• Canceled: A Visit with President Lincoln

    This program has been canceled.  Thank you for your interest; we hope you can attend more programs in the future. The Museum is pleased to again host Steve Wood and […]

  • Elizabeth Kolbert on the Nature of the Future

    Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Kolbert will discuss her newest book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future in which she examines humanity’s transformative impact on the environment […]

  • These Precious Days: A Conversation with Ann Patchett

    https://youtu.be/aSMJrbpzwDM Novelist and essayist Ann Patchett will discuss her newest collection of essays, These Precious Days, in which she reflects on questions of home, family, friendships, and writing. Advanced registration […]

  • Vesper Flights: A Conversation with Helen Macdonald

    https://youtu.be/waJXZ5j0pBk H is for Hawk memoirist, Helen Macdonald, will discuss her newest collection of essays, Vesper Flights in which she reflects on “the numinous” of nature – “those moments where […]

  • A Conversation with Ornithologist Scott Edwards

    https://youtu.be/c_pE5MP3tzo Harvard professor and Curator of Ornithology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Scott Edwards discusses his research on the processes that have generated biodiversity using birds as models to […]

  • Finding Beauty in a Broken World

    Join author and conservationist, Terry Tempest Williams, as she discusses her literary ancestors (Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller) and her most recent essay collection, Erosion, in which she asks: "How do […]

  • A Reading and Conversation with Billy Collins

    “Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising – the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins poem. He’s an American treasure” writes Nick Laird.  In […]

  • Birds of Prey Wildlife Encounter

    Join the waitlist. Meet birds of prey and learn about their importance to the ecosystem with an educator from Mass Audubon.  Species may include owls, falcons, hawks, vultures and eagles.  […]

  • Power and Liberty: A Conversation with Gordon Wood

    https://youtu.be/v57quJolSvs Annual Mary Lesneski Memorial Lecture Brown University professor, Gordon Wood, will discuss his new book, Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution, in which he distills a lifetime […]

  • The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj98x8AUUd0 Join Scott Weidensaul, naturalist and ornithologist, as he celebrates the natural world—particularly birds—in his newest book, A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds, conveying the […]

  • In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

    https://youtu.be/pgAmjOawzLg In his new book, Six Walks, award-winning author and artist, Ben Shattuck depicts six journeys from Cape Cod to Mount Katahdin that were once taken by Thoreau.  According to […]