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 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 m......More

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! This year’s 19-mile route is friendlier to families, including a segment on the iconic Minuteman Bikeway. Register on BikeRegAll registrants will receive: Paul Revere’s Bike Ride T-shirtOn-course mechanical support and additional neutral road supportFree admission to the Concord Museum on Ride DayPost-Ride Party with beer, music, and food trucks begins at 11:30 am at the Concord Museum. All are welcome!Check-in will be at the Concord Museum on May 16 starting at 8:30 am. Long loop cyclists will begin the ride at 10:00 am, and short loop cyclists will begin the ride at 10:30 am. All registrants must check-in and pick up their packets and T-shirts before the ride. Avoid the lines, and check-in early between Wednesday, May 13 – Friday, May 15 at the Concord Museum between 10:00 am – 4:00 pm. All net proceeds from the events will support the Museum’s educational programs, making it possible for more than 15,500 school children to learn from the Museum’s unique collection and expert educators each year. FAQCyclists under 18 years old must be accompanied by an adult registrant.Class 1 eBikes are permitted. Electric bike riders are responsible for providing a fully operational eBike, as classified by the state of Massachusetts, and must be prepared to handle mechanical repairs that SAG vehicles cannot accommodate.This event is rain or shine.  The Museum cannot refund registration fees.ParkingIf you live near the Concord Museum, we encourage you to ride your bike to the Museum on the day of the Ride. For those who need to drive in, please park in the Alcott Elementary School parking lot at 93 Laurel Street, or at the Concord District Court at 305 Walden Street. There is no parking available at the Concord Museum. Please contact [email protected] or 978.369.9763 with any questions.Generously sponsored by:Bib SponsorRest Stop SponsorsAfter-Ride Party SponsorsSponsorship Opportunities:The Concord Museum welcomes both corporate and in-kind sponsors for the Second Annual Paul Revere’s Bike Ride. Sponsorship levels range from $1,000 to $10,000, and include promotion through event materials and riders’ T shirts, recognition, tent space at the post-ride party, and more perks. For more information and in-kind sponsorship opportunities, please contact Allison Shilling at [email protected] or (978) 369-9763 ext. 238. Sponsorship contributions and donations are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. The Concord Antiquarian Society, operating as the Concord Museum, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our federal tax ID number is 04-104035. Paul Revere’s Bike Ride Sponsorship OpportunitiesDownload

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Emerson-Thoreau Amble

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. 1-mile walk, uneven and unpaved terrain, r......More

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. 1-mile walk, uneven and unpaved terrain, rain or shine. Meet at the Concord Museum.    In partnership with the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association.  $10 Members | $20 Non-Members. Includes same-day admission to the Concord Museum.  Register

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The Garden Tour

The Concord Museum Garden Tour June 5 – 6 | 10:00 am – 4:00 pmJoin us for a day of beauty, nature, and discovery as you visit six stunning gardens throughout Concord.In 2026, the Tour will offer a wide variety of garden styles and features, including decorative elements......More

