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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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Inspired by the discovery of a mysterious manuscript in an old farmhouse just north of Concord, historian John Kaag takes us on a multi-generational exploration of one of America’s first and most expansive pioneer families. The Bloods explored and laid claim to the frontiers—geographic, political, intellectual, and spiritual—that would become the very core of the...
Enjoy free admission to the Museum and visit the immersive April 19, 1775 gallery to see the “One if by land, two if by sea” lantern hung in the North Church to signal Paul Revere on his midnight ride. During your visit, participate in drop-in activities to learn about life and craft in the colonies....
"Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread" highlights needlework produced by young women in New England and specifically the extraordinary collection of samplers at the Concord Museum. Featuring 30 samplers sewn in the early 1700s to mid-1800s, the exhibition explores how young women created records of their own lives and experiences, written in thread. "Interwoven: Women's...
