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  • RESCHEDULED TO NOV. 7: Why They Marched

    Why They Marched: A Conversation with Susan Ware: RESCHEDULED TO NOVEMBER 7, 2019 For far too long, the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the tale of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born. Join us for a conversation with Susan Ware, as she uncovers a […]

  • Art and Action for Suffrage: Women’s Suffrage Turns 100 Family Program

    Explore the activism and debate around women’s suffrage in Concord.  Using primary materials from the Concord Museum Collection, participants will examine the variety of printed materials from both sides of the debate. Through close-looking and thinking routines, participants will determine what makes effective and convincing propaganda. 100 years after women gained the right to vote, what […]

  • POSTPONED: Black Devil and Gentle Cloud: Ruskin and Emerson at Odds

    Program Postponed: Unfortunately, the August 15 Concord Museum Forum with Sara Atwood on Black Devil and Gentle Cloud: Ruskin and Emerson at Odds, has been postponed. We are working to reschedule this Forum, and will post updated information as soon as possible. John Ruskin and Ralph Waldo Emerson are among the 'representative men' of the Victorian period […]

  • Women of Concord Walking Tour

    Walk through town and focus on the notable women who shaped Concord’s history.  The tour highlights famous historical figures as Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller, to those who are less well known, such as Ellen Garrison and Mary Merrick Brooks. Walking Tour tickets gain you free same-day admission to the Concord Museum, including the […]

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    Women of Concord Collection Spotlight

    Featuring intimate imagery from the Concord Museum’s collection, explore the lives and legacies of women who have shaped and continue to shape the American experience with Concord Museum curator David Wood. Included with Museum admission; Members free. Program seating is first come first serve. Image: Inscribed Leaf. Sophia E. Thoreau, October 13, 1868. Shagbark hickory, ink. […]

  • SOLD OUT I Want to Go to Jail

    SOLD OUT - Thank you for your interest in our programs.  Please join us for other upcoming forums in September including The Scrapbooks of Helen Thoreau and The Cabinet Maker's Account. A staged reading of “I Want to Go to Jail”, an original play by Pamela Swing, Ph.D., and Elizabeth Dabanka, Brandeis undergraduate performed in period […]

  • POSTPONED Monument Maker

    POSTPONED - Thank you for your interest in our programs! Monument Maker with Linda Sweeney and Shawn Fields has been rescheduled to Sunday, December 15 at 11:00 AM. 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.  […]

  • Celebrate the Apple: Family Open House

    Apples have been the center of the New England harvest since the British first brought seeds and cuttings across the Atlantic in the 17th century.  Now, New England’s apple orchards grow some 40 varieties of apples, providing fruit to snack on as well as for juices, ciders, pies, and desserts.  Participate in hands-on programming pressing […]

  • The Scrapbooks of Helen Thoreau

    Middlebury College professor William Nash will discuss what can be learned about Helen Thoreau and Concord through the scrapbooks she kept chronicling events of the 1840's - two of which are part of the Middlebury Library's Special Collections. A witty and engaging speaker, Will Nash is Professor of American Studies and English and American Literatures […]

  • The Cabinetmaker’s Account

    Jay Robert Stiefel, historian of Colonial Philadelphia society and its material culture, will introduce the life and work of English emigrant joiner John Head (1688-1754). Head’s Philadelphia account book is the earliest and most complete to have survived from any cabinetmaker working in either Great Britain or British North America. The culmination of nearly 20 […]

  • Along Battle Road Walking Tour

    Visitors will follow in Paul Revere’s footsteps as we retrace the journey he took on horseback the night of April 18, 1775 to warn colonists about the approach of the British regulars. First-person interpreters playing Concord residents who were eyewitnesses to the events of that fateful night and day will add a deeper level of […]

  • Film Screening of Nature: A Walking Play

    The Concord Museum and The Old Manse welcome you a screening of Nature: A Walking Play (TigerLion Arts), which tells the story of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau’s friendship. The film documents the unique outdoor play which captures the complex relationship between these two characters and nature itself.  Following the screening, the audience […]