The Martha’s Vineyard Museum board of directors announced this week that it has elected a new slate of officers.

Lucy Mitchell's art show is Recollection, at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.

The Island’s first socially-distanced classical music concert took place at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, thrilling an audience that was strictly limited to 25 eager listeners.

From the museum porch, flautist Carol Wincenc and cellist Velléda Miragias played a diverse program that flowed like water into the parched ears of music lovers who sat, in widely-spaced twos and threes, on the lawn below.

The Martha's Vineyard Museum reopens to the public Friday, with admission by timed ticketing.

This year’s recipients of the Martha's Vineyard Museum medals are Skip Finley, Juliana Germani and Steve Bernier. They were presented with their medals at a ceremony earlier this week.

For three years now, the museum has been hard at work restoring the historic Thomas Cooke house property, the site of its original campus, as a public green-space and satellite campus.

The museum reopened its grounds to the public on Friday for the first time since the pandemic hit, but the fanfare will have to wait.

The Martha's Vineyard Museum reopens its campus to the public July 3, with free admission five days a week.

Phil Wallis, who moved to the Vineyard in 2016 to take over the top post at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum will step down, museum leaders said in a press release.

The Martha’s Vineyard Museum invites Islanders to share their stories of history in the making so that future generations will know what it was like to be here during the coronavirus pandemic.