The ALL- NEW CONCORD MUSEUM IS OPEN TUESDAY TO SUNDAY (10:00 am to 4:00 pm) WALK-INS WELCOME!
The ALL- NEW CONCORD MUSEUM IS OPEN TUESDAY TO SUNDAY (10:00 am to 4:00 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-person 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. Did you miss a forum you would like to see? For past forums click here. Shown above is a recent forum with Harvard University Professor Tiya Miles who discusses her new book All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake.
Tuesday to Sunday (10 am to 4 pm)
Walk-ins Welcome!
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SEPTEMBER 6 through SEPTEMBER 12
In celebration of Concord’s Birthday and the Opening of Concord Museum’s new permanent galleries. Click here for for more information or check our calendar page for a complete schedule!
Don’t miss Concord Museum’s new award winning April 19, 1775 galleries! The special exhibition Every Path Laid Open: Women of Concord and the Quest for Equality is open now through November 7, 2021.
Be sure to experience Concord Museum’s new virtual exhibition!
Concord Museum just opened three new permanent galleries chronicling the events of April 19, 1775 and their revolutionary effect on American history. The oft-told story of the battle at Concord’s North Bridge comes to life in dramatic new and more inclusive ways to recount the fateful moment when the first shots were fired and the American Revolution began. “This new April 19,1775 exhibition marries the Museum’s iconic artifacts with a multi-dimensional narrative to the foundational story like it has never been told before,” stated the Museum’s President Ralph Earle.
Join us for the 26th Annual Golf Tournament at the beautiful Concord Country Club! Enjoy a full day of fun featuring a Bramble format with on-course contests, luncheon, and a reception and awards ceremony. This highly anticipated annual event draws players and sponsors from the greater Boston area for a lively day full of friendly…
In her ambitious one-volume historical survey, These Truths: A History of the United States, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer, Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history. In this wide-ranging conversation, she will discuss the…
Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard Law School Professor and Pulitzer-Prize winner for The Hemingses of Monticello, will discuss her newest book, On Juneteenth which provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through…
Join us for a performance with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers, a group of musicians and artisans from the tribal communities of Mashpee on Cape Cod and Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard on Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Participate in the performance of eastern social songs and dances accompanied by a water drum and handcrafted rattles. This…
In Now Comes Good Sailing, a number of today’s leading writers offer wide-ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them—and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate, racial, and technological reckoning. This virtual event, co-sponsored by the Concord Museum and the Thoreau Society, will feature the following writers: Jennifer…
Novelists Sue Miller and Doug Bauer will read from and discuss their respective family memoirs, The Story of My Father and What Happens Next? Matters of Life and Death. The author of ten best-selling novels, Sue Miller’s The Story of My Father, was heralded as a “beautiful, spare memoir about her relationship with her father…
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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