Events
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Patriots’ Day at the Museum
Enjoy free admission to the Museum and visit the immersive April 19, 1775 gallery to see the “One if by land, two if by sea” lantern hung in the North Church to signal Paul Revere on his midnight ride. During your visit, participate in drop-in activities to learn about life and craft in the colonies. […]
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Object Spotlight Talk: Thoreau’s Desk
Object Spotlight Talk: Thoreau’s Desk This talk will take place at 11:00 am and 3:00 pm in in the Thoreau gallery. This simple green desk made in Concord accompanied Henry David Thoreau from the school room where he taught with his brother to Walden Pond, where he drafted some of his most influential works and journaled observations of […]
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Thoreau’s Pencil: Annual Earth Day Forum
https://youtube.com/live/SDq2sXpri9I?feature=share Join historian Augustine Sedgewick in conversation with Robert A. Gross, author of Transcendentalists and Their World, for a deep dive into the history of the Thoreau family’s pencil manufacturing business. A story of environmental history and material culture, Thoreau’s pencils bring us to Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida where enslaved people harvested red cedar and […]
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What Makes History Gallery Tour with the Curators
Curators from the Concord Museum lead a guided tour of the new special exhibition What Makes History. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free. Calling Card Case (detail), late 19th century, Possibly Europe. Concord Museum Collection, Bequest of Alice Stanwood Willoughby; Per775aaf.
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A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert D. Richardson III Annual Forum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlgIKlQh7BE More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire, and suffering. James […]
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Fan Making Workshop
Try your hand at fan making with an experienced teaching artist from the Umbrella Arts Center. Visit the special exhibition What Makes History to see an exquisite sample of the Concord Museum’s vast collection of fans from around the world. Then, learn common fan making techniques and create your own fan to take home. The […]
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Appraisal Day with Bonhams Skinner
Do you have a family heirloom passed down through generations? Maybe a great yard sale item or flea market find that might be a treasure? Would you like to know what it is worth? Bring your special items to Bonhams Skinner appraisers Vice President and Director of Historic Arms & Militaria Christopher Fox, Senior […]
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What Makes History Gallery Tour with the Curators
Curators from the Concord Museum lead a guided tour of the new special exhibition What Makes History. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free. Calling Card Case (detail), late 19th century, Possibly Europe. Concord Museum Collection, Bequest of Alice Stanwood Willoughby; Per775aaf.
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Object Spotlight Talk: Emerson’s Writing Desk
Object Spotlight Talk: Emerson’s Writing Desk This talk will take place at 11:00 am and 3:00 pm in the At the Center of the Revolution Gallery. Concord’s famous writer, philosopher, and lecturer, Ralph […]
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Half American: A Memorial Day Forum
https://youtube.com/live/_NJ8qXMdCTU?feature=share Join Dartmouth College Historian Matthew F. Delmont for a forum on his award-winning new book Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home […]
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Full! Emerson-Thoreau Amble Walking Tour
This program is full. Please consider joining us for another program! Celebrate Emerson’s birthday and follow the footsteps of writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau! Enjoy the spring […]
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American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty that Shaped a Nation
https://youtube.com/live/XhThp1SDWo8?feature=share Inspired by the discovery of a mysterious manuscript in an old farmhouse just north of Concord, historian John Kaag takes us on a multi-generational exploration of one of America’s […]