Timed Tickets Required
Admission to the Museum includes a tour of the Homestead with timed entry. Tickets to visit the Museum are available through December. Advance tickets strongly recommended.
Please note: The Evergreens is closed through fall 2024 due to construction of the nearby Carriage House and will reopen in spring 2025. More information about this momentous project is available here.
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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
Digital DickinsonThe Museum’s CollectionWednesday, December 18, 6:30pm ET
Sweet Countrymen — Judge Tenderly of MeA Community Poetry HourTuesday, Nov. 5, 3pm ET
Mild Nights!At the Emily Dickinson Museum
Emily Dickinson 194th Birthday Open HouseSat., Dec. 7, 1-4:30pm ET
Poem of the Day
Further in Summer than the Birds (895)
Further in Summer than the Birds –
Pathetic from the Grass –
A minor Nation celebrates
It’s unobtrusive Mass.
No Ordinance be seen –
So gradual the Grace
A gentle Custom it becomes –
Enlarging Loneliness –
Antiquest felt at Noon –
When August burning low
Arise this spectral Canticle
Repose to typify –
Remit as yet no Grace –
No furrow on the Glow,
But a Druidic Difference
Enhances Nature now –
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.