Unleash your inner artist in a watercolor paint night at the Museum! This special evening begins with a visit to the exhibition A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library, where the instructor will introduce a selection of paintings that exemplify artistic inspiration from the New England landscape. In the […]
When you are visiting the Museum on Patriots’ Day, beware of a Redcoat from the British Army roaming the galleries looking for Provincial rebels. Talk with him about the experiences of the Redcoats on April 19, 1775. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free. Photo courtesy of the Concord Museum
“I haven’t a man who is afraid to go!” Visit the brave Acton Minutemen company in an encampment outside the Concord Museum on Patriots’ Day and see them drilling with muskets to prepare for battle, cooking over a firepit, and demonstrating colonial spinning and sewing. This program is free and open to the public thanks […]
Visit a craftsperson in the Museum demonstrating various objects that were made of horn during the colonial period, including powder horns and everyday items like cups and combs. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free. Photo courtesy of the Concord Museum
Celebrate the start of the American Revolution by exploring artifacts in the Concord Museum and then visit our drop-in activities to learn about life and craft in the colonies. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free. Photo courtesy of the Concord Museum
In honor of the Concord Free Public Library’s 150th anniversary, the Concord Museum and the Library have collaborated on a special exhibition featuring the Library’s art collection. Featured objects will include paintings by Washington Allston, N.C. Wyeth, May Alcott Nieriker, Charles Hovey Pepper, Alicia Keyes, and Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, among other artists, as well as […]
Join Philip J. Deloria, Professor of History at Harvard University, for a wide-ranging conversation about his distinguished career as a scholar of Native American history and current trends in the field today. Deloria is the author of Playing Indian (1998), Indians in Unexpected Places (2004), and Becoming Mary Sully (2019). This program will be held […]
Henry David Thoreau is known for the two years he spent living at Walden Pond. Did you know that he lived in other homes in Concord throughout his life? Take a tour of the domestic side of Thoreau’s wholly human life visiting the homes where he lived and hearing the stories told of him by […]
Annual Mary Lesneski Memorial Lecture at the Concord Museum Brown University professor, Gordon Wood, will discuss his new book, Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution, in which he distills a lifetime of work on constitutional innovations during the Revolutionary era with historian Richard Brown of the University of Connecticut. Advanced registration is required. […]
Visit the Concord Museum on Earth Day and meet birds of prey and learn about their importance to the ecosystem with an educator from Mass Audubon. Species may include owls, falcons, hawks, vultures and eagles. Feel through these powerful and graceful birds a true connection and appreciation for all wildlife and the habitat we share. […]
Visit the Concord Museum this Earth Day and build your own binoculars (without lenses) to explore birds in the sky. But first, test your binoculars out in Alive with Birds. Environmental bonus: recycle by bringing your own toilet paper tubes! Free with Museum admission. Members visit free. Image courtesy of the Concord Museum
Celebrate the start of the American Revolution by exploring artifacts in the Concord Museum and then visit our drop-in activities to learn about life and craft in the colonies. Free with Museum admission thanks to the generosity of the Massachusetts Society of Cincinnati. Members visit free. Photo courtesy of the Concord Museum