Major Taylor Museum

06/04/2026

Every year on June 3, World Bicycle Day 2026 is designed to celebrate our favourite piece of machinery in human history.

06/04/2026

Mark your calendars! Celebrate Juneteenth with us and the !🧡

06/03/2026

Happy World Bicycle Day!

06/03/2026

06/03/2026

MassBike is Massachusett's Statewide Bicycle Advocacy Group. Our Mission is to Improve Bicycling Across the State Through Legislation, Education & Outreach.

05/27/2026

05/21/2026

We had a great morning at the Shrewsbury Council on Aging Department and Senior Center -- thanks for being such a fantastic audience and letting us talk about the museum and share Major Taylor's story!

05/13/2026

After Frederick Douglass published his first autobiography and publicly identified himself as a freedom seeker, it quickly became clear that he could not remain a free man in the United States. To avoid being kidnapped and dragged back into enslavement in the South, Douglass was forced to flee to Europe, where he remained for 21 long months.

His opportunity to return to the land of his birth presented itself when a group of wealthy British abolitionists sympathized with his story and pooled their funds to buy his freedom from his enslaver, Hugh Auld, for a total of £150 (about $700 in US currency). Many abolitionists, including Douglass himself, were conflicted about this turn of events—though it was ultimately for his benefit, was it not against their philosophy to admit, even implicitly, that a man’s freedom could be bought and sold at all?

Though Douglass considered moving his family to England, he ultimately returned to the United States because he felt that his work towards abolition would be more impactful there.

Image Credit: NPS

05/12/2026

Save the Date! Juneteenth Flag Raising

🗓️ Friday, June 19, 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM
📍 YWCA Central Massachusetts
1 Salem Square, Worcester, MA

05/12/2026