Concord Museum

Historian Beverly Gage discusses&nbsp;This Land Is Your Land, a sweeping examination of American democracy, protest, and power. Drawing on vivid stories and deep research, Gage traces how struggles over rights, belonging, and national identity have shaped the nation and why those struggles continue to matter today.&nbsp;
Supported in part by Mass Humanities.
Members Free | $10 Non-Members | Free Virtual

Local Event: This Land is Your Land

Middlesex County

Concord

Massachusetts

This Land is Your Land

Historian Beverly Gage discusses This Land Is Your Land, a sweeping examination of American democracy, protest, and power....

Join us on a ride through the historic towns of Concord, Lexington, Lincoln, Bedford, and Carlisle on the second annual Paul Revere’s Bike Ride for the Concord Museum. Starting at the Concord Museum near the historic town center, cyclists can choose to ride a 19 or 32 mile loop on paved roads, passing many Revolutionary landmarks like the North Bridge, the Lexington Green, the Paul Revere Capture Site, and much more!

Local Event: Second Annual Paul Revere’s Bike Ride

Second Annual Paul Revere’s Bike Ride

Join us on a ride through the historic towns of Concord, Lexington, Lincoln, Bedford, and Carlisle on the second annual Paul...

Celebrate Emerson’s birthday and follow the footsteps of writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau! Enjoy the spring weather and learn about the friendship of two notable observers of nature from a museum interpreter.&nbsp;1-mile walk,&nbsp;uneven&nbsp;and&nbsp;unpaved terrain,&nbsp;rain&nbsp;or shine.&nbsp;Meet at the Concord Museum.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
In partnership with the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association.&nbsp;
$10 Members | $20 Non-Members. Includes same-day admission to the Concord Museum.

Local Event: Emerson-Thoreau Amble

Emerson-Thoreau Amble

Celebrate Emerson’s birthday and follow the footsteps of writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau! Enjoy the spring...

Join Curator and Director of Exhibitions Christie Jackson and Curator David Wood for a gallery talk in the new special exhibition&nbsp;Revolutionary Legacies.&nbsp;
Free with Museum admission. Members visit free.

Local Event: Curator Spotlight Talk: Revolutionary Legacies 

Curator Spotlight Talk: Revolutionary Legacies 

Join Curator and Director of Exhibitions Christie Jackson and Curator David Wood for a gallery talk in the new special...

Tour Old Hill Burial Ground and learn about the Revolutionary War soldiers buried in Concord’s oldest cemetery. Visit the final resting place of some of the most well-known figures from April 19,&nbsp;1775&nbsp;including Emerson Cogswell, Colonel Barrett, and Captain David Brown.&nbsp;This tour includes about 1 mile of walking on hilly, unpaved terrain.
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members. Includes same-day admission to the Concord Museum.

Local Event: Old Hill Burial Ground Walking Tour 

Old Hill Burial Ground Walking Tour 

Tour Old Hill Burial Ground and learn about the Revolutionary War soldiers buried in Concord’s oldest cemetery. Visit the final...

Celebrate&nbsp;Juneteenth with an evening of wine, beer, and light refreshments in the Museum’s courtyard, followed by a guided tour&nbsp;of&nbsp;the galleries. Explore Concord’s rich Black and Abolitionist histories through powerful stories, images, and objects from the Museum’s collection. 
Your ticket includes drinks outside in the courtyard before the tour, which begins at 7:15 pm. 
Co-sponsored by The Robbins House. 
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members

Local Event: Concord’s Black History | History Happy Hour

Concord’s Black History | History Happy Hour

Celebrate Juneteenth with an evening of wine, beer, and light refreshments in the Museum’s courtyard, followed by a guided...

Join us for a celebratory Juneteenth performance of the History of Hip Hop Dance from the acclaimed ensemble Illstyle and Peace Productions. Tracing hip hop dance styles from the late 70’s through today, this acclaimed ensemble teaches positive messages, including “Think It—Do It—Become It.” The performance celebrates the art and movement of hip hop and includes a funky blend of locking, breaking, popping, tap and house dancing, vocal percussions, D.J.ing, and modern and traditional dance forms.  
Free | Advance Registration Required

Local Event: Juneteenth Family Performance

Juneteenth Family Performance

Join us for a celebratory Juneteenth performance of the History of Hip Hop Dance from the acclaimed ensemble Illstyle and Peace...

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.&nbsp;This tour includes a significant amount (over 1.5 miles) of walking on hilly, unpaved terrain. 
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members. Includes same-day admission to the Concord Museum.

Local Event: Antislavery Walking Tour 

Antislavery Walking Tour 

Coinciding with the celebration of Juneteenth, join us for a walking tour introducing participants to the Concord women and men...

