https://youtube.com/live/qJUb2R7bUhU?feature=share Diana Greenwald, William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and author of Painting By Numbers, joins us for a conversation on 19th century art production. Using new quantitative evidence on five hundred thousand works of art, she examines the extent to which art historians have focused on […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabLWhx_DbQ Lauret Savoy, the David B. Truman Professor of Environmental Studies & Geology at Mount Holyoke College and a woman of African American, Euro-American, and Indigenous ancestry, joins us for a conversation on her award-winning book Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape. Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, Professor Savoy explores how America’s […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rwHTVkATjA Considerable attention has been paid to male furniture-makers and the glory of their work in museum collections like the Concord Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Women, too, served an important part in the furniture industry and the development of utilitarian and decorative forms. Join Alyce Perry Englund, Associate Curator of American Decorative […]

Many of the works of art in the Concord Free Public Library’s collection and displayed at the Concord Museum were made by, of, and for Concordians. Join a Concord Museum Guide on a walking tour that delves into the lives of the artists and into subjects featured in the special exhibition A Perpetual Invitation: 150 […]

Thank you for your interest in our programs. This program is full. Join the Concord Museum’s curator, David Wood, in a program in which participants will look behind the dial of clocks in the Museum’s collection for insights into the 17th century technology that underlies 18th century clock production in Concord. In the unique setting […]

https://youtube.com/live/TY3lrLkheFc?feature=share Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 – 2000, joins us for a reading and conversation on writing, teaching, and poetry’s place in the world.  It was said of Robert Pinsky in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, “No other living American poet—no other living American, probably—has done so much […]

This program is full.  Thank you for your interest in our programs, and please consider attending another program this summer. Unleash your inner artist in a watercolor paint night at the Museum! This special evening begins with a visit to the exhibition A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library, […]

This program is full. Please consider joining us for another program this summer! Celebrate Emerson’s birthday (May 25) and follow the footsteps of writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau! Enjoy the spring weather and learn about the friendship of two notable observers of nature from a museum interpreter. 1-mile walk, mostly flat terrain, […]

Thank you for your interest in our programs.  This forum is postponed.  We will announce the new date shortly. Writer, critic, and landscape historian Daegan Miller joins us with Guggenheim Fellow and environmental writer Sven Birkerts for a conversation on Daegan’s first book This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent and the literary […]