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What Makes History? New Stories from the Collection
What Makes History? New Stories from the Collection The things we keep matter for the stories we tell. What objects do we choose to preserve, and who is able to collect them? Why were they once valued, and how can we continue to see them in new ways? This special exhibition explores what it means […]
Nummeehquantamūmun
Nummeehquantamūmun nia holley, Nipmuc, is reintroducing corn in the Museum’s interior courtyard as a process to reawaken the mortar and return corn to this place. This mortar is one of many mortars held by the Concord Museum that have been used for a variety of purposes by Indigenous communities, including processing food, medicines, and pigments. […]
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FULL! Grave Detectives Walking Tour
FULL! Grave Detectives Walking Tour
This program is full. Please join us for another program this summer! Tour the first burial ground in Concord dating to c. 1636 learning about past Concordians with a Museum educator. Explore the classic iconography of New England headstones that feature winged skulls or “death’s head”, urns, willows, and others. This tour includes about 1 […]
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250 Days to the 250th Community Day
250 Days to the 250th Community Day
Enjoy free admission and family activities as we begin the countdown to the 250th anniversary of April 19, 1775. While you are at the Museum, see the lantern that was used as a signal on the night of Paul Revere's midnight ride along with other objects that witnessed this pivotal day in history. From 5:30 […]
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We Were Friends Play
We Were Friends Play
Episode: And Then: Late Night This program is full. At-the-door registration is closed, and there will be no tickets for sale at the door. Because of inclement weather, this program is now being held inside the Churchill and Janet Franklin Lyceum at the Concord Museum. Award-winning Firelight Theatre Workshop presents We Were Friends, a playful reimagining […]
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Conservation in Action: Historic Clothing Collection
Conservation in Action: Historic Clothing Collection
Drop in to the Lisa H. Foote History Learning Center during your visit to the Concord Museum to see conservators conducting a detailed survey of the Museum’s historic clothing collection. See the clothing collection in a unique setting and learn about the ongoing and important work of preserving the Museum’s collection. This program is ongoing […]
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Object Spotlight Talk: Sewing Table
Object Spotlight Talk: Sewing Table
This talk will take place at 2:30pm in the To Set This World Right Gallery. This sewing table was likely used by Cynthia, Helen, and Sophia Thoreau in their home when making quilts for antislavery fundraising fairs hosted by the Concord Female Anti-Slavery Society. Female antislavery activists faced many challenges including not having the right to vote […]
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Object Spotlight Talk: Vedic Texts
Object Spotlight Talk: Vedic Texts
This talk will take place at 2:30pm in the Thoreau Gallery. An English traveler and writer, Thomas Cholmondeley (pronounced “chumly”), gifted Henry David Thoreau 44 volumes of sacred texts of India’s Vedic literary tradition. On his death, Thoreau bequeathed half of the volumes to Ralph Waldo Emerson and half to Bronson Alcott. This spotlight talk takes a […]