What to do and see in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts (MA): The Best Things to do Good for a Rainy Day

The Playhouse operates year-round, presenting a wide selection of contemporary and classic plays; nurturing and developing new plays through staged readings, professional workshops and world premieres; and producing many special plays, musical and other types of events on our intimate Patricia Neal Stage in our historic theater in downtown Vineyard Haven.

This is the home of the Martha's Vineyard Film Society, a non-profit arts organization that presents films, festivals and other performing arts offerings throughout the year. Currently, there are five separate film festivals held from April to September: The SPECTRUM Film Festival in April; The MV Environmental Film Festival in May, The FILMusic Festival in June, Doc(umentary) Week in August and the International Film Festival in September. Special events are truly special, often with post-screening Q&A sessions with the filmmakers. In the off-season, there's Met Opera (live from Lincoln Center), National Theatre Live, Bolshoi Ballet from Moscow as well as a wealth of documentaries, arthouse films and hard-to-find gems from around the world. Known for its comfortable seats, great sound system, eclectic concessions and specialty programming, The MV Film Center is a 5-minute walk from the SSA ferry terminal, so don't be surprise to see people from the Cape Cod visiting!

Martha's Vineyard Excursions offers 1, 2, 3, and 4 hour Martha's Vineyard private tours and 3 hour group tours at 10:30am and 1:45pm. We also offer customized Martha's Vineyard tours. Join us in comfortable, 15 passenger, air-conditioned vans with knowledgeable drivers. We can pick up in Oak Bluffs, Vineyard Haven, and Edgartown. We would love to show you our beautiful island.

The Martha's Vineyard Museum (MVM) is a historical and cultural institution collecting art, artifacts, oral histories, documents, and photographs that help tell the stories of Martha's Vineyard from its formation as an island to the present. Founded as the Dukes County Historical Society in 1922, it was officially renamed the Martha's Vineyard Museum in 2006 to better reflect its focus on both collecting the history of the island and presenting, educating, and sharing it with the public. In 2011, MVM purchased the 1895 Marine Hospital site in Vineyard Haven and set out to transform it into a new museum. MVM made the decision to maintain ownership of part of its original Edgartown campus in order to continue to steward the historic Cooke House and create a public garden for the community. In March 2019, the Vineyard Haven site opened to the public with great fanfare and a blockbuster exhibit celebrating the island's profound influence on the work of Thomas Hart Benton.