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Concord Museum’s 35th Annual Garden Tour

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Join us for a day of beauty, nature, and discovery as you visit private gardens throughout Concord. This year’s Tour features six stunning private gardens in Concord – from a manicured garden with cultivated flower beds, to a Japanese-inspired garden, to a unique jewel of a low-maintenance garden (with no grass(!), with many rare plants...

Butch Heroes: A Conversation with Ria Brodell

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Ria Brodell is a non-binary trans artist, educator, and author with a current solo exhibition at the Fitchburg Art Museum. Ria joins us at the Museum for a conversation on their ongoing series entitled Butch Heroes. Through this revelatory project of historic excavation and Queer reclamation, they create real or imagined portraits of their subjects...

Juneteenth Family Performance

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Join us for a celebratory Juneteenth performance with the Boston-based Benkadi Drum and Dance Company. With vivid costumes and uplifting energy, the multicultural company performs traditional West African rhythm and movements with singing, drumming, and dancing. Participate in the dancing and learn West African traditions. Free. Advanced Registration Required.

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Antislavery Walking Tour

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Coinciding with the celebration of Juneteenth, join us for a walking tour introducing participants to the Concord women and men who played a crucial role in the abolitionist movement in the years leading up to the Civil War. This tour includes a significant amount (over 1.5 miles) of walking on hilly, unpaved terrain. $10 Members...

An Evening with Tiya Miles on Harriet Tubman

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

National Book Award–winning author Tiya Miles, joins Pulitzer Prize winning historian Jacqueline Jones for a revelatory conversation on the myth and the truth behind Harriet Tubman, one of the most famous Americans ever born who few really understand. A figure more out of myth than history, Harriet Tubman becomes an even clearer and sharper signal...

1774 and All That: Reflections on a Long Year of Revolution

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

On September 19, 2024, the Concord Museum will commence its highly anticipated fall forum series with a special discussion featuring Mary Beth Norton, renowned historian and award winning author of the landmark text 1774: The Long Year of Revolution. This exciting event marks the beginning of a series of programs hosted by the Concord Museum...

Akhil Amar on The US Constitution

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Akhil Amar, preeminent legal scholar and author of The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840, joins us for a timely conversation on the US Constitution, exploring the formative decades after its ratification and its resonance today.

MLK Day of Service

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Gather at the Concord Museum to prepare Kids’ Bags that provide kid-friendly meals and snacks for a child in our local community. An activity for the whole family, decorate and assemble bags to help ensure a child has access to healthy food. Hosted by the Concord Museum Contemporary Leaders and in partnership with Open Table.

An Evening of Songs and Stories

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Concord-based musician and author Anna Huckabee Tull and her musical partner Mickey Zibello share their award-winning songs and the stories that brought the music to life. Together they remind us to think broadly and feel deeply.

Fashioning Identity: The Garrisons and African American Fashion in Photography

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Fashion historian Jonathan Michael Square explores the historical significance of the Garrisons’ portraits in the context of African American fashion, and how these images fit into the larger narrative of how African Americans have expressed themselves through fashion.

Exhibition Spotlight Talk

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Take a deep dive into some of the stories featured in the Museum’s special exhibition Portrait Mode with Associate Curator and Director of Exhibitions Reed Gochberg. In this specialty tour, you will go beyond the labels to understand whose faces become a part of history. No registration required.

A Visit with President Lincoln

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

The Museum is pleased to host Steve Wood and his amazing performance as Abraham Lincoln. Wood’s first-person historical interpretation, “A Visit with Abraham Lincoln,” includes stories of Lincoln’s early life, campaign debates, the Civil War, and concludes with a stirring reading of the Gettysburg Address. Seating is limited and available on a first-come basis.

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