The Place She Called Home
Tickets are now available from through August. Make your plans to visit the place she called home.
Open: Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-5pm ET
The carriage house and The Evergreens are opening! As of May 1st, tickets to the Emily Dickinson Museum will include tours of both the Homestead and The Evergreens.
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Welcome
The Homestead & The Evergreens
The Emily Dickinson Museum comprises two historic houses in the center of Amherst, Massachusetts associated with the poet Emily Dickinson and members of her family during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Homestead was the birthplace and home of the poet Emily Dickinson.
The Evergreens, next door, was home to her brother Austin, his wife Susan, and their three children. Learn more about the Museum.
Events & News
Poetry Walk 2025Saturday, May 1010am-12pm ET
K-12 Group Visits
Press Release:Carriage House Opening
Phosphorescence Contemporary Poetry SeriesThursday, May 15, 6pm ET
Joy Ladin, Niina Pollari, and Joan Larkin...

Poem of the Day
I heard a Fly buzz when I died (591)
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air –
Between the Heaves of Storm –
The Eyes around – had wrung them dry –
And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset – when the King
Be witnessed – in the Room –
I willed my Keepsakes – Signed away
What portions of me be
Assignable – and then it was
There interposed a Fly –
With Blue – uncertain stumbling Buzz –
Between the light – and me –
And then the Windows failed – and then
I could not see to see –
Education
Digital Dickinson
The Emily Dickinson Museum welcomes inquiries from researchers and strives to support their work.
Research at the Museum can be useful not only to Dickinson scholars but also to researchers interested in nineteenth-century material culture, social and cultural trends, domestic life, architecture, and decorative arts.
The Museum does not own Dickinson manuscripts or family papers but works closely with the institutions that do. The two major repositories for Emily Dickinson’s manuscripts and family papers are Amherst College and Harvard University. Additional repositories exist at the Jones Library in Amherst, MA, Mt. Holyoke College, Yale, and the Boston Public Library.
To learn more about digital and electronic Dickinson research resources, visit these institutional archives:

MISSION STATEMENT
It is the Museum’s mission to spark the imagination by amplifying Emily Dickinson’s revolutionary poetic voice from the place she called home.