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  • 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, […]

  • Nummeehquantamūmun

    Nummeehquantamūmun nia holley, Nipmuc, is reintroducing corn in the Museum’s interior courtyard as a process to reawaken the mortar and return corn to this place. This mortar is one of many mortars held by the Concord Museum that have been used for a variety of purposes by Indigenous communities, including processing food, medicines, and pigments. […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • We Were Friends

    Episode One: Two Years In: Birthdays Advanced ticket sales are now closed. Please purchase tickets at the door. Award-winning Firelight Theatre Workshop presents We Were Friends, a playful reimagining of Margaret […]