Events
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What Makes History? New Stories from the Collection
What Makes History? New Stories from the Collection The things we keep matter for the stories we tell. What objects do we choose to preserve, and who is able to […]
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Nummeehquantamūmun
Nummeehquantamūmun nia holley, Nipmuc, is reintroducing corn in the Museum’s interior courtyard as a process to reawaken the mortar and return corn to this place. This mortar is one of […]
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FULL! Grave Detectives Walking Tour
This program is full. Please join us for another program this summer! Tour the first burial ground in Concord dating to c. 1636 learning about past Concordians with a Museum […]
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250 Days to the 250th Community Day
Enjoy free admission and family activities as we begin the countdown to the 250th anniversary of April 19, 1775. While you are at the Museum, see the lantern that was […]
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We Were Friends Play
Episode: And Then: Late Night This program is full. At-the-door registration is closed, and there will be no tickets for sale at the door. Because of inclement weather, this program […]
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Conservation in Action: Historic Clothing Collection
Drop in to the Lisa H. Foote History Learning Center during your visit to the Concord Museum to see conservators conducting a detailed survey of the Museum’s historic clothing collection. […]
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Object Spotlight Talk: Sewing Table
This talk will take place at 2:30pm in the To Set This World Right Gallery. This sewing table was likely used by Cynthia, Helen, and Sophia Thoreau in their home when making […]
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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 […]
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Portrait Mode
Featured"A new show at the Concord Museum takes portraiture to unexpected places." — The Boston Globe Portrait Mode Portrait Mode offers an intimate look at over 40 historical portraits from the […]
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1774 and All That
Featured1774 and All That: Reflections on a Long Year of Revolution One of the most acclaimed and original colonial historians of our time, Mary Beth Norton, shares her landmark text […]
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How to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein
FeaturedHow to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein What makes someone who becomes famous, famous? Harvard law professor, public intellectual, and bestselling author Cass Sunstein offers clear and surprising answers in […]
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Making the Presidency
FeaturedJohn Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic Renowned presidential historian and Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon, Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky, joins us […]