Events
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An Old Fashioned Breakfast with Laura Ziman
Wake up in 18th century Concord and immerse yourselves in the daily lives of children and families. Discover the many similarities and differences between the daily lives and routines of […]
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Concord Museum – Salesforce 24th Annual Golf Tournament
Each year the Concord Museum holds a premier golf tournament, organized by the Museum's Guild of Volunteers, to support the Museum's education initiatives. The Museum’s educational programs teach children about […]
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SOLD OUT Antislavery Walking Tour
SOLD OUT – Thank you for your interest in our programs. Please consider signing up for these other upcoming walking tours including Emerson’s Circle on Saturday, July 27 and Women of Concord on Saturday, August 17. 19th century Concord was teeming with activists and intellectuals who cultivated the beginning of the antislavery movement. Coinciding with the […]
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SOLD OUT – Father’s Day Beer Talk and Tasting
SOLD OUT - Thank you for your interest in our programs. Please consider joining us for Summer Night at Wright Tavern on Thursday, July 11. Celebrate a very special Father’s Day at historic Wright Tavern! Join us for a conversation with Mike Smith author of The Comic Book Story of Beer and head brewer for Aeronaut […]
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June Member Meet-Up: Historic New England’s Gropius House
Join other Concord Museum Members to celebrate 100 years of the Bauhaus movement with a tour of Historic New England's Gropius House, designed and lived in by Walter Gropius, one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. This unique home was built in 1938 in the rural landscape of Lincoln, MA and whether […]
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Your Everyday Companion: Journal-Making for Families
Bring your family to learn about the man who inspired the diligent documentation of the greater Walden Woods ecosystem. Create your own hand-made journal, just as Henry David Thoreau made […]
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SOLD OUT! Reenactment of a Meeting of the Provincial Congress 1774
SOLD OUT! Thank you for your interest in our Reenactment of a Meeting of the Provincial Congress 1774 in historic Wright Tavern. Sign up for Summer Night Beer Tasting and Talk to get a taste of history in Wright Tavern! The Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre have thrown the Massachusetts Bay Colony into chaos. […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]