Events
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Connecticut Valley Furniture by Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750–1800
Masterworks of Connecticut 18th-century furniture from the Connecticut Historical Society Museum and other public and private collections included 23 pieces ranging from high chests to candlestands and dressing tables to […]
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David Sibley’s Birds
Over 50 original watercolor paintings by America’s most gifted contemporary illustrator of birds, David Allen Sibley, were on view at the Concord Museum in the first major exhibition of this […]
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A Main Street Point of View
From multi-generation family businesses to new enterprises, from clock and cabinetmakers to butchers and milliners, hardware stores and apothecaries, through change and continuity, A Main Street Point of View celebrated the economic […]
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The Purse and the Person: A Century of Women’s Purses
While archaeologists may create a picture of an individual from a cache of artifacts buried deep in the earth, this exhibition brought together life stories buried right under our noses—in […]
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Needles & Haystacks: Pastoral Imagery in American Needlework from the Winterthur Collection
Featuring exquisite needlework pictures of idyllic country scenes created by schoolgirls in early America, the exhibition gave a new twist to the traditional focus on the landscape that is so […]
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A Splash of Blue
The color blue made a splash in this blue-ribbon exhibition featuring all things blue from the Concord Museum’s wide-ranging collection. Fashion and furniture, tableware and textiles, art and advertising lit […]
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Building Thoreau’s Boat
This exhibition had as its centerpiece the reconstruction of a boat like the one Henry Thoreau and his brother John rowed and sailed in a trip they took from Concord, […]
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American Style: Russell Kettell’s Pine Furniture
In the 1920s and 30s, Russell Kettell, collector and author of the now classic books Pine Furniture and Early American Rooms, defined an aesthetic that helped shape the appreciation of […]
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Seasonings
The four seasons—winter, spring, summer and fall—evoke distinctive individual memories, yet often with universal appeal. This engaging exhibition drew from the artifacts in the Concord Museum’s rich and varied collection […]
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Street Smarts
In Concord, we often say, there is history on every street corner. And at the Concord Museum, we take that literally. How and when were today’s streets named? The answers […]
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Setting the President’s Table: American Presidential China from the McNeil Americana Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
This special exhibition showcased over 100 pieces of porcelain used by American presidents from Washington to Lincoln and Roosevelt to Reagan as they entertained the world’s heads of state, distinguished literati, business leaders and cultural luminaries at the national “First Table.” This visual history of the American presidency was sure to fascinate anyone with an […]
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A Dedication to Craft: North Bennet Street School @ 125
This juried exhibition of furniture, jewelry, musical instruments and fine bookbindings was crafted by 55 distinguished alumni of the renowned North Bennet Street School in celebration of the 125th anniversary of the founding of the school in Boston’s North End.