Concord Museum

The Concord Museum is a museum of local history located at 53 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, Massachusetts, United States,[1] and best known for its collection of artifacts from the American revolution[2][3] and from authors Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

[4] After a significant renovation completed in 2021, the museum also established a collection of artifacts focusing on enslaved people, indigenous people, and colonial women.

[5] Founded in 1886,[1] the museum's collections started around 1850.

Its most notable items and collections include: The museum's collection of 17th, 18th, and 19th-century decorative arts includes furniture, clocks, looking glasses, textiles, ceramics, and metalware.

Most displayed objects are arranged in the following period settings: Other museum collections include Native American stone tools, Puritan household goods, lyceum and cattle show posters, clocks and other machinery manufactured in Concord, and works by sculptor Daniel Chester French.