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  • Summer Night at Wright Tavern: Crafty Bastards with Lauren Clark and Saltbox Kitchen Brewery and BareWolf Brewing

    The region that defined Yankee ingenuity has a beer heritage in keeping with its character. Brewing in New England goes back four centuries, beginning with the Pilgrims who dropped anchor in Plymouth because their supply of beer was running low.  Author of Crafty Bastards: Brewing in New England from the Mayflower to Modern Day, Lauren Clark discusses the […]

  • Film Screening: Surveyor of the Soul

    Thoreau wrote that he “was born in the nick of time” in Concord, Massachusetts and went on to famously write about building a cabin and living at Walden Pond.  This film tells the story of his life and his time at Walden Pond as well as the impact his writings have had on environmental issues, […]

  • SOLD OUT Emerson’s Circle Walking Tour

    SOLD OUT In the 1800s, Concord was the center for American authors and thinkers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Louisa May Alcott. They gathered together with other Concordians to discuss issues of the day such as slavery, war, the natural world, and many other topics. Led by a Museum educator, explore 1800s […]

  • An Evening with Robert Richardson

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDFPhFZBjwA&feature=youtu.be Join renowned scholar Robert Richardson as he shares recent reflections on Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism with responses from Bay Emerson Bancroft, Robert Gross, and Megan Marshall. Robert Richardson was born in Milwaukee, spent his early years in Medford and Concord, attended and graduated from Harvard, and then pursued a career of teaching and writing. […]

  • Free Fun Friday

    Thanks to the generosity of the Highland Street Foundation, the Concord Museum is open FREE all day from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Experience Concord's history through object-based and hands-on activities.  All activities are on a first come, first served basis and will run rain or shine. Inside the Anna and Neil Rasmussen Education Center […]

  • RESCHEDULED TO NOV. 7: Why They Marched

    Why They Marched: A Conversation with Susan Ware: RESCHEDULED TO NOVEMBER 7, 2019 For far too long, the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the tale of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born. Join us for a conversation with Susan Ware, as she uncovers a […]

  • Art and Action for Suffrage: Women’s Suffrage Turns 100 Family Program

    Explore the activism and debate around women’s suffrage in Concord.  Using primary materials from the Concord Museum Collection, participants will examine the variety of printed materials from both sides of the debate. Through close-looking and thinking routines, participants will determine what makes effective and convincing propaganda. 100 years after women gained the right to vote, what […]

  • POSTPONED: Black Devil and Gentle Cloud: Ruskin and Emerson at Odds

    Program Postponed: Unfortunately, the August 15 Concord Museum Forum with Sara Atwood on Black Devil and Gentle Cloud: Ruskin and Emerson at Odds, has been postponed. We are working to reschedule this Forum, and will post updated information as soon as possible. John Ruskin and Ralph Waldo Emerson are among the 'representative men' of the Victorian period […]

  • Women of Concord Walking Tour

    Walk through town and focus on the notable women who shaped Concord’s history.  The tour highlights famous historical figures as Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller, to those who are less well known, such as Ellen Garrison and Mary Merrick Brooks. Walking Tour tickets gain you free same-day admission to the Concord Museum, including the […]

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    Women of Concord Collection Spotlight

    Featuring intimate imagery from the Concord Museum’s collection, explore the lives and legacies of women who have shaped and continue to shape the American experience with Concord Museum curator David Wood. Included with Museum admission; Members free. Program seating is first come first serve. Image: Inscribed Leaf. Sophia E. Thoreau, October 13, 1868. Shagbark hickory, ink. […]

  • SOLD OUT I Want to Go to Jail

    SOLD OUT - Thank you for your interest in our programs.  Please join us for other upcoming forums in September including The Scrapbooks of Helen Thoreau and The Cabinet Maker's Account. A staged reading of “I Want to Go to Jail”, an original play by Pamela Swing, Ph.D., and Elizabeth Dabanka, Brandeis undergraduate performed in period […]

  • POSTPONED Monument Maker

    POSTPONED - Thank you for your interest in our programs! Monument Maker with Linda Sweeney and Shawn Fields has been rescheduled to Sunday, December 15 at 11:00 AM. Know what you love. Make what you love.  Join author Linda Sweeney and illustrator Shawn Fields in a program about the life and artwork of Concord-sculptor Daniel Chester French.  […]