The All-New Concord Museum is open Thursday to Sunday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm!
The All-New Concord Museum is open Thursday to Sunday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm!
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.
Join us at the Concord Museum on April 1st at 1:00 p.m. for the ceremony of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s 2022 Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize awarded to Robert A. Gross for his book The Transcendentalists and Their World, published in 2021 by Macmillan Publishers. The Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize is given to the best nonfiction work on the history of Massachusetts published during the preceding year.
The ceremony at the Concord Museum will feature Robert A. Gross in conversation with Dennis Fiori, former Concord Museum Executive Director and MHS President Emeritus.
Thursday to Sunday: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Be sure to experience Concord Museum’s new virtual exhibit! Click here to view the exhibit.
Explore his world as Thoreau experienced it. Explore our collection of items from Concord Museum in Thoreau’s World, a new virtual exhibit. Click here to view the exhibit.
In honor of the Concord Free Public Library’s 150th anniversary, the Concord Museum and the Library have collaborated on a special exhibition featuring the Library’s art collection. Featured objects will include paintings by Washington Allston, N.C. Wyeth, May Alcott Nieriker, Charles Hovey Pepper, Alicia Keyes, and Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, among other artists, as well as sculptures depicting noted Concord authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Louisa May Alcott.
The exhibition will also highlight Concord’s artist communities, local art collectors, the history of institutions promoting public access to works of art, and the stories of specific artists, including May Alcott Nieriker, Alicia Keyes, Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, and others who have lived and worked in Concord.
Concord Museum members and the public are invited to view the new special exhibition curated in collaboration with the Concord Free Public Library, A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library.
Curators from the Concord Museum and the Concord Free Public Library lead guided tours of the new special exhibition A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. No advanced registration necessary. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free.
Curators from the Concord Museum and the Concord Free Public Library lead guided tours of the new special exhibition A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. No advanced registration necessary. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free.
Join us at the Concord Museum for the ceremony of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s 2022 Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize awarded to Robert A. Gross for his book The Transcendentalists and Their World, published in 2021 by Macmillan Publishers. The Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize is given to the best nonfiction work on…
Edward S. Cooke, Jr., renowned art historian of Yale University, is joined by Harvard University art historian Suzanne Blier in a conversation on Ned’s newest book Global Objects: Towards a Connected Art History. Global Objects examines a broad array of functional aesthetic objects that transcend geographic and temporal boundaries and challenge preconceived ideas about what…
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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