The Place She Called Home

Advance tickets are now available through August! Make your plans to visit the place she called home and be among the first visitors of 2026.

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Emily Dickinson daguerreotype portrait, showing the poet wearing a black dress and a ribbon on her neck

Welcome

The Homestead & The Evergreens

Visitors to the Emily Dickinson Museum explore the Homestead, where Dickinson was born, died, and did most of her writing, and The Evergreens, home of the poet’s brother, sister-in-law, and their three children. The Homestead, lived in by other families after Dickinson’s death, is in the process of being restored to its appearance during the poet’s writing years. The Evergreens was only ever lived in by Dickinsons or family heirs and its original 19th-century finishes remain intact. Dickinson’s life story and the story of her posthumous publication is uniquely entwined with these two houses and the three acres upon which they sit in Amherst.

Events & News

Logo for PHOSPHORESCENCE reading series featuring the Homestead glowing at night

Phosphorescence Contemporary Poetry Series
Thursday, July 16, 6pm ET

Phosphorescence July 2026 featured poets:
Rebecca Hart Olander, Jen Jabaily-Blackburn, and Sara Eddy
...
a man uses a flashlight to investigate the beams under the homestead roof

Press Release:
Construction Underway at Homestead (March 2026)

(3/30/2026) - Construction Underway: The Emily Dickinson Museum Replaces Roof and Begins Research Stage for Final Homestead Restoration...
Kimaya Diggs green headshot

Kimaya Diggs Concert
Amherst BID’s Summer Concert Series
Friday, August 7, 5:30pm ET

Free In-Person Program - Free concert by Kimaya Diggs in collaboration with the Amherst Business Improvement District...
Education school group in the Evergreens

K-12 Group Visits

Announcing a new program for Middle and High School students: The Power of Poetry. Spark your students' imagination by planning a field trip!...
Emily's handwriting on paper and envelope on a desk

Poem of the Day

A narrow Fellow in the Grass (1096)

A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Occasionally rides – 
You may have met him? Did you not
His notice instant is – 

The Grass divides as with a Comb – 
A spotted Shaft is seen,
And then it closes at your Feet
And opens further on – 

He likes a Boggy Acre – 
A Floor too cool for Corn – 
But when a Boy and Barefoot
I more than once at Noon 

Have passed I thought a Whip Lash
Unbraiding in the Sun
When stooping to secure it
It wrinkled And was gone – 

Several of Nature’s People
I know and they know me
I feel for them a transport
Of Cordiality

But never met this Fellow
Attended or alone
Without a tighter Breathing
And Zero at the Bone. 

Posted in Poems by Emily Dickinson, Uncategorized.

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.

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