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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Women of Concord Walking Tour

    Walk through town and focus on the notable women who shaped Concord’s history.  The tour highlights famous historical figures as Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller, to those who are […]

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    Women of Concord Collection Spotlight

    Featuring intimate imagery from the Concord Museum’s collection, explore the lives and legacies of women who have shaped and continue to shape the American experience with Concord Museum curator David […]

  • SOLD OUT I Want to Go to Jail

    SOLD OUT - Thank you for your interest in our programs.  Please join us for other upcoming forums in September including The Scrapbooks of Helen Thoreau and The Cabinet Maker's […]

  • POSTPONED Monument Maker

    POSTPONED - Thank you for your interest in our programs! Monument Maker with Linda Sweeney and Shawn Fields has been rescheduled to Sunday, December 15 at 11:00 AM. Know what you love. […]

  • Celebrate the Apple: Family Open House

    Apples have been the center of the New England harvest since the British first brought seeds and cuttings across the Atlantic in the 17th century.  Now, New England’s apple orchards […]

  • The Scrapbooks of Helen Thoreau

    Middlebury College professor William Nash will discuss what can be learned about Helen Thoreau and Concord through the scrapbooks she kept chronicling events of the 1840's - two of which […]