Old Sturbridge Village’s collection consists of over 60,000 artifacts made or used by rural New Englanders between 1790 and 1840. The online collection represents a selection of artifact records from the OSV collection, organized by use or material. These pages are updated, with new records added, on a regular basis. The initial launch of records includes objects that have been fully photographed and documented, representing some of the museum’s most popular artifacts.

To start your search, choose a category of artifacts that interests you, or type in a word or phrase to search for. The search function will search an artifact's name, description, keywords and materials fields for the search term.