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  • MLK Day of Service

    "Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve." - Martin Luther King, Jr. Join us on Martin Luther King Jr. Day for a morning of service hosted by the Concord Museum Contemporary Leaders. In collaboration with Open Table, we'll be assembling and decorating food pantry bags to support our local community.  After you register, stay […]

  • Beyond the Exhibition: A Close Look at Needlework

    A Lisa H. Foote History Learning Center Program Visit the special exhibition Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread with the Museum’s curator to learn about the Museum’s exemplary collection of needlework samplers.  As part of the program, participants will have the opportunity to view samplers not included in the exhibition and look closely at the […]

  • Object Spotlight Talk: Silk Shoe in the April 19th gallery

    Learn how a fancy silk and wool shoe connects to the important role women played in boycotting goods from England during the American Revolution. In the 18th century, American milliners often imported fancy English shoes for sale to their customers, but unpopular tax laws from the British government led colonists to protest by refusing to purchase items imported […]

  • An Evening with Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard University President Emerita

    https://youtube.com/live/jRaZSeFPcsI?feature=share Drew Gilpin Faust, President Emerita of Harvard University, joins us for a special evening reflecting on her instant New York Times bestselling memoir, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury.  Professor Faust reflects on the formative experiences of her youth during the turbulence of the 1950s and 60s – including her time as a student […]

  • Object Spotlight Talk: Louisa May Alcott’s Tea Kettle

    Learn about the story behind the tea kettle that Louisa May Alcott used while serving as a nurse for the Union Army in Washington, D.C. during the Civil War. Alcott is most famous as the author of Little Women, but years prior she wrote “Hospital Sketches,” based on her now-lost letters home which she reported were […]

  • Object Spotlight Talk: Jack Garrison’s Walking Stick

    Jack Garrison lived as a free man in Concord during the first half of the 19th century. He’d been enslaved in New Jersey until he fled to Massachusetts in 1810. In Concord, he began working as a laborer for hire and married Susan Robbins Middleton, an ardent civil rights activist. Together they raised a family […]

  • Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH3ulITG5ok Leila Philip, professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross, highlights how beavers played an oversized role in American history and how they can play an important role in its future.  Beaverland is a poignant personal narrative, a startling portrait of the secretive world of the contemporary fur trade, and an engrossing […]

  • Spotlight Talk: Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread

    Take a deep dive into highlights from the special exhibition Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread with Concord Museum curator, David Wood.  Not an extensive tour of the exhibition, this spotlight talk will delve into the design and structure of selected items to see what they reveal about the schools where they were made and […]

  • Free Admission for February School Vacation Week

    February School Vacation

    Free Admission for February School Vacation Week Looking for family-friendly activities during February School Vacation week? The Concord Museum is offering FREE ADMISSION to all visitors February 15 - 23. Bring the whole family to explore the immersive April 19, 1775 galleries to learn more about Concord’s remarkable revolutionary history. See the original lantern from […]

  • A Visit with President Lincoln

    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 life, campaign debates, the Civil War, and concludes with a stirring reading of the Gettysburg Address.  Seating is limited and available on a first-come basis. […]