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Take a virtual tour

Explore the museum from your own home until we reopen with our normal visiting hours.

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Visit the Museum

The property has about 75 acres of farmland, a pond, and a small granite quarry (now a certified vernal pool).

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Our Button Collection

Big or small, glass or metal, ivory or seashell… there are thousands of buttons on display at the museum!

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History awaits

History was important to Myra and the museum contains many examples of this interest.

2023 Events

The museum will reopen on Sunday, April 2, 2023 with our Open House event. Please continue to visit our website or our Facebook page for ongoing program announcements.

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2023 Events

The museum will reopen on Sunday, April 2, 2023 with our Open House event. Please continue to visit our website or our Facebook page for ongoing program announcements.

FULL LIST OF EVENTS »

Welcome to the Keep Homestead Museum

Name: Friends of the Keep Homestead Museum Meeting
Start: 2023-04-02T15:30:00-04:00
End: 2023-04-02T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Keep Homestead Museum

The Keep Homestead Museum will open for the season on April 2, 2023. Plan your visit here.

Visit our website often for more details about new exhibits and upcoming events in 2023! You can still explore the museum now with our virtual tour.

Questions? Call 413-267-4137 for more information.

The most unique button collection in New England!

When Myra Keep Lovell Moulton died in 1988, the last of a long line of Keeps in Monson, she willed her property, its contents and an endowment fund to the town with two stipulations:

It must be opened to the public on one day during the first year after acceptance of the property.

It must be named the Keep Homestead Museum.

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Keep Homestead Museum1 month ago

Wow! Those industrial revolutionaries back in 1867 sure knew how to design a machine! What a graceful beauty.

Keep Homestead Museum1 month ago

I've only been involved with the Keep Museum for a few years, but was amazed that I'd never heard about the original NYC Big Button, nor it's recent replacement!

This seems appropriate for the folks who visit our museum and for those who hold the existence of a button museum in their town as a special attribute.

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Keep Homestead Museum2 months ago

There are many FB pages for button collectors from groups all around the country and further away.
This post from the National Button Society caught my eye today and I thought visitors to the Keep Museum page would enjoy seeing it, too.