The ALL-NEW CONCORD MUSEUM IS OPEN TUESDAY TO SUNDAY (10 am to 4 pm) Walk ins welcome!
The ALL-NEW CONCORD MUSEUM IS OPEN TUESDAY TO SUNDAY (10 am to 4 pm) Walk ins welcome!
The Concord Museum in historic Concord, Massachusetts houses one of the oldest and most treasured collections of Americana in the country. Come visit the gateway to Concord’s remarkable revolutionary and literary history.
Concord Museum Forums are a series of public programs held in the Churchill and Janet Franklin Lyceum and virtually to foster dialogue on a diverse range of historical, contemporary, and cultural topics that resonate with Concord’s history. For upcoming Concord Museum Forums be sure to check the Museum’s Calendar. To view past forums click here!
Shown above: Author Thavolia Glymph will discuss her book The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation on September 7, 2022, at 7:00pm. To register click here.
Tuesday to Sunday (10 am to 4 pm)
Walk-ins Welcome.
FREE hop-on, hop-off Concord Trolley shuttle service from MBTA train station to the Concord Museum! 7 days a week. Continuous loop includes downtown Concord and other historic locations. For more information click here.
Be sure to experience Concord Museum’s new virtual exhibit!
The Concord Museum is collaborating with Mass Audubon to present a special exhibition, Alive with Birds: William Brewster in Concord, which is open now through September 5, 2022. William Brewster (1851-1919) was Mass Audubon’s first President. He dedicated over thirty years of his life to the study of birds in Concord at his property, which he called October Farm. For a list of related programs and more information click here.
Join us for an outdoor film screening of Black Panther, Marvel’s 2018 release staring the late Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa a.k.a. the Black Panther. This action-packed, Black-led superhero film is a must-see up on the big screen and under the stars before the fall 2022 release of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Bring a blanket, lawn…
This program is full. Please consider joining us for another program this summer/ fall. Join a Mass Audubon guide in exploring birding hotspots at Mass Audubon’s Brewster’s Woods Wildlife Sanctuary in Concord. We’ll walk in the footsteps of William Brewster, sharing passages from his journals and searching for a variety of migrants on their annual…
This program is full. Please consider signing up for the newly added morning session of the workshop on Wednesday, August 31 at 10:30 a.m. Sign up here. Join us for a linocut workshop with Sherrie York, a celebrated printmaker and instructor, whose work explores the natural world, particularly birds. Sherrie’s reduction linocut Trunk Show [Downy…
Join us for a linocut workshop with Sherrie York, a celebrated printmaker and instructor, whose work explores the natural world, particularly birds. Sherrie’s reduction linocut Trunk Show [Downy Woodpecker] is in Mass Audubon’s collection and currently exhibited in the special exhibition Alive with Birds. In the workshop, students will tour the special exhibit and examine how some of the…
Join Master Cooper Ron Raiselis for a look into the 1700s coopering trade and explore why these highly skilled craftspeople were essential to the commerce and survival of a colony. Ron has served as the resident cooper at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, N.H. since 1985, where he maintains a traditional cooperage shop. Included with…
Join historian Thavolia Glymph in a discussion of her book, The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation, a comprehensive new history of women's roles and lives in the Civil War—North and South, white and black, enslaved and free—showing how women were fully engaged in the military fight, wartime struggles on…
Learn with us! Whether it is learning about the roots of American democracy, the power of independent thinking, preservation of the environment, or the intricacies of craftsmanship, the Concord Museum brings history into the lives of learners of all ages. Visit up close with the famed Revere Lantern, 1775, intricately carved colonial powder horns, Henry David Thoreau’s wooden flute, and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s study filled with his books.
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