The Concord Museum Garden Tour June 5 – 6 | 10:00 am – 4:00 pmJoin us for a day of beauty, nature, and discovery as you visit six stunning gardens throughout Concord.In 2026, the Tour will offer a wide variety of garden styles and features, including decorative elements and vegetable beds, manicured spaces and naturalistic plantings, native species and showstopper plantings. Each offers an approach to creating gardens that blend seamlessly with the surrounding landscape, complement the architectural features of the home, and offer delightful settings for everyday living. This year’s gardens also showcase expansive patios, immaculate pools and water features, hand-cut fieldstone walls, winding paths, and terraces.  All proceeds benefit the Museum’s vital school programs that serve over 15,500 K-12 students across the Commonwealth each year.      Get Tickets Become a member today to receive discounted pricing for Garden Tour tickets. Get your FREE ticket: volunteer at the 2026 Garden Tour. Sign up here. Ticketing and event details Ticketholders must pick up their program booklets at the Concord Museum before they begin to visit the gardens. The program booklets will contain garden addresses, parking information, and other details, and will be available for pickup on Friday, June 5, and Saturday, June 6, beginning at 9:00 am. Early pickup times will also be available, and will be announced by email to ticketholders. Although this is an event recommended for adults, children are welcome on the Garden Tour when accompanied and supervised by an adult at all times. Children under 12 are admitted for free. Tickets are required for visitors ages 12 and up. Strollers are not permitted on the Garden Tour because wheels can damage lawns and garden beds. Please plan to carry young children (in arms or in a soft carrier) if needed. If your family needs accommodation to participate comfortably, please contact the Museum in advance. No photography is allowed in any of the gardens. No pets are allowed in the gardens. No food or beverages are allowed in the gardens. Water is permitted. Thank you to our Premier Sponsors: Thank you to our Garden and Map Sponsors: Patron Sponsors: Contributor Sponsors: a Blade of GrassEvarts + McLean + Co – CompassKim Patenaude and Rory Fivek Real Estate GroupPeggy Dowcett – Coldwell BankerThe Pesce Network – DunkinSeasons Four, Inc. Friend Sponsors: Concord PrintingJane Rupley Landscape DesignKitchen OutfittersRussell’s Garden CenterVintages – Adventures in Wine Media Sponsors: Retail Sponsors:

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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 exhibition Revolutionary Legacies.  Free with Museum admission. Members visit free.

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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 resting place of some of the most well-known figures from April 19, 1775 including Emerson Cogswell, Colonel Barrett, and Captain David Brown.......More

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, 1775 including Emerson Cogswell, Colonel Barrett, and Captain David Brown. 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.  Register

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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 tour of the galleries. Explore Concord’s rich Black and Abolitionist histories through powerful stories, images, and objects from the Museum’s coll......More

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

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Juneteenth Family Performance

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 “Thin......More

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 Register

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Antislavery Walking Tour 

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. This tour includes a significant amount (over......More

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. 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.  Register

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From Concord and Lexington: New Perspective on the Revolution

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 D......More

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 Eyewitness to Revolution draws from the Concord Museum’s renowned collection Paul O’Shaughnessy, President of Lexington History Museums whose institution recently published Revolutionary Stories and historian and archaeologist Joel Bohy.  As part of the evening, the Concord Museum will present the Robert A. Gross Award for Advancing Concord’s History to Joel Bohy in recognition of his lifetime of work of researching April 19, 1775, that has deepened understanding and ability to accurately interpret this event for institutions like the Concord Museum and Lexington History Museum, and, in turn, the thousands of visitors and students we all serve.  In partnership with Lexington History Museums.  Members Free | $10 Non-Members | Free Virtual Register

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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 a gallery talk on with Museum staff on the Revolution and its legacy at 12pm.Visitors will: Enjoy free admission to see the original Paul Reve......More

Visitors can enjoy free admission to the Museum on the Fourth of July and enjoy special family activities and food trucks. Hear a gallery talk on with Museum staff on the Revolution and its legacy at 12pm.Visitors will: Enjoy free admission to see the original Paul Revere lantern and dozens of objects that witnessed the founding of our nation,Explore the new special exhibition, Revolutionary Legacies, Listen in on a gallery talk with museum staff, Join fun family activities and enjoy food trucks.

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Goodwin Band: Then Rain, Then Wind 

Goodwin will be performing their third studio release: “Then Rain, Then Wind.” Collaborating with poets across time and space, this album brings aged yet ever salient words to a new generation. Setting the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Rabindranath Tagore, Charles Baudelai......More

Goodwin will be performing their third studio release: “Then Rain, Then Wind.” Collaborating with poets across time and space, this album brings aged yet ever salient words to a new generation. Setting the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Rabindranath Tagore, Charles Baudelaire, Langston Hughes, and Li Qinghzhao to music, Goodwin has reached across the globe and through time to create a work that highlights the essential humanity that ties us all together. Join Michael, vocalist Emily Campagna, percussionist Yahuba 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 Register

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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 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......More

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

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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 Concord throughout his life?  Take a tour of the domestic side of Thoreau’s wholly human life visiting the homes where he lived and hearing the s......More

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 Concord throughout his life?  Take a tour of the domestic side of Thoreau’s wholly human 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.  Register

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