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    SOLD OUT Antislavery Walking Tour

    SOLD OUT – Thank you for your interest in our programs.  Please consider signing up for these other upcoming walking tours including Emerson’s Circle on Saturday, July 27 and Women of […]

  • SOLD OUT – Father’s Day Beer Talk and Tasting

    SOLD OUT - Thank you for your interest in our programs.  Please consider joining us for Summer Night at Wright Tavern on Thursday, July 11. Celebrate a very special Father’s […]

  • Your Everyday Companion: Journal-Making for Families

    Bring your family to learn about the man who inspired the diligent documentation of the greater Walden Woods ecosystem.  Create your own hand-made journal, just as Henry David Thoreau made […]

  • Film Screening: Surveyor of the Soul

    Thoreau wrote that he “was born in the nick of time” in Concord, Massachusetts and went on to famously write about building a cabin and living at Walden Pond.  This […]

  • SOLD OUT Emerson’s Circle Walking Tour

    SOLD OUT In the 1800s, Concord was the center for American authors and thinkers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Louisa May Alcott. They gathered together with other Concordians to discuss issues of the day such as slavery, war, the natural world, and many other topics. Led by a Museum educator, explore 1800s […]

  • An Evening with Robert Richardson

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDFPhFZBjwA&feature=youtu.be Join renowned scholar Robert Richardson as he shares recent reflections on Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism with responses from Bay Emerson Bancroft, Robert Gross, and Megan Marshall. Robert Richardson was born in Milwaukee, spent his early years in Medford and Concord, attended and graduated from Harvard, and then pursued a career of teaching and writing. […]

  • Free Fun Friday

    Thanks to the generosity of the Highland Street Foundation, the Concord Museum is open FREE all day from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Experience Concord's history through object-based and hands-on activities.  All activities are on a first come, first served basis and will run rain or shine. Inside the Anna and Neil Rasmussen Education Center […]

  • RESCHEDULED TO NOV. 7: Why They Marched

    Why They Marched: A Conversation with Susan Ware: RESCHEDULED TO NOVEMBER 7, 2019 For far too long, the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the tale of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born. Join us for a conversation with Susan Ware, as she uncovers a […]

  • Art and Action for Suffrage: Women’s Suffrage Turns 100 Family Program

    Explore the activism and debate around women’s suffrage in Concord.  Using primary materials from the Concord Museum Collection, participants will examine the variety of printed materials from both sides of the debate. Through close-looking and thinking routines, participants will determine what makes effective and convincing propaganda. 100 years after women gained the right to vote, what […]