Collecting History at the Concord Museum

The events of April 19, 1775, permanently changed the way Concord has viewed itself. One example of that is
the collection that was begun in 1850 and in 1886 became the Concord Antiquarian Society, now the Concord
The Greatest Events of the Present Era: Museum. In an illustrated presentation Concord Museum curator David Wood will discuss some examples from the Collecting History at the Concord Museum the museum’s remarkable collection, including objects associated with April 19 and the people who were there on that epochal day.

David Wood has served as the Curator of the Concord Museum since 1985. A graduate of the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado with a degree in Fine Arts, he continued his education with masters degrees from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa and Boston University in Boston. Mr. Wood is the author of several articles including, An Observant Eye: The Thoreau Collection at the Concord Museum.