Try your hand at fan making with an experienced teaching artist from the Umbrella Arts Center. Visit the special exhibition What Makes History to see an exquisite sample of the Concord Museum’s vast collection of fans from around the world. Then, learn common fan making techniques and create your own fan to take home. 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. […]
Join us for a musical journey through the landscape with musician Ben Crosgrove. Straddling a line between folk and classical music, Ben performs as described by The Boston Globe “like a sonic plein-air painter”. Having performed across the country and composed music for NASA and Acadia National Park, Ben now joins us here in Concord […]
Who gets pockets, and why? It’s a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men’s clothes have so many pockets and women’s so few? Hannah Carlson, fashion historian at the Rhode Island School of Design, joins us for a conversation on the issues of gender politics, security, sexuality, power, and privilege tucked inside […]
Concord Museum members and the public are invited to view the new special exhibition What Makes History: New Stories from the Collections. At 11:00am and 2:00pm, Museum curators will lead a guided tour. No advanced registration required. With Museum admission. Members visit free.
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 […]
Visit during school vacation to immerse yourself in the colonial home as a living historian demonstrates quilting a petticoat. Learn about the process of quilting and how it was often a community effort. No advanced registration required.
The Museum is pleased to again host Steve Wood and his amazing performance as Abraham Lincoln. Wood’s first-person historical interpretation 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. No advanced registration required. Free […]
Leila Philip, professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross, highlights how beavers played an oversized role in American history and how they can play an important role in its future. Beaverland is a poignant personal narrative, a startling portrait of the secretive world of the contemporary fur trade, and an engrossing ecological […]
Music historian Judith Tick takes on a music-filled journey through the life of American music titan, Ella Fitzgerald. In the first major biography since Fitzgerald’s death, Professor Tick draws on deep archival research, family interviews, and newly available recordings and concert footage to show how the musician fused a Black vocal aesthetic with mainstream popular […]