The Concord Museum, in partnership with Lexington History Museums, presents an engaging program highlighting new research and evolving interpretations from the communities at the center of the start of the American Revolution. This conversation brings together Curator David F. Wood, whose work&nbsp;Eyewitness to Revolution&nbsp;draws from the Concord Museum’s renowned collection; Paul O’Shaughnessy, President of Lexington History Museums&nbsp;whose institution recently published&nbsp;Revolutionary Stories; and historian and archaeologist Joel Bohy.&nbsp;
As part of the evening, the Concord Museum will present the Robert A. Gross Award for Advancing Concord’s History to&nbsp;Joel&nbsp;Bohy in recognition of his&nbsp;lifetime of work&nbsp;of&nbsp;researching April 19,&nbsp;1775, that has&nbsp;deepened&nbsp;understanding and ability to accurately interpret this event&nbsp;for institutions like the Concord Museum and Lexington History Museum, and,&nbsp;in turn,&nbsp;the thousands of visitors and students we all serve.&nbsp;
In partnership with Lexington History Museums.&nbsp;
Members Free | $10 Non-Members | Free Virtual

Local Event: From Concord and Lexington: New Perspective on the Revolution

From Concord and Lexington: New Perspective on...

The Concord Museum, in partnership with Lexington History Museums, presents an engaging program highlighting new research and...

From Concord and Lexington: New Perspective on the Revolution

Visitors can enjoy free admission to the Museum&nbsp;on the Fourth of&nbsp;July&nbsp;and enjoy special family activities&nbsp;and food trucks.&nbsp;Hear a gallery talk on&nbsp;with Museum&nbsp;staff&nbsp;on the Revolution and its legacy at 12pm. Visitors will:
<ul><li>Enjoy free admission&nbsp;to see the original Paul Revere lantern&nbsp;and dozens of objects that witnessed the founding of our nation,</li><li>Explore the new special exhibition,&nbsp;<a href="https://concordmuseum.org/event/revolutionary-legacies/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Revolutionary Legacies</a>,&nbsp;</li><li>Listen in on a gallery talk with museum staff,&nbsp;</li><li>Join&nbsp;fun family activities&nbsp;and enjoy&nbsp;food trucks.</li></ul>

Local Event: Fourth Of July Community Day

Fourth Of July Community Day

Visitors can enjoy free admission to the Museum on the Fourth of July and enjoy special family activities and food trucks. Hear...

Goodwin will be performing their third studio release: “Then Rain, Then Wind.”&nbsp;Collaborating with poets across time and space,&nbsp;this album&nbsp;brings&nbsp;aged yet ever salient words to a new generation. Setting the&nbsp;poetry&nbsp;of Emily Dickinson, Rabindranath Tagore, Charles Baudelaire, Langston Hughes, and Li&nbsp;Qinghzhao&nbsp;to music, Goodwin has reached across the globe and through time to create a work that highlights&nbsp;the essential humanity that&nbsp;ties&nbsp;us all together. Join Michael, vocalist Emily Campagna, percussionist&nbsp;Yahuba&nbsp;Garcia, violinist Anne Preis, and cellist Celia Sieckert at the Concord Museum as they perform the album and discuss the unique process of bringing these songs to life.
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members

Local Event: Goodwin Band: Then Rain, Then Wind

Goodwin Band: Then Rain, Then Wind

Goodwin will be performing their third studio release: “Then Rain, Then Wind.” Collaborating with poets across time and...

Tour the heart of the Concord Museum’s collection of objects used and made by Henry David Thoreau in&nbsp;the galleries, which displays more Thoreau objects than have previously been on permanent display and learn about his life in Concord and two years at Walden Pond.
Free with Museum admission. Members visit free.

Local Event: Thoreau Gallery Talk

Thoreau Gallery Talk

Tour the heart of the Concord Museum’s collection of objects used and made by Henry David Thoreau in the galleries, which...

Tour the heart of the Concord Museum’s collection of objects used and made by Henry David Thoreau in&nbsp;the galleries, which displays more Thoreau objects than have previously been on permanent display and learn about his life in Concord and two years at Walden Pond.

Local Event: Thoreau Gallery Talk 

Thoreau Gallery Talk 

Henry David Thoreau is known for the two years he spent living at Walden Pond.&nbsp; Did you know that he lived in other homes in Concord throughout his life?&nbsp;&nbsp;Take a tour of the domestic side of Thoreau’s&nbsp;wholly human&nbsp;life visiting the homes where he lived and hearing the stories told of him by family and friends. 
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members. Includes same-day admission to the Concord Museum.

Local Event: A Walk in Thoreau’s Concord

A Walk in Thoreau’s Concord

Henry David Thoreau is known for the two years he spent living at Walden Pond.  Did you know that he lived in other homes in...

As the country celebrates its 250th Anniversary, enjoy a staged reading and discussion of the new play&nbsp;Walt Whitman’s American Dream&nbsp;by Sarah Vander Schaaff, directed by Brendon Fox, Artistic Director of the renowned Peterborough Players. A juicy biopic, the play&nbsp;stirs&nbsp;the bigger questions still at the heart of our experience;&nbsp;the ensemble of characters includes&nbsp;Concord’s own, Ralph Waldo Emerson. This is a rare chance to see this play as it makes its way across the country. In Partnership with Whitman Crossing and Peterborough Players. 
Join us&nbsp;starting&nbsp;at&nbsp;6:30pm&nbsp;for a reception&nbsp;outside in the courtyard before the performance.&nbsp;Drinks at the reception are included in the tickets.

