Concord Visitor Center has walking tours for all interests, ranging from Women of Concord to Indigenous People and African American People of Concord. Our newest tour is Beyond 1775: Concord and the Massachusetts National Guard.

Colors of Concord: The Grassy Plain features artworks created by Umbrella 2022-2023 Artist-in-Residence, Ponnapa Prakkamakul. Following a year of intensive outreach to underrepresented members of the Concord community, Prakkamakul has created a series of site-specific new artworks inspired by the people and places she discovered there. The work is on view in The Umbrella’s Main […]

For over 10,000 years the indigenous people of the land knew this area as Musketaquid. The land between the grassy rivers. This tour explores the history of the first people and how they lived in a land of abundance seeking to keep and foster balance with the natural world, their mother, who sustained them always. […]

Come learn about the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau and consider lessons about living deliberately that we can learn from his legacy. Take an inside look at the restored 1730s house listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse/Henry David Thoreau Birth House. Locally, it is also known as “Thoreau Farm.” […]

The Women of Concord tour gives insight into the women who lived in, or are connected to, this historic town, but who you may not have heard of. Women with significant contributions to the Revolutionary War, Transcendentalism, the fight to free Black people from slavery and to getting women the right to vote are highlighted, […]

Get out and enjoy the fall with these trail walks in the Concord/Carlisle area. Designed to get you moving while enjoying the scenery, each walk will be 3-4 miles, slightly slower than our fitness hikes. Come for the camaraderie of exploring the outdoors with like-minded people! Directions to the trailhead will be sent out each […]

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Girls Team

Virtual Reality. Chatbots. Deep Fakes. Do you feel like the technological world is moving too fast? Do you really know what any of these terms mean to you, never mind all of humanity? Take a breath and enjoy an in-person, real presentation about AI by Dave Wheeler from Therapy Gardens on emerging technologies. You might […]

Colors of Concord: The Grassy Plain features artworks created by Umbrella 2022-2023 Artist-in-Residence, Ponnapa Prakkamakul. Following a year of intensive outreach to underrepresented members of the Concord community, Prakkamakul has created a series of site-specific new artworks inspired by the people and places she discovered there. The work is on view in The Umbrella’s Main […]

Brooklyn based designer Marcia Patmos will be joining us for a two day trunk show where she will bring an extended collection of her beautiful cashmere knits and cotton womenswear.

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Come celebrate the release of the next single - "Plussed" - from their upcoming album "The Hunt"

Concord Ag Day is a once a year farmers’ market celebrating local agriculture organized by the Concord Agriculture Committee to showcase Concord farms and local produce. This unique market showcases the bounty of Concord’s many farm businesses at the height of the growing season. Ag Day 2023 will feature your favorite Concord Farmers selling their […]

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2023 Art Ramble Geo-Metric Art Ramble is an annual, temporary exhibition in the Hapgood Wright Town Forest in Concord, MA, a collaboration of The Umbrella Art Center and Concord’s Division of Natural Resources (CDNR). Following Leave No Trace principles, regional artists create site-specific artworks promoting appreciation of nature, installed along Fairyland Pond and parts of the historic Emerson-Thoreau Amble connecting […]

Learn about Concord’s African-American residents on this 90-minute walking tour. The tour will visit sites highlighting Concord’s history around enslavement, the first generation of self-emancipated African-Americans, and the growth of Abolitionism. We see how these families strived to support themselves on the land and in the town and worked to shape their own destinies as […]

Come learn about the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau and consider lessons about living deliberately that we can learn from his legacy. Take an inside look at the restored 1730s house listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse/Henry David Thoreau Birth House. Locally, it is also known as “Thoreau Farm.” […]

Brooklyn based designer Marcia Patmos will be joining us for a two day trunk show where she will bring an extended collection of her beautiful cashmere knits and cotton womenswear.

Join us for a free, fun, and interactive afternoon event for kids and adults! Try out instruments you’ve never even held before at the Concord Conservatory of Music’s Discovery Day Open House on Saturday, September 9th, from 1 – 3 pm. Experience our hands-on Instrument Exploration, which allows you to play various instruments in a […]

Come to The Umbrella for free family fun! Drop by any time during the two-hour time block to partake in a seasonal and creative craft led by one of our talented instructors! Open to all ages and abilities. Registration appreciated. Saturday, September 9 - back-to-school-themed craft! 2:00pm - 4:00pm Room: 222

We appreciate the silent stones, memorials, and buildings of the village. The tour will also trek up to the Hill Burying Ground home of both Puritan and Revolutionary dead, and then amble its way through scenic, wooded Sleepy Hollow, a classic example of the Garden Cemetary Movement of the 19th century which romanticized death. There […]

The World's A Stage Players, Concord Players' Shakespeare troupe, will present Richard II Saturdays and Sundays, September 9,10, 16 & 17 at 5:00 pm outdoors on the lawn of the Concord Free Public Library and Friday, September 15 at 7:00 pm indoors at 51 Walden Street. This lesser known, but beautifully poetic play, written around […]

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