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Be Our Guest Admission Free Sunday Afternoons

Presented by Concord Museum at Concord Museum

January 9-January 23, 2011

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Winter Sunday afternoons are the perfect opportunity to come to the Concord Museum. Visit for the first time or revisit favorite galleries, including the special exhibition, "A little scrap for recollection’s sake: Quilts from the Concord Museum" – all free on the following Sunday afternoons: Sunday, January 9th from 1:00 – 4:00, Sunday, January 16th from 1:00 – 4:00 and Sunday, January 23rd from 1:00 – 4:00.

With one of the oldest collections of Americana in the country, the 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, "A little scrap for recollection’s sake: Quilts from the Concord Museum." Each quilt in this exhibition of a dozen from the Museum’s collection and two from Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House has a story to tell about the makers, the communities they lived in and the era in which the quilt was made.

Don’t forget a stop in the Museum Shop that features gifts and books for young and old, as well as reproductions and adaptations of American decorative arts.

The Concord Museum is located in historic Concord, Massachusetts at the intersection of Lexington Road and Cambridge Turnpike. The Museum is wheelchair accessible and has ample free parking on Cambridge Turnpike. For further information contact the Concord Museum at (978) 369-9609 (Taped information); (978) 369-9763; E-mail: cm1@concordmuseum.org; Web site: www.concordmuseum.org