Celebrate the Museum’s special exhibition, Revolutionary Legacies, with a special guided tour following a festive happy hour of wine, beer, and light refreshments in the Museum’s courtyard. Reflect on the nation’s founding principles, their continuous reinterpretation over the past 250 years, and consider what they mean today through textiles, ceramics, and relics from the 19th century. Oysters and shrimp cocktail are sponsored by Janine Olson, Merrill a Bank of […]

As the country celebrates its 250th Anniversary, enjoy a staged reading and discussion of the new play Walt Whitman’s American Dream by Sarah Vander Schaaff, directed by Brendon Fox, Artistic Director of the renowned Peterborough Players. A juicy biopic, the play stirs the bigger questions still at the heart of our experience; the ensemble of characters includes Concord’s own, Ralph Waldo […]

Join us for an evening of society to celebrate the illustrious literary and transcendentalist history of Concord with wine, beer, and other beverages in the courtyard, followed by a tour of our singular Thoreau and Emerson collections.  Your ticket includes drinks outside in the courtyard before the tour, which begins at 7:15 pm.  Co-sponsored by […]

Award-winning Firelight Theatre Workshop presents We Were Friends: To Bed/Eggs, an episodic project of Firelight’s playful reimagining of Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s profound friendship set in today’s world. A late-night phone conversation between Ralph and Margaret takes the form of a radio play in which music, voice, and the hypnotic hum of a sleep apnea […]

Beat the heat with wine, ice-cold beer, and other beverages — plus a raw bar from Svenfish — in our courtyard, followed by a specially curated tour of staff favorites from the Concord Museum's collection. From beloved hidden gems to iconic highlights, discover what makes these pieces stand out through the eyes of those who […]