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  • A Perpetual Invitation Gallery Tour with the Curators (11 a.m. and 2 p.m.)

    Curators from the Concord Museum and the Concord Free Public Library lead guided tours of the new special exhibition A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. No advanced registration necessary.  Free with Museum admission.  Members visit free.

  • Massachusetts Historical Society Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe4zyCADhsU In-person attendance for the ceremony is full.  Please register to watch the virtual livestream.  Thank you! Join us at the Concord Museum for the ceremony of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s 2022 Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize awarded to Robert A. Gross for his book The Transcendentalists and Their World, published in 2021 by […]

  • 43rd Annual Mary Lesneski Memorial Lecture: Global Objects: A Conversation with Edward S. Cooke, Jr. and Suzanne Blier

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jIqxq2_dH4 Edward S. Cooke, Jr., renowned art historian of Yale University, is joined by Harvard University art historian Suzanne Blier in a conversation on Ned’s newest book Global Objects: Towards a Connected Art History. The two renowned art historians will discuss objects that transcend geographic boundaries and challenge our ideas about what is and is […]

  • 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 is free on Patriots' Day thanks to the generosity of the Highland Street Foundation. Rain or shine!  Please note that roads into Concord center are […]

  • 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 of the Redcoats on April 19, 1775. Museum admission is free on Patriots' Day thanks to the generosity of the Highland Street Foundation. Please note […]

  • 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 is free on Patriots' Day thanks to the generosity of the Highland Street Foundation. Please note that roads into Concord center are closed from 8 […]

  • 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 muskets to prepare for battle, cooking over a firepit, and demonstrating colonial spinning and sewing. This program is free and open to the public thanks […]

  • 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 century art production. Using new quantitative evidence on five hundred thousand works of art, she examines the extent to which art historians have focused on […]

  • 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 […]

  • The Concordians Behind the Art Walking Tour

    Many of the works of art in the Concord Free Public Library’s collection and displayed at the Concord Museum were made by, of, and for Concordians. Join a Concord Museum Guide on a walking tour that delves into the lives of the artists and into subjects featured in the special exhibition A Perpetual Invitation: 150 […]