“Gloucester’s So Salty” Fourth Annual Festival

To celebrate the fish city’s recognizably salty character, the Gloucester’s So Salty festival is back on Jan. 25 and Jan. 26, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Cape Ann Museum is partnering with Discover Gloucester and other area cultural institutions and businesses for the fourth annual event. The celebration will feature two days of family-friendly and free programming around downtown Gloucester, including ice sculptures, live music, salty treats, free kids’ art activities and more. 

The 2024 celebration brought together over 1,800 people to share their Gloucester pride while enjoying free ice sculptures and cultural activities around the city. The 2025 ice sculptures, which are created by Donald Chapelle from Brilliant Ice in North Andover, are sponsored by the Cape Ann Museum, Cape Ann Accommodations, Cape Ann Savings Bank, Machaca Mexican Restaurant & Cantina, The Sargent House Museum, and the Sawyer Free Library, Oak to Ember and Lockwood Studios.

A featured ice sculpture on view outside the Museum’s Downtown campus will be inspired by the Museum’s recently inaugurated Portrait of a Sculptor: Walker Hancock & Michael Lafferty exhibition. The show, which is free and open to the public, features photographs inside the Gloucester studio of renowned sculptor Walker Hancock (1901-1998) and will be open both days of the festival, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Cape Ann Museum Green campus, 13 Poplar Street, Gloucester.  

For more information about the Cape Ann Museum, visit capeannmuseum.org. 

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