfully insightful and very...

This place has some great exhibits on the history of life in early New England. There is an amazing room of antique furniture, some of which I wish I could own. It has some stellar examples of what fine craftsmanship should look like. Nothing like that cheap Ikea krap.

Another room was dedicated to textiles, and boy howdy did they ever have some old linens. There were some items in such good shape it was hard not to believe them to be modern reproductions.

No trip to here would be complete without visiting the upstairs attic, where they have ~2500 (or 25000: I forgot where the decmal lies) items covering a few hundred years of home furnishings and accessories. The newest item I saw was nearly one hundred years of age, with most everything else much older.

A fine...

If you are coming from Springfield Armory you need to allow 3 hours on public transport , but if you are an avgas burning terrorist GO FOR IT‼️ Deerfield denizens love being invaded by crass God Fearing Armed Posses BUT history buffs will be disappointed ÷+÷+÷ no mention of genocide ; " King Phillip's War " . . . extermination of the Massachusetts Nation ....