Events

Thank you for your interest in our programs. This program is full. Join the Concord Museum’s curator, David Wood, in a program in which participants will look behind the dial of clocks in the Museum’s collection for insights into the 17th century technology that underlies 18th century clock production in Concord. In the unique setting […]

https://youtube.com/live/TY3lrLkheFc?feature=share Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 – 2000, joins us for a reading and conversation on writing, teaching, and poetry’s place in the world.  It was said of Robert Pinsky in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, “No other living American poet—no other living American, probably—has done so much […]

This program is full.  Thank you for your interest in our programs, and please consider attending another program this summer. Unleash your inner artist in a watercolor paint night at the Museum! This special evening begins with a visit to the exhibition A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library, […]

This program is full. Please consider joining us for another program this summer! Celebrate Emerson’s birthday (May 25) and follow the footsteps of writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau! Enjoy the spring weather and learn about the friendship of two notable observers of nature from a museum interpreter. 1-mile walk, mostly flat terrain, […]

Thank you for your interest in our programs.  This forum is postponed.  We will announce the new date shortly. Writer, critic, and landscape historian Daegan Miller joins us with Guggenheim Fellow and environmental writer Sven Birkerts for a conversation on Daegan’s first book This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent and the literary […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uej4e3wX9_o Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward Larson joins us for a conversation on his new book American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795, in which he discusses how liberty and slavery were intertwined during the nation’s founding. Professor Larson examines the role of Black Americans during the Revolutionary War and […]

The Concord Museum Guild of Volunteers is thrilled to present the 34th Annual Garden Tour on June 2 and 3, 2023! This event features carefully selected private gardens throughout Concord.  Funds raised provide critical support to the Museum’s education initiatives. This year there are six unique gardens that reflect the individual interests and passions of […]

Tour the first burial ground in Concord dating to c. 1636 learning about past Concordians with a Museum educator.  Explore the classic iconography of New England headstones that feature winged skulls or “death’s head,” urns, willows, and others. About 1 1/2 miles on paved terrain. Rain or shine. Includes same-day admission to the Concord Museum. […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK03RwaxoTg The detailed records of bird sightings and phenological observations around Concord from the last 170 years—from Thoreau’s notes to today’s studies by scientists at Boston University—provide a key to studying how climate change is affecting bird migration. Boston University professor Richard Primack and Colby College visiting assistant professor Amanda Gallinat present their recent research […]