Events
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Object Spotlight Talk: Sewing Table
This talk will take place at 2:30pm in the To Set This World Right Gallery. This sewing table was likely used by Cynthia, Helen, and Sophia Thoreau in their home when making […]
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Object Spotlight Talk: Vedic Texts
This talk will take place at 2:30pm in the Thoreau Gallery. An English traveler and writer, Thomas Cholmondeley (pronounced “chumly”), gifted Henry David Thoreau 44 volumes of sacred texts of India’s Vedic […]
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Portrait Mode
Featured"A new show at the Concord Museum takes portraiture to unexpected places." — The Boston Globe Portrait Mode Portrait Mode offers an intimate look at over 40 historical portraits from the […]
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1774 and All That
Featured1774 and All That: Reflections on a Long Year of Revolution One of the most acclaimed and original colonial historians of our time, Mary Beth Norton, shares her landmark text […]
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How to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein
FeaturedHow to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein What makes someone who becomes famous, famous? Harvard law professor, public intellectual, and bestselling author Cass Sunstein offers clear and surprising answers in […]
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Making the Presidency
FeaturedJohn Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic Renowned presidential historian and Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon, Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky, joins us […]
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FULL! Nummeehquantamūmun: Artist Talk
FeaturedThis program is full. Please join us for another program this fall! Join artist nia holley, Nipmuc, for a talk about her installation that reintroduced corn in the Museum's courtyard. […]
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The Artists and the Orchard
FeaturedJoin us for an evening exploring the beauty and wisdom of apple trees through words and images with artists Ellen Harasimowicz and Linda Hoffman. Linda Hoffman will share from her […]
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FULL! Indigenous Peoples’ Day Family Program with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancer
FeaturedThis program is full. The Concord Museum is open on Indigenous Peoples' Day. Please enjoy a visit to our galleries including the exhibit The People of Musketaquid! Join us for […]
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A House Restored: A Conversation on Saving a New England Colonial
Featured12th Annual Sally Lanagan Forum Architectural Conservator and author, Lee McColgan, joins us for a conversation on his journey saving the ramshackle Loring House in Pembroke, Massachusetts, built in 1702, […]
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FULL! Sleepy Hollow-een Tour
Featured Sleepy Hollow-een TourThis tour is full. Please join us for another program this fall. Join us for this special Halloween event! Take a tour through historic Sleepy Hollow Cemetery with a Concord […]
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A Dialogue with The Veda: Hindu Scripture and the Transcendentalists
FeaturedWhen we think of the connections between the Transcendentalists and Eastern culture, we often think about Henry David Thoreau’s seminal essay Civil Disobedience and its influence on leaders of non-violent […]