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  • To Set This World Right Gallery Talk

    Slavery was part of Concord’s daily life and pervasive throughout Massachusetts even after its formal abolition in 1783. Join us in the newly installed gallery To Set This World Right to hear about the lives of Communities of Color in Concord and the tireless work of Concord citizens to end slavery in Massachusetts and the […]

  • A Conversation with Jaqueline Jones

    https://youtu.be/fN3e1THzd0w Join the current president of the American Historical Association and Concord resident, Jaqueline Jones, in a wide-ranging conversation about three of her many prize-winning books including: A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America; Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery […]

  • Incorporating Concord: Family Activity

    Drop by the Museum to celebrate the history of Concord’s incorporation as a town! Families can participate in activities that explore life and craft in the era of 1600s Concord. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free. This program is part of Celebrate Concord Week.            

  • Henry David Thoreau Gallery Talk

    Tour the heart of the Concord Museum’s collection of objects used and made by Henry David Thoreau in the newly designed gallery, which displays more Thoreau objects than have previously been on permanent display and learn about his life in Concord and two years at Walden Pond. Held in the Concord Museum Galleries. Participation is […]

  • Farming in Concord: History Learning Center Program

    See some of the treasures from the Concord Museum’s collection in a special program on the history of farming in Concord spanning the tools of Native horticulture to the Concord grape. Participation is on a first-come-first-served basis. This event is free with Museum admission. Members visit free. This program is part of Celebrate Concord Week. […]

  • Celebrate Concord Community Day

    Meet baby lambs and a fluffy angora rabbit outside of the Museum. Watch as their wool and fur are carded and spun into fine yarn and see a master weaver at work on the loom. Free Museum admission for Concord residents.                  

  • Mill Brook Walking Tour

    Follow the Mill Brook with a Museum guide into Concord’s town center where, in the early 1800s, the Milldam was a bustling business district occupied by craftspeople, tradesmen, and other businesses. See the ecologic changes along the brook that were shaped by the millpond and hear how animals moved around the town and brook. 1 […]

  • Getting a Living Gallery Talk

    Learn about Concord’s early industry and see the clocks, silver, furniture, ceramics, and guns that the craftspeople of Concord made and sold on the Milldam in early 1800s Concord. Free with Museum admission. Concord Residents and Members visit free. Image: Plane, H2075_1K Concord Museum collection. This program is part of Celebrate Concord Week.     […]

  • Celebrate Concord Community Day

    “I haven’t a man who is afraid to go!” The Acton Minutemen mustered and marched to the North Bridge on the morning of April 19, 1775 where, under the leadership of Captain Isaac Davis, were first in line of 450 Provincials who advanced on the British Regulars. Visit this brave minute company in an encampment […]

  • Incorporating Concord Gallery Talk

    See Concord in the 1600s when it became colonial New England’s first inland town as we mark the day when the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities granted permission for a “plantation” in what the Native people called Musketaquid. Participation is on a first-come-first-served basis. With Museum admission. Concord Residents and Members visit free. Image: Sword, 1675.  […]

  • Farming in Concord: History Learning Center Program

    See some of the treasures from the Concord Museum’s collection in a special program on the history of farming in Concord spanning the tools of Native horticulture to the Concord grape. Participation is on a first-come-first-served basis. This event is free with Museum admission. Members visit free. This program is part of Celebrate Concord Week. […]

  • Louis Menand on The Free World

    Thank you for tuning into our program! Please submit your questions to the speakers through the chat on YouTube. https://youtu.be/FwL3fXH-Dic Louis Menand, Harvard Professor, New Yorker staff writer, and Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Metaphysical Club discusses his new book, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War in which he tells the […]