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  • WAITLIST A Tribute to Jenny Phillips

    Jenny Phillips, a longtime resident of Concord, was an award-winning filmmaker who produced several documentaries focused on prisons and criminal justice reform.  This forum will include clips from Jenny’s films and a conversation with those who knew her and the genesis of her work including her husband, Frank Phillips; her filmmaking partner, Bestor Cram; Di Clymer, […]

  • Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home

    “BOY LOST,” read the advertisement placed in a newspaper by the father of one of the five free boys kidnapped in Philadelphia in 1825.  Join us for a forum about the gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt […]

  • Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere and His Ride

      Drawing on the American Antiquarian Society’s unparalleled collection, as well as loans from other collections, Beyond Midnight revealed the man behind the legend, bringing to life Revere’s creative spirit, tremendous capacity to adapt to changing times, and his lasting impact on the social, economic, and political life in America. Organized by the American Antiquarian […]

  • School Vacation Week: Beyond Midnight

    The Regulars are Coming! Get creative during vacation week with Revolutionary activities inspired by the Concord Museum’s special exhibit Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere and His Ride available daily in the Concord […]

  • Steve Wood, of Claremont, New Hampshire

    A Visit with President Lincoln

    The Museum is pleased to again host Steve Wood and his amazing performance as Abraham Lincoln. Wood's first-person historical interpretation, "A Visit with Abraham Lincoln," includes stories of Lincoln's early […]

  • Sweet History: Colonial Chocolate

    Grind cocoa beans, add spices and concoct delicious treats by the roaring winter hearth.  Read a colonial recipe or “receipt” and decipher the steps to cooking rare delicacies in colonial […]

  • Gallery Talk: 250th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre

    Concord Museum Edward W. Kane Executive Director, Tom Putnam, discusses the Boston Massacre and its legacy in this special gallery talk in Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere and His Ride.  Using multiple editions and interpretations of Paul Revere’s print of the events on the Boston Common, Putnam unveils how a skirmish between neighbors sparked a city’s […]

  • Postponed -Listening for Thoreau’s Flute

    This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time, when it is confirmed. Join us for a conversation with Middlebury College professor emeritus John Elder as he investigates the history and form of Thoreau’s box flute, which now resides in the Concord Museum’s collection.  Thoreau inherited the flute […]

  • Postponed – Paul Revere: Man and Myth

    This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time when it is confirmed. Paul Revere and his midnight ride—immortalized as the harbinger of the dramatic escalation of the American colonial rebellion against the British Empire—has been celebrated in tales and songs throughout the centuries. But what really happened […]

  • Postponed – Cummings Davis Society Event: Muskets of the American Revolution

    This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time when it is confirmed. Learn all about the muskets of the Concord Museum’s collection that were fired on the Old North Bridge on April 19, 1775, in the History Learning Center.  Experts Joel Bohy, of Skinner Auctioneers, and the […]

  • Postponed – Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter

    This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time when it is confirmed. Dr. 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 […]

  • Postponed – Boston Massacre: A Family History

    This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time when it is confirmed. 250 years ago this March, British soldiers shot into a crowd and killed five civilians outside Boston’s Old State House on a blustery night in 1770. In her new book on the Boston Massacre, Serena […]