An extraordinary collection of 72 historic maps and an atlas of early America, culled from Colonial Williamsburg’s extensive collection were featured as a point of departure for understanding the history […]

Over 100 items with unexpected visual and verbal richness that literally ranged from A to Z were on view from the Museum's renowned collection. From simple objects to high-style knockouts, […]

The exhibition celebrated the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or, Life in the Woods, one of the seminal works that has shaped the American character. Artifacts and […]

Evocative photographic portraits of the homes of some of America’s most important literary figures and a selection of the writers’ original manuscript poems and letters, revealed the importance of place in […]

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 […]

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 author/artist’s work. More than just a field guide, The Sibley Guide to Birds has already proved to be one of the most influential natural history books […]

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 life of a quintessential New England town. This exhibition at the Concord Museum peeled back the streetscape's layers of history through contemporary views by nationally-renowned […]

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 the purses carried by our mothers and grandmothers. Developed from a private collection of nearly 2,000 handbags, each vignette in this exhibit combined purses with […]

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 much a part of New England history. The artistry and charm of the works themselves, the richness of the colors in the needlework, and the […]

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 up the galleries with a blue palette that was both hot and icy cool. This exhibition looked at objects from the Museum’s collection through a […]

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, Massachusetts to New Hampshire in 1839. It was this trip, in this boat, that resulted in Henry Thoreau’s first book, A Week on the Concord and […]

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 American domestic art and craft. His book on period rooms, compiled with the help of the first generation of American museum professionals to interpret American […]