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  • Curator Gallery Talk – Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread

    Concord Museum curators will give gallery talks in the new special exhibition Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread.  Hear stories of the lives and education of young women in eighteenth and nineteenth-century New England.   Free for Members 

  • Henry David Thoreau: A Conversation with Lawrence Buell

    https://youtube.com/live/poS-IHi-F2A?feature=share Lawrence Buell, Harvard University Professor Emeritus of American Literature, joins us for a conversation on his new book Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently.  Professor Buell details the complexities and contradictions of Thoreau’s life and work, providing necessary context to understanding a key American writer.   Free Member | $10 Non-Member | Free Virtual

  • FULL! Indigenous Peoples’ Day Family Program with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers

    This program is full! Please consider joining us for another program this fall. Join us for a program and performance with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers, a group of musicians and artisans from the tribal communities of Mashpee on Cape Cod and Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard on Indigenous Peoples’ Day.  Participate in the performance […]

  • FULL! Basic Embroidery Workshop

    Thank you for your interest in our programs. Please consider joining us for another program this fall. This workshop is designed to be a fun and informative introduction to embroidery. Students visit the Museum’s new special exhibition Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread to see extraordinary examples of needlework in the Concord Museum’s collection, then […]

  • Postponed: An Evening with David Hackett Fischer

    Due to an unexpected health issue, this program will be postponed.  Thank you for joining us for another program this fall. Pulitzer Prize winning historian, David Hackett Fischer, joins us for an evening reflecting on his career, what he’s learned since his landmark text Paul Revere’s Ride, and the role of Concord and neighboring communities […]

  • Music & Folklore

    The Purse and the Person: A Century of Women’s Purses

    Concord Museum and Concord Conservatory of Music partner to present Music & Folklore, musical evocations of the tales and characters of oral folk traditions from around the globe. The ancient art form of storytelling is a common thread of all people, one which connects humanity, enchants us, and communicates knowledge, experience, and characters. This chamber […]

  • Emerson’s Circle Walking Tour

    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 Concord and […]

  • Family Halloween Celebration and Pumpkin Decorating

    Join the Concord Museum Contemporary Leaders for a festive fall morning of pumpkin decorating at the Museum.  Pumpkins and decorating supplies will be provided along with Halloween treats! Tickets are free for members of the Concord Museum Contemporary Leaders.  Otherwise, tickets are $20 per pumpkin.  Please reserve and purchase tickets with the form below. This […]

  • Sleepy Hollow-een Tour

    Sleepy Hollow-een Tour

    Join us for this special Halloween event! Take a tour through historic Sleepy Hollow Cemetery with a Concord Museum guide. Learn about the lives and deaths of past Concordians through stories passed down through the generations. 1 mile walk, mostly flat sidewalk or pavement; rain or shine.   $10 Member | $20 Non-Member In-Person Walking […]

  • Sleepy Hollow-een Tour

    Sleepy Hollow-een Tour

    Join us for this special Halloween event! Take a tour through historic Sleepy Hollow Cemetery with a Concord Museum guide. Learn about the lives and deaths of past Concordians through stories passed down through the generations. 1 mile walk, mostly flat sidewalk or pavement; rain or shine.   $10 Member | $20 Non-Member In-Person Walking […]

  • Black Girls and Their Needlework in Early America

    11th Annual Sally Lanagan Lecture https://youtube.com/live/xnwa6HdHAUM?feature=share Dr. Kelli Racine Barnes joins us to discuss the lives and experiences of Black girls during the late 1700s and early 1800s in the northeastern United States by examining the needlework they created.  By using material culture as primary evidence, the needlework provides valuable clues about the lives of […]

  • Curator Gallery Talk – Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread

    Concord Museum curators will give a gallery talk in the new special exhibition Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread.  Hear stories of the lives and education of young women in eighteenth and nineteenth century New England.   No advanced registration necessary.  Free with Museum admission.  Members visit free.