Events
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Sold Out! Sleepy Hollow-een Tour
This program is full. We hope that you can join us for more programs this fall! Join us for this special Halloween event! Take a tour through historic Sleepy Hollow Cemetery with a Concord Museum guide. Learn about the lives and deaths of past Concordians through stories passed down through the generations. This is an […]
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JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century 1917-1956
To participate in the question and answer session and chat with other viewers, please visit the Museum’s YouTube page. https://youtu.be/3bwdd58buNY As part of the 2020 Concord Festival of Authors, the Concord Museum is pleased to present Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Fred Logevall, discussing his new biography, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 with […]
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Cummings Davis Society Event: Muskets of the American Revolution
Learn all about the muskets of the Concord Museum’s collection that were fired on the North Bridge on April 19, 1775 streamed from the Lisa H. Foote History Learning Center. Experts Joel Bohy, of Bruneau & Co., and the Concord Museum’s Curator, David Wood, explore the objects that played a part in the events of […]
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A Soldier’s Kit
https://youtu.be/JbYHQ0b4dao What did the Minutemen carry with them into battle in 1775? How do you change a flint and fire a musket? Muster with living Historian Nick Johnson in this virtual program to find out! Please note that this family program is virtual. Participants will be emailed a link to watch the program live on […]
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Concord: Laid in Stone
https://youtu.be/mTXAEo-0A28 Join us for a free virtual forum from the comfort of your home! Join Geologist and New England's foremost expert on stone walls, Robert Thorson, in a conversation on the fascinating history of Concord's signature, but often forgotten, landform - stone walls. Thorson uncovers why New England is uniquely situated to be the quintessential […]
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HOME: Paintings by Loring W. Coleman
In 2017, the Concord Museum was honored to receive an anonymous gift of 47 works of art by Loring Wilkins Coleman (1918-2015), a notable painter of New England landscapes. The exhibition celebrated the work of this accomplished artist who had a strong Concord connection and who explored a changing New England with a sense of […]
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The Art of Framing
Due to new restrictions around the Coronavirus pandemic, this program has been postponed to January 2021. Please keep an eye out for a new date and registration page. Thank you! Lawrence Powers has owned and operated Powers Gallery since 1982 after taking the business over from his father. Learn the ins and outs of fine […]
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Veterans Day
In honor of America's first veterans, the Concord Museum is offering a sneak peek and free admission with advance registration to active military and veterans and their families to the new April 19, 1775 Galleries on Wednesday, November 11, 2020. The three new permanent galleries contain the most comprehensive collection of artifacts involved on that […]
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Virtual Opening of April 19, 1775
https://youtu.be/x0k5GAr3ZNs Board of Governors, Trustees, the Lantern Society, and Museum Members are invited to celebrate the opening of the new April 19, 1775 galleries. The event will feature words from Ralph Earle, President of the Museum's Board of Governors and a sneak peek of the galleries before you visit them in-person. This event is open […]
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April 19, 1775 Galleries open today!
Today the Concord Museum will debut three new permanent galleries chronicling the events of April 19, 1775 and their revolutionary effect on American history! The oft-told story of the battle at Concord’s North Bridge comes to life in dramatic new and more inclusive ways to recount the fateful moment when the first shots were fired […]
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Film Screening: The Making of Joe Wheeler: A Concord Story
https://youtu.be/fana3gsCeFs Born on Thoreau Farm in 1926, Joe Wheeler went on to help farmers and others across the world. His idealism was forged in Concord during the Depression and World War II. Motivated to help build a war-free, prosperous world, he spent most of his life abroad assisting others through the U.S. Agency for International […]
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April 19, 1775 Curator Gallery Talk
https://youtu.be/ePlRaWcrq1c Join us for a virtual gallery talk from the comfort of your home! Curator David Wood and Peggy N. Gerry Curatorial Associate Erica Lome introduce visitors to the newly opened permanent galleries that unveil first-person narratives of the events of April 19, 1775 that started an 8-year war for independence. The objects in the […]