Events

190 years ago, while sitting in the upstairs study of the Old Manse, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in Nature that “the world shall be to us an open book.” His words set the stage for many literary greats who lived and visited at the Old Manse, and who took inspiration from the landscape surrounding it....

Come walk under cardboard trees, skip along a cardboard river, and scramble over a cardboard hill! For just two weeks in September, enjoy a surprising setting inside the Museum: a forest made of – you guessed it – cardboard! This one-of-a-kind experience was created with simple materials including boxes, egg cartons, and packing paper, and was built...

Come walk under cardboard trees, skip along a cardboard river, and scramble over a cardboard hill! For just two weeks in September, enjoy a surprising setting inside the Museum: a forest made of – you guessed it – cardboard! This one-of-a-kind experience was created with simple materials including boxes, egg cartons, and packing paper, and was built...

Come walk under cardboard trees, skip along a cardboard river, and scramble over a cardboard hill! For just two weeks in September, enjoy a surprising setting inside the Museum: a forest made of – you guessed it – cardboard! This one-of-a-kind experience was created with simple materials including boxes, egg cartons, and packing paper, and was built...

Join the Concord Museum for an evening with Megan Kate Nelson as she explores the captivating lives of women and men moving through the American West—Indigenous peoples, Black Americans, Mexican Americans, and Canadian and Asian immigrants—in the nineteenth century. Her new book, The Westerners, tracks the attempts of many Americans to remove these individuals from history, through a frontier...

Come walk under cardboard trees, skip along a cardboard river, and scramble over a cardboard hill! For just two weeks in September, enjoy a surprising setting inside the Museum: a forest made of – you guessed it – cardboard! This one-of-a-kind experience was created with simple materials including boxes, egg cartons, and packing paper, and was built...