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  • Holiday Members’ Night

    Celebrate the winter season with an evening of viewing Family Trees and enjoying festive libations and treats.  Enjoy discounted holiday shopping in the Museum’s Shop. This free special event is open to members of the Concord Museum.    

  • Memory Jars Drop-In Family Program

    Read the book Memory Jars, explore its Family Tree, and add to the Concord Museum’s memory jar. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free.

  • Costume Character Day

    Come by the Concord Museum to meet the Grinch! Your heart will grow three sizes when you meet Dr. Seuss’s famous holiday character! Visitors can meet the Grinch and hear the story How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Free with Museum admission. Members visit free.

  • Liberty and Loyalty: Embroidered Coats of Arms in an Age of Revolution

    In 1775, Mary Jones of Weston Massachusetts watched her life collapse around her as her family, all supporters of the British Crown, fled their homes and had their immense fortune confiscated during the Revolution. Among what she had left to remember them was a mostly finished needlework sampler displaying the Jones family coat of arms. […]

  • Reckoning with Monuments in the North: A Conversation with W. Ralph Eubanks

    https://youtu.be/X54QGE1HQ-s Though there are no statues honoring the Confederacy to be found in Boston and Cambridge, award-winning author W. Ralph Eubanks discusses the historic memorials that obscure the achievements of Black Americans.  Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with the Mississippi native on his experience spending a year surrounded by the monuments of the American […]

  • Saving Yellowstone: A Conversation with Megan Kate Nelson

    https://youtu.be/iKZ5kONqrY0 Pulitzer Prize finalist and Civil War historian Megan Kate Nelson tells the vivid story of how, 150 years ago, Yellowstone became the world’s first national park amid the nationwide turmoil and racial violence of the Reconstruction era.  A narrative of adventure and exploration, the creation of Yellowstone is also a story of Indigenous resistance […]

  • Revolution in Women’s Athletics

    At the Concord Museum, history is both preserved through its extensive collection and “made new” through its engaging, interactive exhibitions and extensive public programming.  We are proud to introduce the Rebels and Revolutionaries speaker series, which seeks to emphasize the Museum’s dedication to the spirit of revolution through individuals making history in the present, in […]

  • February School Vacation Week Family Activities

    Visit the Museum on Presidents' Day and drop by the Churchill and Janet Franklin Lyceum for family activities. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free.

  • A Visit with President Lincoln

    A Visit with President Lincoln is on a first-come basis. Please arrive early to ensure a seat.  The program will begin promptly at 1:00 p.m. The Museum is pleased to again host Steve Wood and his amazing performance as Abraham Lincoln. Wood's first-person historical interpretation, "A Visit with Abraham Lincoln," includes stories of Lincoln's early […]

  • Sweet History: Colonial Chocolate

    Immerse yourself in the colonial home as a living historian grinds cocoa beans, adds spices and concocts delicious treats by the winter hearth.  Read a colonial recipe or “receipt” and decipher the steps to cooking rare delicacies in colonial Concord. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free.