Past Events

Saturday, May 16, 2015 Friends’ Day Time: 11:30 am Location: Amherst College Alumni House, 75 Churchill Street For Museum members Emily Dickinson Poetry Walk Time:  1 pm  Location:  Begins at the Emily Dickinson Museum Fee: Free...

Award Ceremony Honoring Ken Burns DATE: Monday, April 13 TIME: 7:30 pm (Doors will open at 7:00 pm) LOCATION: Kirby Theater, Amherst College COST: Free...

Date: April 2, 2015 Time: 5-8 pm Location: The Homestead Fee: Free Starting on Thursday, April 2, the Emily Dickinson Museum will be joining the monthly Amherst Art Walk. The Art Walk is held on the first Thursday of every month from 5 to 8 pm, with participating venues hosting gallery openings, concerts, lectures, and other...

DATE: March 8, 2015 TIME: 3 pm LOCATION: Amherst Woman’s Club, 35 Triangle Street, Amherst, MA COST: Free The Emily Dickinson Museum and the Amherst Woman’s Club are pleased to welcome novelist and screenwriter William Nicholson for a conversation about his new novel, Amherst,on Sunday, March 8, at 3 pm. Nicholson will be joined in the...

DATE: February 5, 2015 TIME: 7 pm LOCATION: Amherst Regional High School, 21 Mattoon Street, Amherst, MA COST: Free The Emily Dickinson Museum is pleased to present “In my native Town,” a conversation between 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winner Annie Baker and 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist  Madeleine George on Thursday, February 5, at 7...

Thursday, October 4 through Saturday, October 6, 2018  “A unique, phenomenal, and deeply treasured experience.” – Len Berkman, Smith College Professor of Theater It took eight years of correspondence before Thomas Wentworth Higginson arrived in Amherst to meet his elusive advisee, Emily Dickinson. Before You Became Improbable reimagines the day of that meeting, offering audience members an...

Monday, October 1, 2018 6:30PM at the Emily Dickinson Museum View Emily Dickinson’s world through the eyes of an archaeologist during this presentation at the Museum. Faculty and members of the University of Massachusetts Amherst archaeological field school will present findings from their work on the grounds of the Emily Dickinson Museum in the summer...

September 6, 2018 The Emily Dickinson Museum participates in Amherst Arts Night Plus on first Thursdays each month. Free and open to all!  Learn more  at www.EmilyDickinsonMuseum.org/events. Each month enjoy the following: 5 to 8 pm: Pop-up contemporary art exhibit in the Homestead from  5 to 6 pm: Open mic signups for poets, writers, performers of any kind 6 pm: Open...

Friday, August 24, 2018 What to Expect during Your Visit On Free Fun Friday, sponsored by the Highland Street Foundation, you can enjoy self-guided tours and more at the Emily Dickinson Museum from 10 am to 5 pm. Free Fun Fridays runs June through August with a schedule of participating organizations. Find out more here: http://www.highlandstreet.org/programs/free-fun-fridays  ...

Sunday, August 5 from 10AM to 12PM Bees are Black – with Gilt Surcingles – Buccaneers of Buzz –  Ride abroad in ostentation And subsist on Fuzz –   (Fr1426) Families are welcome at this celebration of all things pollination at the Emily Dickinson Museum! Did you know Dickinson wrote around 100 poems about bees? She was...

August 2, 2018 The Emily Dickinson Museum participates in Amherst Arts Night Plus on first Thursdays each month. Free and open to all!  Learn more  at www.EmilyDickinsonMuseum.org/events. Each month enjoy the following: 5 to 8 pm: Pop-up contemporary art exhibit in the Homestead from  5 to 6 pm: Open mic signups for poets, writers, performers of any kind 6 pm: Open...

July 5, 2018 The Emily Dickinson Museum participates in Amherst Arts Night Plus on first Thursdays each month. Free and open to all! Learn more  at www.EmilyDickinsonMuseum.org/events. Each month enjoy the following: 5 to 8 pm: Pop-up contemporary art exhibit in the Homestead from 5 to 6 pm: Open mic signups for poets, writers, performers of any kind 6 pm: Open...

Saturday, July 14, 2018 Time: 1-4 p.m. Location: Emily Dickinson Museum lawn Fee: $5 for families, Museum Friends are FREE Additional activity fees are noted below.  On Saturday, July 14, the Emily Dickinson Museum will present its annual 19th Century Children’s Circus from 1 to 4 pm on the Emily Dickinson Museum lawn. Especially perfect...

In this workshop for children ages 9-12, participants will experience Emily Dickinson’s world from a writer’s point of view...

The Amherst Poetry Festival celebrates the literary legacy and contemporary creativity of the Pioneer Valley and beyond...