Local Event: Walt Whitman’s American Dream 

Walt Whitman’s American Dream 

As the country celebrates its 250th Anniversary, enjoy a staged reading and discussion of the new play Walt Whitman’s American...

Join us for an evening of society to celebrate the illustrious literary and&nbsp;transcendentalist&nbsp;history of Concord.&nbsp;with&nbsp;wine, beer, and other beverages in the courtyard, followed by a tour of our singular Thoreau and Emerson collections. 
Your ticket includes drinks outside in the courtyard before the tour, which begins at 7:15 pm. 
Co-sponsored by The Thoreau Alliance.
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members

Local Event: Concord’s Literary Lineage | History Happy Hour

Concord’s Literary Lineage | History Happy Hour

Join us for an evening of society to celebrate the illustrious literary and transcendentalist history of Concord. with wine,...

Award-winning Firelight Theatre Workshop presents&nbsp;We Were Friends: To Bed/Eggs, an episodic project of Firelight’s playful reimagining of Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s profound friendship set in today’s world.&nbsp;A late-night phone conversation between Ralph and Margaret takes the form of a radio play in which music, film, voice, and the hypnotic hum of a sleep apnea machine lead the two friends into territory both more intimate and less certain than any they’ve experienced in each other’s presence. This episode will be followed by a talkback with Firelight’s actors and writers.
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members

Local Event: We Were Friends: To Bed/Eggs    

We Were Friends: To Bed/Eggs    

Award-winning Firelight Theatre Workshop presents We Were Friends: To Bed/Eggs, an episodic project of Firelight’s playful...

Beat the heat with wine, ice-cold beer, and other beverages in our courtyard, followed by a specially curated tour of staff favorites from the Concord Museum’s collection. From beloved hidden gems to iconic highlights, discover what makes these pieces stand out through the eyes of those who know them best. 
Your ticket includes drinks outside in the courtyard before the tour, which begins at 7:15 pm. 
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members

Local Event: Staff Picks from the Collection | History Happy Hour

Staff Picks from the Collection | History Happy...

Beat the heat with wine, ice-cold beer, and other beverages in our courtyard, followed by a specially curated tour of staff...

Staff Picks from the Collection | History Happy Hour

Boston Metropolitan Area

Acton

Bedford

Jessie Castellano

Sudbury

Lexington

Wayland

Weston

William Hall

Waltham

Chris Rhatigan 

Burlington

Westford

Chelmsford

Follen Church

“Johann Sebastian Bach belongs to a family that seems to have received a love and aptitude for music as a gift of Nature to all its members in common.” ~ Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, 1754
Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble performs the final concert-set of its 2025-26 Concert Series “Connection” with a concert featuring the extended Bach family and its many musical talents on the weekend of May 8-10, 2026.&nbsp; All in the Family highlights works for oboe, strings and continuo by sons Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel, cousin Johann Bernhard, wife Anna Magdalena &amp; the master himself, Johann Sebastian Bach.With Daniel Bates, oboe; Christina Day Martinson, Rebecca Nelson, Danilo Bonina, violins; Anna Griffis, viola; Jennifer Morsches, Timothy Merton, cellos; John McKean, harpsichord<ul>
<li>Saturday, May 9, 2026 at 7pm at Friends Meeting House, Cambridge</li>
<li>Sunday, May 10, 2026 at 3:30pm at Follen Church, Lexington</li>
</ul>

Local Event: Sarasa Ensemble Presents 'All in the Family'

Sarasa Ensemble Presents 'All in the Family'

“Johann Sebastian Bach belongs to a family that seems to have received a love and aptitude for music as a gift of Nature to all...

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This Land is Your Land

MAY

11

7:00 PM

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA

Second Annual Paul Revere’s Bike Ride

MAY

16

10:00 AM

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA

Emerson-Thoreau Amble

MAY

23

11:00 AM

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA

Curator Spotlight Talk: Revolutionary Legacies

JUN

12

12:00 PM

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA

Old Hill Burial Ground Walking Tour

JUN

13

11:30 AM

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA

Concord’s Black History | History Happy Hour

JUN

18

6:30 PM

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA

Juneteenth Family Performance

JUN

19

10:00 AM

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA

Antislavery Walking Tour

JUN

19

11:00 AM

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA

From Concord and Lexington: New Perspective on the Revolution

JUN

25

7:00 PM

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA

Fourth Of July Community Day

JUL

4

10:00 AM

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA

Goodwin Band: Then Rain, Then Wind

JUL

9

6:30 PM

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA

Thoreau Gallery Talk

JUL

10

12:00 PM

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA

Thoreau Gallery Talk

JUL

10

12:00 PM

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA

A Walk in Thoreau’s Concord

JUL

11

11:00 AM

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA

A Walk in Thoreau’s Concord

JUL

11

11:00 AM

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA

Walt Whitman’s American Dream