The Concord Museum celebrated the 375th anniversary of the founding of the town of Concord with a special exhibition, "into your hands…" featuring objects that have been passed down in Concord’s families […]

Rarely exhibited, the quilts on view in this special exhibition ranged from doll size to full size, and included bold geometrics, traditional patchwork, signature quilts and crazy quilts, most dating […]

When Duty Whispers: Concord and the Civil War featured objects from the Concord Museum collection—some never before exhibited—including uniforms, accoutrements, arms, swords, flags, broadsides, portraits, correspondence and newspapers. The exhibition also […]

In the fall of 2011, the Concord Museum marked the 125th anniversary of the establishment of the Concord Antiquarian Society in 1886. Pulitzer-prize winning author, historian, and Concord resident Doris Kearns […]

This innovative exhibition explored treasures from the Massachusetts Historical Society from a variety of perspectives—as items associated with important historical figures or events; as objects of beauty; as exceptional survivals […]

Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage charted a new direction for one of America’s best-known living photographers. Unlike her staged and carefully lit portraits made on assignment for magazines and advertising clients, the photographs […]

In Concord, farmers, educators, planners, environmental activists, food distributors, health professionals, parents, and policymakers engage in community-wide discussions about building local food connections. The town’s agrarian heritage and historic farmland […]

Early Spring explored three centuries of careful observation of seasonal natural phenomena in Concord, a pool of data on the relationship between climate and biology that is essentially without parallel in […]

The Best Workman in the Shop explored William Munroe’s (1778 – 1861) life and career through the objects he made – including some of the most beautiful clocks crafted in Massachusetts, […]

Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) is best known for his monuments of two icons of American history: the Minute Man in Concord, MA (1871-75) and the seated figure of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial […]

The Shot Heard Round the World: April 19, 1775 followed an hour-by-hour account of the actions of British Regulars and Patriots on April 19th, 1775, presenting a chronological and geographical timeline […]

Behind Closed Doors: Asleep in New England uncovered the complex role sleep has played in everyday life throughout American history, drawing upon the expertise of Consulting Curators Jane and Richard Nylander […]