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Museum

Sandy Spring Museum, where the past is shaping the future, every day.

What difference can a museum make in today’s world?  History museums bring essential cultural strength to every society where they exist, and Sandy Spring Museum provides that unique service here in Montgomery County.  

Sandy Spring Museum brings people together across every potential barrier, whether of age, culture, education, politics, or belief.  We explore differences to find common ground.  We “meet” people from history whose behavior can instruct – or inspire!   We nurture hands-on skills rooted in the past that have new meaning in a world concerned with sustainability.  At lectures, exhibits, music concerts, art shows, special events, in school programs or in the beautifully landscaped gardens, Montgomery County people connect through the Museum. 

Sandy Spring Museum keeps the treasures of the past safe for the future to use.  Each generation seeks something new from the past to help meet the challenges of the present.  Sandy Spring Museum holds the stuff that tells all the stories – the furniture, letters, clothing, business records, plows and harrows, family histories, cooking pots, quilts, quills, and more.  Each piece of our collection is a window on how people built the world that we inherited, and a clue to how we can shape the future. 

Sandy Spring Museum brings the world to town and promotes this community to the world.  People come to Montgomery County to buy homes, build businesses, raise families, and vacation, thanks to the area’s rural beauty, open cultural atmosphere, and rich civic life.  Over the centuries, those same qualities made this small community a source of state and national leaders in technology, politics, human rights, and education.  The Museum keeps that legacy alive, nurturing a vision that strengthens the local economy, now and for years to come.

Not every community has a museum to help keep it strong and welcoming, but our community does.  The Sandy Spring Museum was established in 1981 as the community was experiencing a rapid change in population and personality.  Ours is a history rich in social reform, progressive farming, innovation, education, and cultural achievement.   At Sandy Spring Museum, programs encourage informed thought, events build social connection, and school programs foster learning and achievement.  You can claim your place in the continuing legacy by becoming part of how the past shapes the future, every day.