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  • Patriots’ Ball

    The Guild of Volunteers cordially invites you to The Patriots' Ball, the annual gala to benefit the Museum’s educational initiatives. The evening includes cocktail, dinner, dancing, and a live auction. More information, here. Click here to register online, or call (978) 369-9763, x 216

  • Fresh Goods Lecture Series – The Indigenous Look

    The Indigenous Look: attire in 18th century Massachusetts As part of our Fresh Goods exhibition lecture series, Aquinnah Wampanoag artist and designer Elizabeth James-Perry will discuss the period from 1750 -1900 in terms of Indigenous Massachusetts attire and jewelry. While preferences often continued for use of soft smoked deerskin, elk and textured moose for clothing and sturdy […]

  • Fresh Goods Lecture Series: Transgressing the Color Line

    Transgressing the Color Line: Depictions of Free Blacks in the Popular Press As part of the Fresh Goods Lecture Series, join writer and historian Jonathan Michael Square as he analyzes images of free Africans Americans in New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston that appeared in the popular press. Specifically, a series of cartoons published in the early […]

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    “Fresh Goods” Gallery Talk

    Join Concord Museum Curator David Wood for a closer look at Fresh Goods: Shopping for Clothing in a New England Town, 1750-1900.  Free with Museum admission, members free.

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    Decades of Fashion Cocktail Party

    Dress in your favorite decade and enjoy a fashion-centric evening at the Concord Museum, complete with cocktails and treats inspired by the history of fashion in New England! Visit our current exhibition, Fresh Goods: Shopping for Clothing in a New England Town,and view clothing and accessories that reflect how locals experienced shopping in the 18th, 19th, […]

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    Hidden Treasures: Wright Tavern Open House

    Built in 1747, Wright Tavern secured its place in American history in 1774 and 1775 when the First Massachusetts Provincial Congress used it as a convening space. Then on April 19, 1775, it was used as a meeting place for the local colonial militia, and later that same day it was taken over as the […]

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    Fresh Goods Lecture Series: Shift, Stays, and Pannier

    Shift, Stays, and Pannier As part of the Fresh Goods lecture series,  join historians and living history interpreters Linda Greene and Michele Gabrielson for an in-depth look at how women got dressed every day in the 1700s. They will explore the “ins” and “outs” of a typical 18th century woman’s dress from a common, lower […]

  • Garden Tour

    Friday and Saturday, June 1 and 2, 2018 - Celebrating 29 Years of a New England Tradition The famed Concord spokesman for individualism and self-reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson, once wrote: “When I go into a good garden, I think, if it were mine, I should never go out of it.” This year the Concord Museum […]

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    29th Annual Garden Tour

    Celebrating 29 Years of a New England Tradition, the Museum's Garden Tour has become a New England tradition for garden lovers from near and far. The Garden Tour will take place on two days, Friday and Saturday, June 1 and June 2, rain or shine. Each of the private gardens reflects the individual interests and […]

  • Emerson’s Circle: Concord in the 1800s

    Emerson’s Circle: Concord in the 1800s

    This walk meets at Wright Tavern (2 Lexington Road, Concord MA 01742). Led by a Museum educator, explore 1800s Concord and discover the impact of the anti-slavery movement and the Civil War, the lives and homes of the famous authors who lived here, and how these stories have been preserved over the generations. 1 mile […]

  • At the Center of Revolution

    At the Center of Revolution

    This walk meets at Wright Tavern (2 Lexington Road, Concord MA 01742). Led by a Museum educator, take the short walk from the Tavern to the Old North Bridge. Learn about the events leading up to April 19, 1775 and the first battle of the American Revolution. Discover the stories behind the monuments at the […]