SCM is a a campus museum located on a rural parkland in the heart of Narragansett, RI. there is sense of stepping back in time as you pass through a development of homes and come upon a wooden gate opening on to a pastoral scene of pasture and buildings. The museum captures the essence of life in the rural coastal villages through exhibits and living history demonstrations. A lettepress printing exhibit has one of the finest collections in New England. A working forge in the Blacksmith Exhibit was constructed by Narragansett Indian stonemasons. Over 20,000 artifacts donated by Rhode Island families are used to tell the stories of our past.

Organized in 1933 as the first history museum of its kind in Rhode Island, the museum moved four times. its present location is on the site of the former estate of RI Civil War Governor, William Sprague and his wife, Kate Chase Sprague.