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  • Patriots’ Day 2017

    Make the Concord Museum—a gateway to Concord's history—part of your family’s 2017 Patriots’ Day tradition as we commemorate “the shot heard ‘round the world” with activities for visitors of all […]

  • Walden: Four Views – Abelardo Morell

    On the occasion of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, Abelardo Morell, guided and inspired by Thoreau’s journals and his seminal work Walden, created panoramic photographic works that suggest […]

  • Garden Tour

    Garden Tour 2017

    Celebrating 28 Years of a New England Tradition The famed Concord spokesman for individualism and self-reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson, once wrote: “When I go into a good garden, I think, […]

  • Golf Course

    Golf Tournament 2017

    Now entering its 22nd year, this premier tournament provides critical support for the Museum’s educational initiatives. The Museum’s educational programs teach children about the ideas of freedom, self-government and individualism […]

  • BE THOREAU: Neighbor

    Join us for a community forum addressing how the past can inform present social challenges and political conflict with representatives from the Concord Museum, the Emerson House, The Old Manse, Robbins House, and Orchard House. This event will take place at Wright Tavern in Concord Center.

    Free

  • BE THOREAU: Reader

    Family Train Trip to Fitchburg Join the Concord Free Public Library, Fitchburg Public Library, Massachusetts Center for the Book, and the Concord Museum for a trip to Fitchburg inspired by D.B. Johnson’s book Henry Hikes to Fitchburg! Families are invited to take a special literary train ride to Fitchburg. Free.; reservations required. Snacks provided. Reservations […]

  • This Ever New Self: Thoreau and His Journal

    The bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth culminated with the opening of the most comprehensive exhibition ever created about one of the world’s most original writers and thinkers. This Ever New Self: Thoreau and His Journal brought together remarkable holdings from the world’s two most significant Thoreau collections: journals, manuscripts, letters, books, and field notes […]

  • Be Thoreau.

    Throughout 2017, Concord is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of writer and thinker Henry Thoreau (1817-1862). The Concord Museum, along with program partners, has developed a year-long initiative, “Be Thoreau,” which encourages us to explore the writer’s work from a historical and contemporary perspective.

  • BE THOREAU: Thinker

    A Visit from Henry David Thoreau

    Encounter Henry David Thoreau on the eve of the Civil War. After a dramatic monologue, “Thoreau” will answer questions from the audience, followed by Professor Kevin Radaker responding to questions as himself.

  • BE THOREAU: Worker

    Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul

    From award-winning filmmaker Huey comes a portrait of Henry David Thoreau and how his work has impacted generations of thinkers, activists, and environmentalists. Join producer, director, and editor Huey for a post-screening discussion of Thoreau as “worker.”

  • BE THOREAU This Ever New Self Symposium

    Presenting a day-long symposium at the Fenn School in Concord, bringing together eight scholars to discuss what they discovered in Thoreau’s Journal, and what Thoreau’s writings mean for us today.

    Free

  • Sleepy Hollow-een Tour

    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.