2021 Season Passes Now Available!

Get a Season Pass to all 12 evening concerts in the 2021 Lowell Summer Music Series for Just $399, which is just $33 per show. In addition, you will save on ticket fees for individual shows.  There is no ticket fee for the Season Pass.   NEW:  Tickets are transferrable. You will receive 12 show […]

A Walk through Thoreau’s Concord

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

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 […]

July at the Concord Museum

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Virtual Summer Course - Decorative Arts Sampler   Do you love Antiques Roadshow and Flea Market Flip? Do you wish you knew more about the antiques and collectibles you encounter in museums, shops, and your own home?    The Concord Museum is here to help! Join us online for an interactive, five-week introduction to the decorative arts, filmed […]

Virtual Book Club: The Good Lord Bird

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Members-only program.  Become a member to participate!   The July Members' book club read is James McBride’s 2013 National Book Award Winner The Good Lord Bird.  A highly entertaining portrait of life on the Kansas-territory with John Brown and his army of abolitionists, Henry Shackleford, a formerly enslaved child sweeps us up in the action as he is […]

Classics Albums Live: Hotel California

Tickets Available Do you remember listening to an entire album? The thrill of dropping the needle on the greatest music ever recorded? Classic Albums Live does. Since 2003 they’ve been using the world’s greatest musicians to faithfully recreate these albums exactly the way they were recorded: note for note - cut for cut. No cheesy […]

Make a Mess: Paint Like Seurat

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Georges Seurat invented a special style of painting using lots of little dots, called pointillism. Explore some of Seurat’s masterpieces and then try your hand at creating you own work of art inspired by pointillism. The Make a Mess program series introduces STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) concepts through sensory-based hands-on experiences, imagination, […]

Eat Like a Bird

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Over time, bird beaks have evolved to be a variety of shapes and sizes, in order for different species to gather and eat the food they need to survive. Use a variety of common household tools (tweezers, tongs, clothespins, spoons, etc.) to simulate bird beaks and try “eating” like a bird!

Celebrate National Book Lovers Day

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

National Book Lovers Day is August 9, a day for those who can't live without books and reading. Join us as we create our very own books in preparation of this noteworthy day. What will you write about and illustrate? Why not write a tale about your culture, heritage and traditions then share your special story […]

Backyard and Beyond: Nature Textures

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Can you duplicate nature’s textures?  You can if you create a frottage!  Explore Discovery Woods as we search for and collect natural items with different textures, then create a frottage (or rubbing) of your found treasure. Inclement weather may result in changes to the program or cancellation.

Colin Hay & Band

Tickets Available   Now finding himself in the unprecedented place of having both ’80s fame and Indie credibility, singer-songwriter Colin Hay takes an epic, cinematic step forward with his newest release Fierce Mercy. An influential and celebrated frontman, Hay is most beloved for his intimate, confessional live shows, an experience he’s ready to bring back […]

Fairyborough

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Welcome to Fairyborough – the little city with a big future! Design, build, and explore a mysterious forest environment of fairy houses, gnome homes, and sprite skyscrapers, constructed completely out of natural materials and creativity. This changing and evolving temporary space will be put together by staff and visitors over the course of 6 days. This […]

JJ Grey & Mofro

Lowell Memorial Auditorium Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 50 E Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, United States

Tickets Available The J. J. Grey concert has been moved indoors due to the heat wave. The new venue is Lowell Memorial Auditorium at 50 East Merrimack Street. It is air conditioned and there is a lot of room for social distancing.   So please do not come down in the morning to place chairs […]