The Emily Dickinson Museum includes The Homestead, where poet Emily Dickinson was born and lived most of her life, and The Evergreens, home of the poet’s brother and his family. The two houses share three acres of the original Dickinson property in the center of Amherst, Massachusetts.
The Emily Dickinson Museum is open from March through December. Our current hours are Wednesday through Monday, 10 am to 5 pm. The Museum is closed on Tuesday and will be closed on Thursday, July 4. To plan your visit, click here for details about admission fees, tours, and other schedule information for 2013.We look forward to your visit!
The Emily Dickinson Museum’s "Grounds of Memory" landscape audio tour is now available as a cell phone tour! Details» The tour may also be accessed via the web at http://myoncell.mobi/dickinsonlandscape.
Through a joint project of the Emily Dickinson Museum and Amherst College's Mead Art Museum, the art collection of The Evergreens - the best-preserved visual environment of the famously reclusive poet - is now available on-line through the Five College Art Museums/Historic Deerfield Collection Database. Details»
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Thank you to our 2012 Tell it Slant Award Sponsors:
It would not know if it were spurned,
This gallant little flower -
How therefore safe to be a flower
If one would tamper there.
To enter, it would not aspire -
But may it not despair
That it is not a Cavalier,
To dare and perish there?
Fr 1615 Reprinted by permission.
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