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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.

  • 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 Waldo Emerson, wrote the first draft of his most influential work, “Nature”, at this desk. “Nature” and his other works helped to create a uniquely […]

  • 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 and Abroad.  More than one million Black soldiers served in World War II in segregated units while waging a dual battle against inequality in the […]

  • 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 weather and learn about the friendship of two notable observers of nature from a museum interpreter. 1-mile walk, mostly flat terrain, unpaved and muddy trail, […]

  • 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 first and most expansive pioneer families. The Bloods explored and laid claim to the frontiers—geographic, political, intellectual, and spiritual—that would become the very core of […]

  • The 35th Annual Garden Tour – June 7 and June 8, 2024

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    The 35th Annual Garden Tour June 7 - 8 | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Tickets are now on sale! Use the below form to purchase your tickets.  Join us for a day of beauty, nature, and discovery as you visit private gardens throughout Concord. All proceeds support the Concord Museum’s vital education initiatives.  This year's […]

  • Butch Heroes: A Conversation with Ria Brodell

    This forum is postponed. Please keep an eye out for a new date. Ria Brodell is a non-binary trans artist, educator, and author with a current solo exhibition at the Fitchburg Art Museum. Ria joins us at the Museum for a conversation on their ongoing series entitled Butch Heroes. Through this revelatory project of historic […]

  • Antislavery Walking Tour

    NEW TIME! Beat the heat with our 8:00 am walking tour. Sign up fast; only a couple of spaces are remaining. Coinciding with the celebration of Juneteenth, join us for a walking tour introducing participants to the Concord women and men who played a crucial role in the abolitionist movement in the years leading up […]

  • FULL! Juneteenth Family Program

    This program is full. Please consider attending another program with us this summer! Join us for a celebratory Juneteenth performance with Benkadi Drum and Dance Company. With vivid costumes and uplifting energy, the multicultural company performs traditional West African rhythm and movements with singing, drumming, and dancing. Participate in the dancing and learn West African […]

  • Interpreting the Queer Past

    Presented by Concord Pride Join Dr. Matt Champagne for a discussion on queer history and how it is represented at historic sites.  The lives of famous people like Friedrich Wilhem von Steuben, James Buchanan, Ma Rainey band others provoke serious questions about how to appropriately discuss the queer past,   The intense bonds some historic figures […]

  • An Evening with Tiya Miles on Harriet Tubman

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRxvSmNSWWo National Book Award–winning author Tiya Miles, joins 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqueline Jones for a revelatory conversation on the myth and the truth behind Harriet Tubman, one of the most famous Americans ever born who few really understand. A figure more out of myth than history, Harriet Tubman becomes an even clearer and sharper […]

  • Full! A Walk in Thoreau’s Concord

    A Walk in Thoreau’s Concord This program is full. Please join us for another program this summer. When we think of Henry David Thoreau, we picture him during the two years he spent living at Walden Pond.  But did you know that he lived in other homes in Concord throughout his life?  Take a unique […]