Events

Join us in lighting the first set of bulbs on the VO250 arch to represent hours of volunteer service across our community since April 1. Friday, Sept. 12, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Live music, Mo's ice cream truck, and more!  

Lexington Knights of Columbus sponsors the third annual fundraiser - K'Night at the Races. This family-friendly event is a fundraiser for local, underserved charities based on a Horse Racing Theme. You can be the jockey to guide the "lifesize" wooden horses around the race track. Tickets are $25, which includes general admission, dinner and dessert. […]

The second annual Bikeway Block Party, on Sunday, Sept 14. from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., is a vibrant outdoor festival all along the Minuteman Bikeway with a wide variety of interactive activities and musical performances, including dancing, yoga, arts and crafts, and more! Anyone can participate and it's all free! Park locations along the […]

“Do not neglect your music,” Thomas Jefferson wrote his daughter. “It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.” Works that would have been heard in 1775 across four capital cities. Composers include Billings, Arne, JC Bach, Barsanti, Cervetto, Baltzar, Lanzetti, Haydn and Mozart. With Carly DeFranco, soprano; Susanna Ogata, […]

Best known for his iconic painting Washington Crossing the Delaware, German-American artist Emanuel Leutze also painted other scenes of the American Revolution. One of these, The News of Lexington (1852), portrays local townsfolk receiving word of the battle that launched the Revolution. Recently conserved with support from the Wyeth Foundation of American Art, the painting […]

Local artist Kit Collins has been hard at work all summer beautifying the columns behind the Depot into a colorful mural of Lexington’s history, past and present. Join LHM and the town for a ribbon cutting and special discussion with the artist to discover the stories represented in the art! Free!

Join us for an evening with Heather Clark as she presents an overview of her new novel "The Scrapbook" and shares photos from her grandfather's wartime scrapbook and of her research trip to Germany (Dachau, Munich, Berchtesgaden) in the summer of 2023. A Q&A will follow. "The Scrapbook" is a novel of love and war […]

Lexington History Museums’ special exhibition Swept Up in Revolution at Buckman Tavern follows the lives of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances. How did a war for independence break out in a sleepy country town, and what were the consequences for the survivors once the smoke cleared? Join Lexington History Museums’ curator Jesse Hilton for […]

Visit over three centuries of Lexington's past on a walking tour of the historic Old Burying Ground. Beautiful gravestone artwork - from skulls and crossbones to willow trees and urns - reveals how our ancestors grappled with the concept of death. Discover how mortuary art has changed over time, and meet some of Lexington's most […]

Drop in to meet Historical Society guide and musician Darlene Wigton as she demonstrates 18th-century guitar music. You can even learn a song and join in! Included with museum admission.

Kids and families, join Munroe Center for the Arts at Revival Cafe for a free, window art-making activity, on Sunday, Sept. 21, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. We'll meet outdoors at tables in front of the cafe on Massachusetts Ave., to cut colorful shapes to create a window mosaic design. This kid-created, community art will […]