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  • The 35th Annual Garden Tour – June 7 and June 8, 2024

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    The 35th Annual Garden Tour June 7 - 8 | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Tickets are now on sale! Use the below form to purchase your tickets.  Join us for a day of beauty, nature, and discovery as you visit private gardens throughout Concord. All proceeds support the Concord Museum’s vital education initiatives.  This year's […]

  • Butch Heroes: A Conversation with Ria Brodell

    This forum is postponed. Please keep an eye out for a new date. Ria Brodell is a non-binary trans artist, educator, and author with a current solo exhibition at the Fitchburg Art Museum. Ria joins us at the Museum for a conversation on their ongoing series entitled Butch Heroes. Through this revelatory project of historic […]

  • Antislavery Walking Tour

    NEW TIME! Beat the heat with our 8:00 am walking tour. Sign up fast; only a couple of spaces are remaining. Coinciding with the celebration of Juneteenth, join us for a walking tour introducing participants to the Concord women and men who played a crucial role in the abolitionist movement in the years leading up […]

  • FULL! Juneteenth Family Program

    This program is full. Please consider attending another program with us this summer! Join us for a celebratory Juneteenth performance with Benkadi Drum and Dance Company. With vivid costumes and uplifting energy, the multicultural company performs traditional West African rhythm and movements with singing, drumming, and dancing. Participate in the dancing and learn West African […]

  • Interpreting the Queer Past

    Presented by Concord Pride Join Dr. Matt Champagne for a discussion on queer history and how it is represented at historic sites.  The lives of famous people like Friedrich Wilhem von Steuben, James Buchanan, Ma Rainey band others provoke serious questions about how to appropriately discuss the queer past,   The intense bonds some historic figures […]

  • An Evening with Tiya Miles on Harriet Tubman

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRxvSmNSWWo National Book Award–winning author Tiya Miles, joins 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqueline Jones for a revelatory conversation on the myth and the truth behind Harriet Tubman, one of the most famous Americans ever born who few really understand. A figure more out of myth than history, Harriet Tubman becomes an even clearer and sharper […]

  • Full! A Walk in Thoreau’s Concord

    A Walk in Thoreau’s Concord This program is full. Please join us for another program this summer. When we think of Henry David Thoreau, we picture him during the two […]

  • Object Spotlight Talk: Vedic Texts

    This talk will take place at 2:30pm in the Thoreau Gallery. An English traveler and writer, Thomas Cholmondeley (pronounced “chumly”), gifted Henry David Thoreau 44 volumes of sacred texts of India’s Vedic […]

  • We Were Friends

    Episode One: Two Years In: Birthdays Advanced ticket sales are now closed. Please purchase tickets at the door. Award-winning Firelight Theatre Workshop presents We Were Friends, a playful reimagining of Margaret […]

  • Curator Spotlight Talk: What Makes History?

    Take a deep dive into highlights from the special exhibition What Makes History? New Stories from the Collection with Concord Museum curator, David Wood.  Rather than an extensive tour of […]

  • History Learning Cart

      Stationed in the April 19, 1775 gallery, the History Learning Cart encourages visitors of all ages to explore touchable objects and expand on the topics presented in the galleries. […]