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
It feels a shame to be AliveDickinson and the Civil WarWeds., October 16, 6:30pm ET
Phosphorescence Contemporary Poetry SeriesThursday, October 17, 6pm ET
Stephanie Choi, Saba Keramati, and Samyak Shertok...
Reconstruction of The Evergreens Carriage House
Studio Sessions
Poem of the Day
The Angle of a Landscape (578)
The Angle of a Landscape –
That every time I wake –
Between my Curtain and the Wall
Opon an ample Crack –
Like a Venetian – waiting –
Accosts my open eye –
Is just a Bough of Apples –
Held slanting, in the Sky –
The Pattern of a Chimney –
The Forehead of a Hill –
Sometimes – a Vane’s Forefinger –
But that’s – Occasional –
The Seasons – shift – my Picture –
Opon my Emerald Bough,
I wake – to find no – Emeralds –
Then – Diamonds – which the Snow
From Polar Caskets – fetched me –
The Chimney – and the Hill –
And just the Steeple’s finger –
These – never stir at all –
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.