Events
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Patriots’ Day Weekend
Rendezvous for Revolution at the Concord Museum! Make the Concord Museum part of your Patriots’ Day tradition! Join us for a Minute Man encampment with Billerica Colonial Minute Men, gallery talks, collection spotlights, dances, music, activities, and art-making. The Rasmussen Education Center is open Saturday, April 13 through Monday, April 15 from 10:00 a.m. […]
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Patriots’ Day Weekend
Rendezvous for Revolution at the Concord Museum! Make the Concord Museum part of your Patriots’ Day tradition! Join us for a Minute Man encampment with Billerica Colonial Minute Men (Saturday, April 13), gallery talks, collection spotlights, dances, music, activities, and art-making. The Rasmussen Education Center is open Saturday, April 13 through Monday, April 15 […]
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The Revolution’s Odd Couple: Sam Adams and John Hancock
Join us the night of Patriots’ Day to hear from renowned storyteller and Northeastern University historian, Bill Fowler discuss two important figures who shaped the fabric of the American Revolution and the country that it formed. Dr. William Morgan Fowler, Jr. is a professor emeritus of history at Northeastern University, Boston and a prolific author. He served as Director of the Massachusetts Historical Society from […]
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Protecting Our Planet: Earth Day Forum
On the eve of Earth Day, Join Barbara Moran, WBUR’s Senior Producer for Environmental Reporting and Boston University Professor Richard Primack, author of Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes To Thoreau’s Woods in a conversation with museum director Tom Putnam on the environmental challenges facing our times. Members $5, Nonmembers $10. This program is supported in part […]
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Frederick Douglass in Concord
Join us for a conversation with prize-winning historian Robert A. Gross and Robbins House President Maria Madison as they discuss the historical context in which Frederick Douglass spoke in this historic town in 1841 and 1844. Learn about Douglass’ visits and the key figures who met with including the leaders of the Middlesex County Antislavery […]
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Film Screening: A Revolutionary Duo
Patriots’ Day might be ending, but the Revolution is just beginning! Join the Concord Museum to wrap up Patriots’ Day with a screening of A Revolutionary Duo - two short films investigating the war-time contributions of two New England residents during the Revolutionary War. Maureen Taylor, the Photo Detective and author of the Last Muster books, […]
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Film Screening: Exile and Community: The Life of Carola Domar
Carola Domar escaped Nazi Germany in her teens and came to the States, where she married and built a new life in Concord, finding true belonging within the unique neighborhood of Conantum. In this documentary film, she and her daughter tell the story of her persistent search for community. A high-spirited, resourceful person, Domar yearned […]
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Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
Wellesley Professor Kellie Carter Jackson, author of Force & Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence will discuss the tactical use of violence among antebellum black activists. Through tactical violence, argues Carter Jackson, black abolitionist leaders accomplished what white nonviolent abolitionists could not: creating the conditions that necessitated the Civil War. Force and Freedom takes […]
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Cummings Davis Society: Play | Ride | Drive
Explore a more "dressed down" part of the Museum's fashion and textile collection with Curator David Wood. You'll have the opportunity to closely examine carefully selected pieces that demonstrate the rise of sporting and leisure wear, such as bicycling outfits and gym uniforms. This program is an event of the Cummings Davis Society, which provides […]
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SOLD OUT – Early Bird Walking Tour with Gary Clayton and Jeff Collins
SOLD OUT - Thank you for your interest in our programs. Please consider signing up for these other upcoming walking tours including Emerson-Thoreau Amble on May 25 and Antislavery on June 15. Walk with the warblers as they migrate through Concord. Led by Gary Clayton, president of Mass Audubon and Jeff Collins, Director of Conservation […]
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An Evening with David Blight
Join the Concord Museum in welcoming renowned historians David Blight and John Stauffer as they discuss one of the most important people of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped enslaved man who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. 2019 PULITZER PRIZE […]
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Antislavery Agents of Change: Concord Bike Fest Guided Tour
Experience the history of Concord while you cruise your way through town on a guided tour of Concord’s African American and Antislavery history. Meet the free and enslaved people who called Concord their home. Traverse spots along the Underground Railroad, and learn about flashpoints in Concord’s history that played a crucial role in the abolitionist […]