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  • Concord Museum Contemporary Leaders Launch Event

    Tickets are now only available at the door.  See you tonight! We are excited to announce the launch of the Museum’s newest patron program for people under 55 with a passion for the Museum and an interest in shaping its future. Join us for an evening of camaraderie, drinks, and dancing to beckon in the […]

  • FULL! Women of Sleepy Hollow Walking Tour

    This walking tour is full.  Thank you for your interest in our programs. Please consider joining us for another walking tour this fall. Social justice advocate, Army nurse, celebrated author, radical abolitionist, and the first woman licensed to drive a car in America These are just some of the remarkable women buried in Concord’s Sleepy […]

  • Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread

    Our current special exhibition, Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread, highlights needlework produced by young women in New England and specifically the extraordinary collection of samplers at the Concord Museum. Featuring 30 samplers sewn in the early 1700s to mid-1800s, Interwoven explores how young women created records of their own lives and experiences, written in […]

  • Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread Opening Day

    On opening day, visit the Museum’s new special exhibition Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread, which highlights needlework produced by young women in New England, with a specific focus on the extraordinary collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century samplers at the Concord Museum.  These vibrant samplers offer a distinctive picture of how young women were […]

  • Curator Gallery Talk – Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread

    Concord Museum curators will give gallery talks in the new special exhibition Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread.  Hear stories of the lives and education of young women in eighteenth and nineteenth-century New England.   Free for Members 

  • Curator Gallery Talk – Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread

    Concord Museum curators will give gallery talks in the new special exhibition Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread.  Hear stories of the lives and education of young women in eighteenth and nineteenth-century New England.   Free for Members 

  • Henry David Thoreau: A Conversation with Lawrence Buell

    https://youtube.com/live/poS-IHi-F2A?feature=share Lawrence Buell, Harvard University Professor Emeritus of American Literature, joins us for a conversation on his new book Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently.  Professor Buell details the complexities and contradictions of Thoreau’s life and work, providing necessary context to understanding a key American writer.   Free Member | $10 Non-Member | Free Virtual

  • FULL! Indigenous Peoples’ Day Family Program with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers

    This program is full! Please consider joining us for another program this fall. Join us for a program and performance with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers, a group of musicians and artisans from the tribal communities of Mashpee on Cape Cod and Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard on Indigenous Peoples’ Day.  Participate in the performance […]

  • FULL! Basic Embroidery Workshop

    Thank you for your interest in our programs. Please consider joining us for another program this fall. This workshop is designed to be a fun and informative introduction to embroidery. Students visit the Museum’s new special exhibition Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread to see extraordinary examples of needlework in the Concord Museum’s collection, then […]

  • Postponed: An Evening with David Hackett Fischer

    Due to an unexpected health issue, this program will be postponed.  Thank you for joining us for another program this fall. Pulitzer Prize winning historian, David Hackett Fischer, joins us for an evening reflecting on his career, what he’s learned since his landmark text Paul Revere’s Ride, and the role of Concord and neighboring communities […]

  • Music & Folklore

    The Purse and the Person: A Century of Women’s Purses

    Concord Museum and Concord Conservatory of Music partner to present Music & Folklore, musical evocations of the tales and characters of oral folk traditions from around the globe. The ancient art form of storytelling is a common thread of all people, one which connects humanity, enchants us, and communicates knowledge, experience, and characters. This chamber […]

  • Emerson’s Circle Walking Tour

    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 Concord and […]