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  • Costume Character Day

    Come by the Concord Museum to meet your favorite storybook characters Elephant and Piggie come to life! Make crafts and hear stories during your visit to Family Trees. Free with Museum Admission | Members visit free

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    Holiday Members’ Evening

    Celebrate the winter season with an evening of viewing Family Trees and enjoying festive libations and treats.  Enjoy discounted holiday shopping in the Museum’s Shop.  This special event is open to members of the Concord Museum. For members of the Concord Museum.

  • Spotlight Talk: Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread

    Take a deep dive into highlights from the special exhibition Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread with Concord Museum curator, David Wood.  Not an extensive tour of the exhibition, this spotlight talk will delve into the design and structure of selected items to see what they reveal about the schools where they were made and […]

  • A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ow0uuCVv10 New York Times bestselling author and award-winning historian Katherine Howe joins us to discuss her new novel A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself.  Set in Boston during the Golden Age of Piracy, A True Account takes us on one young woman’s adventure as one of the most terrifying […]

  • Object Spotlight Talk: Lock and Key from Concord Jail

    Learn about the story behind the Lock and Key from the Concord jail where Henry David Thoreau spent a night in protest of a government that supported the evil of slavery. Thoreau’s night in jail resulted in him writing one of his most widely read and influential essays, “Civil Disobedience,” highlighting this non-violent protest. This […]

  • MLK Day of Service

    "Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve." - Martin Luther King, Jr. Join us on Martin Luther King Jr. Day for a morning of service hosted by the Concord Museum Contemporary Leaders. In collaboration with Open Table, we'll be assembling and decorating food pantry bags to support our local community.  After you register, stay […]

  • Beyond the Exhibition: A Close Look at Needlework

    A Lisa H. Foote History Learning Center Program Visit the special exhibition Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread with the Museum’s curator to learn about the Museum’s exemplary collection of needlework samplers.  As part of the program, participants will have the opportunity to view samplers not included in the exhibition and look closely at the […]

  • Object Spotlight Talk: Silk Shoe in the April 19th gallery

    Learn how a fancy silk and wool shoe connects to the important role women played in boycotting goods from England during the American Revolution. In the 18th century, American milliners often imported fancy English shoes for sale to their customers, but unpopular tax laws from the British government led colonists to protest by refusing to purchase items imported […]

  • An Evening with Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard University President Emerita

    https://youtube.com/live/jRaZSeFPcsI?feature=share Drew Gilpin Faust, President Emerita of Harvard University, joins us for a special evening reflecting on her instant New York Times bestselling memoir, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury.  Professor Faust reflects on the formative experiences of her youth during the turbulence of the 1950s and 60s – including her time as a student […]

  • Object Spotlight Talk: Louisa May Alcott’s Tea Kettle

    Learn about the story behind the tea kettle that Louisa May Alcott used while serving as a nurse for the Union Army in Washington, D.C. during the Civil War. Alcott is most famous as the author of Little Women, but years prior she wrote “Hospital Sketches,” based on her now-lost letters home which she reported were […]

  • Object Spotlight Talk: Jack Garrison’s Walking Stick

    Jack Garrison lived as a free man in Concord during the first half of the 19th century. He’d been enslaved in New Jersey until he fled to Massachusetts in 1810. In Concord, he began working as a laborer for hire and married Susan Robbins Middleton, an ardent civil rights activist. Together they raised a family […]