Visit the museum on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for our weekly Open House Tours. No appointment necessary! Learn about the Jones family, the visits of General Gage’s spies and more. You can also view our newly commissioned sculpture by local artist, Paul Angiolillo, titled “Mightier Than the Sword”.

Join us for our next Second Sunday Open House Tours on Sunday, June 8th. Tours will include our new exhibit “Spies Among Us” commemorating the 250th anniversary of General Gage’s spies visiting the museum in February of 1775.

Join us from 1-3 p.m. and learn about six generations of the Jones family living in this house for 200 years! Learn about the unique role that the tavern and Isaac Jones played during the Revolutionary War - including the visits from British Spies, Paul Revere’s men and a Weston Tea Party. See what it was like to live in the Colonial era - our museum is filled with hundreds of artifacts that belonged to the Jones family.

We offer Second Sunday Open House Tours every second Sunday of the month from 1-3 p.m. FEBRUARY to NOVEMBER. Join us for our free, family friendly, public Open House Tours featuring 25 minute tours. In December we have a special week-long holiday event. Dates are occasionally subject to change. Please check our website for any updates!

"Spies Among Us" will open on Thursday, February 6th at 10 a.m. during the museum’s first Thursday opening hours. We will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on February 6th and will be open every Thursday going forward from 10-4. We will also showcase the exhibit during our February Second Sunday Open House on Sunday, February 9th from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

The exhibit will recall the story of General Gage's spies who visited the Tavern in 1775, explore examples of espionage on both sides, and examine the many ways of spying that were used during the American Revolution.

We enjoyed our online lecture with Malcolm F. Purinton, Ph.D., renowned beer historian, professor, author and columnist who turned his love of beer into an academic vocation. He discussed the role of beer and alcohol in Revolutionary times with a very interesting perspective! This lecture will be available on our YouTube channel soon!

You can now find the presentation by Joseph M. Adelman, Ph.D. expounding on the role of taverns in the Revolutionary Era on our YouTube channel. Link HERE.

This talk was presented by The Golden Ball Tavern Museum and the Friends of the Josiah Smith Tavern.

(Image of Golden Ball Tavern Museum’s original taproom).

We welcomed Larry C. Kerpelman for a lecture on “The Plight of Loyalists in Massachusetts.” This lecture was held on October 9th. The recording can be found here.

Jonathan Detwiler of Buttonwood Renovations gave an enlightening architectural tour of the Golden Ball Tavern in October 2023. We look forward to having him return to highlight more of the unique features of our museum. Watch the recording HERE.