• Memory Jars Family Program at the Concord Museum

    Memory Jars Family Program at the Concord Museum

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

    Read the book "Memory Jars", explore its Family Tree, and add to the Concord Museum’s memory jar. See 34 festively-decorated trees and wreaths on display for Family Trees: A Celebration of Children's Literature, and visit our 16 all-new galleries! Free with Museum admission. Members visit free. Not a member yet? Join when you arrive and...

  • Costume Character Day with the Grinch at the Concord Museum

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

    Come by the Concord Museum to meet the Grinch! Your heart will grow three sizes when you meet Dr. Seuss’s famous holiday character. Visitors can meet the Grinch and hear the story How the Grinch Stole Christmas! See 34 festively-decorated trees and wreaths on display for Family Trees: A Celebration of Children's Literature, and visit...

  • Memory Jars Family Program at the Concord Museum

    Memory Jars Family Program at the Concord Museum

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

    Read the book "Memory Jars", explore its Family Tree, and add to the Concord Museum’s memory jar. See 34 festively-decorated trees and wreaths on display for Family Trees: A Celebration of Children's Literature, and visit our 16 all-new galleries! Free with Museum admission. Members visit free. Not a member yet? Join when you arrive and...

  • Liberty and Loyalty: Embroidered Coats of Arms in an Age of Revolution

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

    In 1775, Mary Jones of Weston Massachusetts watched her life collapse around her as her family, all supporters of the British Crown, fled their homes and had their immense fortune confiscated during the Revolution. Among what she had left to remember them was a mostly finished needlework sampler displaying the Jones family coat of arms....

  • Reckoning with Monuments in the North: A Conversation with W. Ralph Eubanks

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

    Though there are no statues honoring the Confederacy to be found in Boston and Cambridge, award-winning author W. Ralph Eubanks discusses the historic memorials that obscure the achievements of Black Americans. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with the Mississippi native on his experience spending a year surrounded by the monuments of the American North...

  • Lincoln Memorial Illustrated Family Program

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

    Drop by the Concord Museum’s Lyceum to learn about monuments and leaders through sculpture and drawing. Stop in to see the Museum's current exhibition, The Lincoln Memorial Illustrated. One of the most revered and visited sites in Washington, D.C. and in the nation, the Lincoln Memorial is now a century old. Dedicated on May 30,...

  • Saving Yellowstone: A Conversation with Megan Kate Nelson

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

    Pulitzer Prize finalist and Civil War historian Megan Kate Nelson tells the vivid story of how, 150 years ago, Yellowstone became the world’s first national park amid the nationwide turmoil and racial violence of the Reconstruction era. A narrative of adventure and exploration, the creation of Yellowstone is also a story of Indigenous resistance and...

  • Exhibition: A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library

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

    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...

  • Gallery Tour with the Curators

    Gallery Tour with the Curators

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

    Curators from the Concord Museum and the Concord Free Public Library lead guided tours of the new special exhibition "A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library". No advanced registration necessary. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free. In honor of the Concord Free Public Library’s 150th anniversary, the Concord...

  • Gallery Tour with the Curators

    Gallery Tour with the Curators

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

    Curators from the Concord Museum and the Concord Free Public Library lead guided tours of the new special exhibition "A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library". No advanced registration necessary. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free. In honor of the Concord Free Public Library’s 150th anniversary, the Concord...

  • Exhibition: A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library

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

    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...

  • Exhibition: A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library

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

    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...