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Venue:	Concord Museum
Hours:	1:00-4:00 pm
Ages:	Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	Free
Category:	Arts & Culture

Winter afternoons are the perfect opportunity to come to the Concord Museum. Visit for the first time or revisit favorite galleries – all free on the following Sunday afternoons: Sunday, January 15th from 1:00 – 4:00 and Sunday, January 22nd from 1:00 – 4:00.

With one of the oldest collections of Americana in the country, the Concord Museum is renowned for its national treasures. In the history galleries and period rooms of the Museum, visitors discover the famous lantern hung in the steeple on the night of Paul Revere’s ride in 1775, the contents of Henry D.

Thoreau’s house at Walden Pond, including the desk on which he wrote “Civil Disobedience” and Walden, and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Study, where he wrote his influential essays and met with other distinguished writers and thinkers during the American literary renaissance. A nationally-significant collection of Concord-made clocks, furniture and silver and other decorative arts serve to illustrate three centuries of Concord’s domestic life.

Bring the family and see the 15 minute film, “Exploring Concord,” enjoy treasure hunts for younger children and hands-on activities in many of the galleries of the Museum.

Also on view is the special exhibition, Crowdsourcing a Collection. In honor of the 125th anniversary of the Concord Museum, the exhibition offers some unexpected perspectives on a remarkable collection. Over forty Guest Curators, including Senator John Kerry, historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Nathaniel Philbrick; arts and entertainment critic Joyce Kulhawik; authors Robert Coles and Alan Lightman; Honored Concord Citizens Dot Higgins and Marian Thornton; and Mayor of Nanae, Concord’s sister city in Japan, Yasukazu Nakamiya, have selected an object from the Museum’s collection that has personal meaning. The anniversary exhibition, sponsored by Skinner, Inc., with media sponsor WGBH, is on view through March 18, 2012.

WEBSITE

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www.concordmuseum.org/visit/calendar.html

LOCATION

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200 Lexington Rd., Concord, MA, 01742 map
Phone: 978-369-9763

The Concord Museum is located in historic Concord, Massachusetts at the intersection of Lexington Road and Cambridge Turnpike (GPS address: 53 Cambridge Turnpike). The Museum has free parking on Cambridge Turnpike.