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  • 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 Museum galleries. Included with Museum admission.  Members visit free.

  • 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 life, campaign debates, the Civil War, and concludes with a stirring reading of the Gettysburg Address.  Ticket price includes Museum admission and activities after the […]

  • 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 Concord.   With Museum admission. Members visit free.

  • 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 […]

  • Canceled – Minute Men Encampment and Patriots’ Day Weekend Activities

    This event was canceled.  Please join us next year for our annual Patriots' Day and April Vacation Week programming. Make the Concord Museum part of your Patriots’ Day tradition! Join us for activities, art-making, Longfellow-inspired poetry writing, and living history demonstrations from Colonial Minute Men. Special activities ongoing in conjunction with the special exhibition Beyond […]

  • Canceled – Patriots’ Day at the Concord Museum

    This event was canceled.  Please join us next year for our annual Patriots' Day and April Vacation Week programming. After the Patriots’ Day parade, stop by the Museum to enjoy patriotic activities for families, art-making, Longfellow-inspired poetry writing, and explore the Museum’s outstanding collection of objects that were witness to the events of April 1775, […]

  • Canceled – School Vacation Week: Beyond Midnight

    This event was canceled.  Please join us next year for our annual Patriots' Day and April Vacation Week programming. The Regulars are coming! Get creative during vacation week with Revolutionary activities inspired by the Concord Museum’s special exhibit Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere available daily in the Concord Museum galleries. Included with Museum admission. Members visit […]