Events
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Concord Museum’s 25th Annual Golf Tournament
Each year the Concord Museum holds a premier golf tournament, organized by the Museum’s Guild of Volunteers, to support the Museum’s education initiatives. The Museum’s educational programs teach children about the ideas of freedom, self-government and individualism and help to bring our nation’s history alive. The Concord Museum's 25th Annual Golf Tournament will be held […]
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Crusading Daughters of Boston and Concord
To participate in the question and answer session and chat with other viewers, please visit the Museum’s YouTube page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13tGjO8uPL4 Join us for a free virtual forum from the comfort of your home! Join two distinguished scholars of the nineteenth century, Helen Deese and Sandra Petrulionis, as they discuss activist reformers of the Transcendentalist […]
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Laura Walls on the Women of the Thoreau Family
Thank you for watching our forum! To participate in the question and answer session and chat with other viewers, please visit the Museum’s YouTube page. https://youtu.be/g30cm5BSEuI As we mark the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, historian Laura Dassow Walls will discuss Henry David Thoreau’s mother, sisters, and aunts based on her book, […]
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Nicholas Basbanes on Longfellow
To participate in the question and answer session and chat with other viewers, please visit the Museum’s YouTube page. https://youtu.be/hlh6-D54C5c Nicholas Basbanes will discuss his new biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Cross of Snow, which the Wall Street Journal describes as a “superbly sympathetic” volume of “19th century America’s most popular and approachable poet.” An […]
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Billerica Colonial Minute Man Encampment
This Labor Day, join us on the Museum's front lawn for a Minute Man encampment with the Billerica Colonial Minute Men where you will see authentic living history demonstrations of musket ball casting, open fire cooking, candle making, leather tanning, musket firing and more! The health and safety of our staff and visitors is our […]
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Community Day
Free admission on Labor Day is generously supported by the Highland Street Foundation. Please note: tickets are required for admission. Please reserve your timed ticket on our website.
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Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
To participate in the question and answer session and chat with other viewers, please visit the Museum’s YouTube page. https://youtu.be/1VZ8yKTorn4 Kerri Greenidge, Director of American Studies at Tufts University, reestablishes William Monroe Trotter’s essential place in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes. For more than thirty years, the Harvard-educated Trotter edited and published the […]
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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Harold Holzer, and Ted Widmer on Abraham Lincoln
https://youtu.be/SiHIKMymcSw Historians Doris Kearns Goodwin, Harold Holzer, and Ted Widmer discuss the life and times of Abraham Lincoln prompted by Ted Widmer’s new book Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington which evokes the train journey from Springfield to Washington as Lincoln prepared to become the nation’s 16th president. In a review […]
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Center of Revolution Walking Tour
Designed for small groups, families, learning and homeschool pods! Starting today through November, the Concord Museum is offering our popular Revolutionary Walking Tour to small groups this fall! Take a short walk from the center of town to the Old North Bridge. Learn about the dramatic events leading up to April 19, 1775 and what […]
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Memory Lands
Due to the high winds and power outages in the area, the forum has been rescheduled for Thursday, October 8 at 7:00 p.m. Thank you for your understanding, and we hope you can join us tonight! To participate in the question and answer session and chat with other viewers, please visit the Museum’s YouTube page. […]
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Free Community Day
Free admission is generously supported by Middlesex Savings Bank. Visit the People of Musketaquid gallery and learn about Concord’s rich Native history. Tickets are required for admission on a first come, first served basis. Please reserve your timed tickets on our website.
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Family Performance with Larry Spotted Crow Mann
https://youtu.be/ZyqRULXziE4 The Drum, which is the Heartbeat of Mother Earth holds a special place for Larry Spotted Crow Mann. Join us in the outdoor courtyard of the Rasmussen Education Center for a singing and Hand Drum performance from the award-winning performer, educator, and poet Larry Spotted Crow Mann. Mann is a citizen of the Nipmuc […]