"Down the Nile" Noted author Rosemary Mahoney will present a lecture based on her travel memoir Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff. Ms. Mahoney will discuss her 120-mile solo rowing journey down Egypt's storied Nile River.

Time: 6:00 pm

Location: Museum of African American History
46 Joy Street, Boston

Admission: $15 for members of the Nichols House Museum;
$20 for nonmembers.

Reservations are strongly recommended.

Reception for New Members - The Nichols House welcomes new members with a special personalized tour of the museum, with focus on the furnishings collection and recent conservation projects.

Time: 6:00 p.m.

Location: Nichols House Museum
55 Mount Vernon Street, Boston

"Excavations in the Shadows of the Pyramids" - Dr. Rita Freed, Department Chair, Art of the Ancient World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will discuss past excavations conducted by the MFA in Egypt.

Time: 6:00 p.m.

Location: American Meteorological Society
45 Beacon Street, Boston

Admission: $15 for members of the Nichols House Museum;
$20 for nonmembers.

Reservations are strongly recommended.

Reception for New Members - The Nichols House welcomes new members with a special personalized tour of the museum, with focus on the furnishings collection and recent conservation projects.

Time: 6:00 p.m.

Location: Nichols House Museum
55 Mount Vernon Street, Boston

"Into the 21st Century, Digitally" - A demonstration of the museum's online catalogue capabilities will be presented by Carrie Supple, Lead Cataloguer for the Nichols House cataloguing project. This project was funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Location: Nichols House Museum
55 Mount Vernon Street, Boston

Please contact the museum if you would like to attend.

Tribute to Volunteers - The Nichols House's annual celebration to thank its dedicated docents and volunteers.

Time: 4:30 p.m., immediately preceding the Annual Meeting

Location: Nichols House Museum
55 Mount Vernon Street, Boston

Annual Meeting - All members are encouraged to attend. Board and staff will report on the recently completed fiscal year. Annual reports will be distributed. Reception to follow.

Time: 5:30 p.m.

Location: Nichols House Museum
55 Mount Vernon Street, Boston

Please contact the museum if you would like to attend so that we can plan appropriately for seating.

Nichols House Participation in "Annual Beacon Hill Garden Club's Hidden Garden Tour". Reduced admission. Docents and staff will provide room by room commentary on the collection, with engaging stories of the Nichols family and their times.

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Location: Nichols House Museum
55 Mount Vernon Street, Boston

Admission: $5

"A Beacon Hill Legacy" - A special tour focusing on recent conservation efforts of the wooden furnishings of the museum by respected furniture conservators Robert Mussey Associates. The conservation project was funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Tour conducted by museum staff.

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Location: Nichols House Museum
55 Mount Vernon Street, Boston

Please contact the museum if you would like to attend.

Spring Fete - Join us in welcoming the spring with this popular fund raiser where friends and supports of the Nichols House Museum celebrate in the elegant surroundings of The Boston Athenaeum.

Time: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Location: The Boston Athenaeum
10 ½ Beacon Street, Boston

Admission: $100

Please contact the museum for more details.

"Colonial Revival Aesthetics, Rose Nichols Style" - a free tour for our community and visitors focusing on Rose Nichols' thoughts on the Colonial Revival style that swept Boston in the early decades of the 20th century. The tour will be based on Rose Nichols writings on the subject.

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Location: Nichols House Museum
55 Mount Vernon Street, Boston

"Bulfinch on Beacon Hill" - a free tour for our community and visitors with particular emphasis on Federal Period architecture as interpreted by Charles Bulfinch, preeminent Boston architect of the post-Revolutionary period.

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Location: Meet in the front courtyard of the Nichols House
55 Mount Vernon Street, Boston