Adult Program
Events
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Curator Spotlight Talk: Revolutionary Legacies
FeaturedJoin Curator and Director of Exhibitions Christie Jackson and Curator David Wood for a gallery talk in the new special exhibition Revolutionary Legacies. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free.
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Concord’s Black History | History Happy Hour
FeaturedCelebrate Juneteenth and explore Concord’s rich Black and Abolitionist histories through objects from the Museum’s collection. Learn about John Garrison (pictured here) who lived and worked in Concord in the 1800s […]
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From Concord and Lexington: New Perspective on the Revolution
FeaturedThe Concord Museum, in partnership with Lexington History Museums, presents an engaging program highlighting new research and evolving interpretations from the communities at the center of the start of the […]
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Goodwin Band: Then Rain, Then Wind
FeaturedGoodwin will be performing their third studio release: “Then Rain, Then Wind.” Collaborating with poets across time and space, this album brings aged yet ever salient words to a new generation. Setting the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Rabindranath Tagore, Charles Baudelaire, Langston Hughes, and Li Qinghzhao to music, Goodwin has reached across the globe and through time to create a work that highlights the […]
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Revolutionary Legacies | History Happy Hour
FeaturedCelebrate the Museum’s special exhibition, Revolutionary Legacies, with a special guided tour following a festive happy hour of wine, beer, and light refreshments in the Museum’s courtyard. Reflect on the nation’s founding principles, their continuous reinterpretation over the past 250 years, and consider what they mean today through textiles, ceramics, and relics from the 19th century. Oysters and shrimp cocktail are sponsored by Janine Olson, Merrill a Bank of […]
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FULL! Walt Whitman’s American Dream
FeaturedAs the country celebrates its 250th Anniversary, enjoy a staged reading and discussion of the new play Walt Whitman’s American Dream by Sarah Vander Schaaff, directed by Brendon Fox, Artistic Director of the renowned Peterborough Players. A juicy biopic, the play stirs the bigger questions still at the heart of our experience; the ensemble of characters includes Concord’s own, Ralph Waldo […]
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Liberty for Whom? Untold Stories of Revolutionary Massachusetts
FeaturedAs Massachusetts and America mark 250 years since the Revolution, join us for a panel that explores historically and presently the meaning of liberty. Featuring Joe McGill, Jr. (Slave Dwelling Project), artist Jennifer Davis Carey (Redemption series, a few pieces will be on view), and historian Lauren McCormack of Freedom's Way National Heritage Area (formerly of the Marblehead Museum, where she led the […]
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Concord’s Literary Lineage | History Happy Hour
FeaturedJoin us for an evening of society to celebrate the illustrious literary and transcendentalist history of Concord with wine, beer, and other beverages in the courtyard, followed by a tour […]
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We Were Friends: To Bed/Eggs
FeaturedAward-winning Firelight Theatre Workshop presents We Were Friends: To Bed/Eggs, an episodic project of Firelight’s playful reimagining of Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s profound friendship set in today’s world. A late-night […]
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Staff Picks from the Collection | History Happy Hour
FeaturedBeat the heat with wine, ice-cold beer, and other beverages in our courtyard, followed by a specially curated tour of staff favorites from the Concord Museum’s collection. From beloved hidden […]
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The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier
FeaturedJoin us for an evening with Megan Kate Nelson as she explores the captivating lives of women and men moving through the American West—Indigenous peoples, Black Americans, Mexican Americans, and Canadian and […]