For a full list of programs, please visit the Calendar
November 21, 2019
Image: Painter unknown. Commander William Boerum. About 1837. Oil on canvas. Collection of Anna and Neil Rasmussen.
December 7, 2019
The Museum is thrilled to host the 9th Annual Holiday House Tour on Saturday, December 7, 2019. Celebrate the Holiday Season with a tour of seven of Concord's most beautiful private homes, professionally and personally decorated in the holiday spirit by local interior designers! We hope to see you on the Tour!
Earlybird pricing now through December 5: Members $40; Non-Members $50 December 6 and Day-of ticket pricing: Members $45; Non-Members $55
Register below.
ACM Donuts LLC, Dunkin' | The Pesce Family Bert Rosengarten Antiques Cambridge Savings Bank Nashoba Brook Bakery Platt Builders, Inc. Seasons Four W by Worth | Wendy McNally
June 5, 2020
Join us for the 31st Annual Garden Tour, a benefit organized by the Concord Museum Guild of Volunteers featuring outstanding private gardens in the Concord area on Friday, June 5 and Saturday, June 6, 2020
June 6, 2020
Join us for the 31st Annual Garden Tour, a benefit organized by the Concord Museum Guild of Volunteer featuring outstanding private gardens in the Concord area on Saturday, June 5 and Sunday, June 6, 2020.
November 27, 2019
Wednesday, November 27 through Sunday, January 5, 2020 (closed Thanksgiving, November 28, Christmas Eve, December 24 & Christmas Day, December 25) Join us for the 24th Annual display of Family Trees: A Celebration of Children's Literature, a beloved holiday tradition for the Greater Boston area. Enjoy 39 fanciful trees and wreaths creatively decorated by Museum volunteers to illustrate treasured and new favorite children's books. We are thrilled to welcome Pamela Zagarenski, Illustrator of Zola's Elephant and two-time Caldecott-honor winning artist, as this year's Honorary Chair. Please click here to view the 2019 booklist. Family Trees is organized by the Concord Museum's Guild of Volunteers as a benefit to support the Museum's education initiatives. This year's Guild of Volunteers Co-Chairs are Pam Nelson and Lyn Carroll. Benefit Admission to support the Museum's education initiatives; Museum Members Free.
December 14, 2019
Join us as Bindy Fleischman and Nancy Traversy discuss books that open children’s hearts, minds, and provide authentic perspectives and voices from around the world. Included with Museum admission. Members visit free Bindy Fleischman has been an active member of the U.S. Board on Books for Young People since 2002, serving on multiple committees now representing Massachusetts as our state Ambassador. She is a children’s librarian and museum educator, and is currently a member of the English Language Arts team at the German International School of Boston. Nancy Traversy is the Co-founder of Barefoot Books, a children’s book publishing company celebrating diversity and imagination. Nancy has always been an avid explorer of world cultures, moving from Toronto to London in 1985 where she worked for many years in the London design industry before starting Barefoot Books from her home in North London with Tessa Strickland. In 2001, Nancy crossed the Atlantic to Concord, MA where she could be closer to her North American business. For Nancy, living Barefoot is creating beautiful, magical and authentic stories and art and bringing these to a grassroots, global community of people who care about how our next generation of children is raised.
December 15, 2019
Know what you love. Make what you love. Join author Linda Sweeney and illustrator Shawn Fields in a program about the life and artwork of Concord-sculptor Daniel Chester French. In the new award-winning book, Monument Maker, a young Daniel Chester French finds a passion and talent for making sculptures. This love only grows over the years and culminates in his largest artistic endeavor – The Lincoln Memorial.
This family-oriented talk will include discussions with the audience, close-looking activities, and at the end of the program, participants will sculpt their own masterpiece of what they love to bring home. Appropriate for all ages.
Linda Sweeney is a writer and educator who began writing this book while living in Daniel Chester French's former studio in Concord, Massachusetts. Her picture books for children include Where the Wind Blows and she is also the author of The Systems Thinking Playbook and other books to help people of all ages see and understand complex systems.
Shawn Fields is an artist best known for his narrative oil paintings. He lives with his wife, three children, and their dog Yogi in a small rural town in western Massachusetts. In the winter they love to hang around the woodstove after walking in the snow. In the summer their favorite thing to do is to get hot and sweaty working and playing, then jump in the river that runs past their house.
Monument Maker will be available for purchase and signing by the author and illustrator in partnership with the Concord Bookshop.
With Museum Admission. No advanced registration required.December 15, 2019
Meet some of the accomplished authors and illustrators whose books are featured in Family Trees: A Celebration of Children’s Literature. Explore the decorated forest of trees throughout the Museum Education Center, and visit with authors and illustrators as they sign your books. Free with Family Trees admission; Members free.
Included with Museum Admission.
January 5, 2020
Last chance to see Family Trees today, January 5, 2020
A beloved Boston area tradition and now in its 24th year, come admire over 36 fancifully decorated Holiday Trees and Wreaths throughout the Concord Museum. Each tree is individually decorated and inspired by the story line and characters from a favorite children’s book. 2019 Lead Sponsor is Barefoot Books. Free with Museum admission.
