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Sat.
June 13th
2 PM
Second Saturdays at AAIM — The Making of the Museum
As the Attleboro Area Industrial Museum rounds the corner on 51 remarkable years, we’re taking a step back to share the full story. Learn about the history of the organization, where we came from, the visionaries who founded us, the mission that has guided us, and the exciting road ahead. This event also marks a special opportunity to bring our 50th Anniversary Campaign across the finish line. We’re just $12,000 away from our goal and every gift, large or small, moves us closer. Details on how to contribute and be a part of the next fifty years will be shared at the event.
Light refreshments will be served. Bring your family, bring your friends, and come ready to be proud of what this community has built together.
This event is free and open to the public.
Questions? Email director@industrialmuseum.com or call (508) 222-3918.
Sat.
Aug 8th
2PM - 4PM
Second Saturdays: Please Return This Bottle
Please Return This Bottle features a collection of vintage bottles largely dating to the first half of the 20th century, offering visitors a window into not only what people were buying, but how those products were marketed and sold.
Many of the bottles on display bear embossed or raised lettering identifying the bottling company, its location, the product’s intended use, and its date of manufacture — details that made the bottle and its contents inseparable in the eyes of consumers.
These artifacts also hold significance beyond marketing history. Archaeologists frequently use bottles to help date historical sites, since manufacturers regularly changed bottle shapes and hallmarks throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Medicine bottles in particular can offer clues about the illnesses people treated, their spending habits, and whether they shopped locally or ordered goods from afar.
Please Return This Bottle is presented as part of AAIM’s Second Saturdays series, held from 2:00PM to 4:00PM on the second Saturday of each month.
This event is free and open to the public.
We hope to see you there!
Thurs.
Feb. 26th
5:00 - 7:30PM
Planting Attleboro’s Pocket Forest - Presentation
Attleboro is taking steps to reduce flood and stormwater damage and increase drought resilience by creating a “Pocket Forest” with a great diversity of tree species that will collaborate to deepen soils that absorb and hold water, many times that of a stand of a single tree species.
Volunteers are being scheduled for April 2026 to plant 500 native trees and shrubs of over forty different species in a circular plot near Capron Park Zoo and Attleboro High School.
During a reception, 5:15 to 6:00 pm, Attleboro High School students will present posters and projects that demonstrate the benefits of planting a pocket forest.
Presentations begin at 6:00pm.
Deanna Wells-Scott, AHS Marine Science Teacher, and Chris Hitchener, lead education coordinator for Mass Audubon’s Oak Knoll Wildlife Sanctuary, will discuss Attleboro’s connections to the sea and the work of AHS Marine Science students.
Kirby Ruggieri, an AHS Environmental Science teacher, will discuss life in soils and how a diverse range of forty native woody plants, trees, and shrubs can be a much better carbon sponge, holding water, than a stand of just a few tree species.
John Rogan, PhD, Geography Professor, Human-Environment Regional Observatory, Clark University, will present the work of Clark Students monitoring and measuring the climate resilience of two Miyawaki pocket forests in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Rob Moir, PhD, Executive Director of the Ocean River Institute, will discuss how plant diversity, when applied using methods developed by botanist Akira Miyawaki, improves stormwater management, reduces flooding, and increases drought resilience.
The Industrial Revolution began in Attleboro in 1780 with the opening of a brass button factory. The Earth Rehydration Revolution, a grassroots environmental movement, focuses on restoring the “small water cycle” by keeping rainwater in the soil instead of letting it runoff into the ocean, which helps reduce the heat-trapping effects of water vapor in the atmosphere and cools the local climate.
It starts here in Attleboro. Come learn about the plans for a Pocket Forest in our backyard, and discover how you can make a lasting difference with a spade and a sapling.
Kelly Bergeron and AHS’s media team, “Blue Reporters,” will film the event.
Questions? Email director@industrialmuseum.com or call us at (508) 222-3918.
