Events
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The Birds: Outdoor Film Screening
Hitchcock’s terrifying and memorable masterpiece The Birds exemplifies how birds have made their way into all aspects of the human experience, including art and culture. While the special exhibition Alive with Birds celebrates the species and conservation of their habitat, our avian subjects are cast in a more treacherous light in the 1963 classic film […]
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Grave Detectives Walking Tour
Tour the first burial ground in Concord dating to c. 1636 learning about past Concordians with a Museum educator. Explore the classic iconography of New England headstones that feature winged skulls or “death’s head”, urns, willows, and others.
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A Walk with Louisa and Ellen
This program is full. Please consider joining us for another program this summer and fall. "To spend the day at their house was a rapturous event," Ellen Emerson wrote to a friend in 1869, remembering her friends, the Alcott girls. Join us for a walking tour highlighting the objects and homes of remarkable women of […]
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Black Panther: Outdoor Film Screening
Join us for an outdoor film screening of Black Panther, Marvel’s 2018 release staring the late Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa a.k.a. the Black Panther. This action-packed, Black-led superhero film is a must-see up on the big screen and under the stars before the fall 2022 release of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Bring a blanket, lawn […]
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Alive with Birds Family Weekend
Drop by to learn about bird nests through a craft activity.
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Early Bird Walking Tour of Brewster’s Woods
This program is full. Please consider joining us for another program this summer/ fall. Join a Mass Audubon guide in exploring birding hotspots at Mass Audubon’s Brewster’s Woods Wildlife Sanctuary in Concord. We’ll walk in the footsteps of William Brewster, sharing passages from his journals and searching for a variety of migrants on their annual […]
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Linocut Printmaking Workshop
This program is full. Please consider signing up for the newly added morning session of the workshop on Wednesday, August 31 at 10:30 a.m. Sign up here. Join us for a linocut workshop with Sherrie York, a celebrated printmaker and instructor, whose work explores the natural world, particularly birds. Sherrie’s reduction linocut Trunk Show is […]
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Linocut Printmaking Workshop
Sold Out! Thank you for your interest in our programs. We hope you can join us for programs this fall. Join us for a linocut workshop with Sherrie York, a celebrated printmaker and instructor, whose work explores the natural world, particularly birds. Sherrie’s reduction linocut Trunk Show is in Mass Audubon’s collection and currently exhibited in […]
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Coopering Demonstration with Master Cooper Ron Raiselis
Join Master Cooper Ron Raiselis for a look into the 1700s coopering trade and explore why these highly skilled craftspeople were essential to the commerce and survival of a colony. […]
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Women in the Civil War: A Conversation with Thavolia Glymph
https://youtu.be/PZ0JT6NXVYQ Join historian Thavolia Glymph in a discussion of her book, The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation, a comprehensive new history of women's roles […]
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The Living Memorial: Daniel Chester French’s Lincoln at 100 with Harold Holzer
https://youtu.be/whSfRUrfhQg Harold Holzer, leading historian of Abraham Lincoln and author of the award-winning Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French, explores the 50-year career of the great […]
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Monuments of Concord Walking Tour
This program is full. Please consider joining us for another program this fall. Join us for a guided walk of monuments in Concord’s town center. What do they commemorate? Who […]