Events

The Great Falls Discovery Center hosts community programs and events, rotating art exhibits in our Great Hall and a Coffee House hosted by the Friends of the Great Falls Discovery Center.

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Ongoing – Great Hall Exhibit: A First-Class Machine Shop *

Great Falls Discovery Center 2 Avenue A, Turners Falls

Our Great Hall building here at the center was once a machine shop for the Montague Paper Company. This exhibit examines the critical supporting role that metalworking and machining had […]

Free

Ongoing: Indoor StoryWalk® — Under the Snow

Great Falls Discovery Center 2 Avenue A, Turners Falls

Explore the lives of active and resting winter wildlife, in the book, Under the Snow, by Melissa Stewart. For ages 3 and up, accompanied by an adult. Meet at the […]

Free

Forgotten Immigrants: The Bohemians of Turners Falls

Great Falls Discovery Center 2 Avenue A, Turners Falls

Beginning in the 1870s, drawn by the promise of work at the John Russell Cutlery factory, almost 300 Bohemian immigrants left farms in central Europe to start life anew in […]

Free