• Patriots’ Day Family Activities

    Celebrate the start of the American Revolution by exploring artifacts in the Museum and then visiting our drop-in activities to learn about life and craft in the colonies. Museum admission […]

  • An Enemy Among Us!

    When you are visiting the Museum on Patriots’ Day, beware of a Redcoat from the British Army roaming the galleries looking for Provincial rebels. Talk with him about the experiences […]

  • Made in Horn

    Visit a craftsperson inside the Museum demonstrating various objects that were made of horn during the colonial period, including powder horns and everyday items like cups and combs. Museum admission […]

  • Patriots’ Day Minuteman Encampment

    “I haven’t a man who is afraid to go!” Visit the brave Acton Minutemen company in an encampment outside the Concord Museum on Patriots’ Day and see them drilling with […]

  • Painting By Numbers

    https://youtube.com/live/qJUb2R7bUhU?feature=share Diana Greenwald, William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and author of Painting By Numbers, joins us for a conversation on 19th […]

  • Annual Earth Day Forum ~ Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabLWhx_DbQ Lauret Savoy, the David B. Truman Professor of Environmental Studies & Geology at Mount Holyoke College and a woman of African American, Euro-American, and Indigenous ancestry, joins us for a conversation on her award-winning book Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape. Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, Professor Savoy explores how America’s […]

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art Curator: A Female View of Historic American Furniture

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rwHTVkATjA Considerable attention has been paid to male furniture-makers and the glory of their work in museum collections like the Concord Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Women, too, served an important part in the furniture industry and the development of utilitarian and decorative forms. Join Alyce Perry Englund, Associate Curator of American Decorative […]