Events
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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Behind the Dial: The Anatomy of a Clock
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 […]
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An Evening with Robert Pinsky
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 […]
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2023 Concord Museum Annual Gala
Saturday, May 13, 2023 6:30 - 10:00 p.m. American Heritage Museum 568 Main St Hudson MA 01749 The Concord Museum is delighted to invite friends and supporters to our Annual Gala, which will take place at the new American Heritage Museum in Hudson MA. Enjoy food, drink and entertainment alongside fellow Museum supporters and friends […]
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Watercolor Landscape Workshop
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, […]
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Emerson-Thoreau Amble Walking Tour
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, […]