Concord Museum

For art museum, see Concord Art Association.
The Concord Museum.
powder horn and gun in the Concord Museum

The Concord Museum is a museum of local history located at 200 Lexington Road, Concord, Massachusetts, United States, and best known for its collection of artifacts from authors Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. It is open daily except major holidays; an admission fee is charged.

Founded in 1886, the museum's collections started around 1850. Few collections of early Americana are as old or well documented. 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.

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Coordinates: 42°27′27.7″N 71°20′31.7″W / 42.457694°N 71.342139°W / 42.457694; -71.342139

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