The Place She Called Home

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Emily Dickinson daguerreotype portrait, showing the poet wearing a black dress and a ribbon on her neck

Welcome

The Homestead & The Evergreens

Visitors to the Emily Dickinson Museum explore the Homestead, where Dickinson was born, died, and did most of her writing, and The Evergreens, home of the poet’s brother, sister-in-law, and their three children. The Homestead, lived in by other families after Dickinson’s death, is in the process of being restored to its appearance during the poet’s writing years. The Evergreens was only ever lived in by Dickinsons or family heirs and its original 19th-century finishes remain intact. Dickinson’s life story and the story of her posthumous publication is uniquely entwined with these two houses and the three acres upon which they sit in Amherst.

Events & News

graphic for exhibition The Preferred Flower — paintings by Mabel Loomis Todd feauturing a variety of painted flowers from Todd's works

Opening Reception
The Preferred Flower —
Tuesday, November 10, 5:30pm

(Opening Reception) a special evening honoring the joint exhibition opening of The Preferred Flower — Paintings by Mabel Loomis Todd!...
three candles sit on the mantle in The Evergreens

Emily Dickinson 196th Birthday Open House
Sat., Dec. 12, 1-4:45pm ET, 2026

FREE In-Person Program - You are cordially invited to the Emily Dickinson Museum’s in-person celebration of the poet’s 196th birthday!...
graphic for exhibition The Preferred Flower — paintings by Mabel Loomis Todd feauturing a variety of painted flowers from Todd's works

The Preferred Flower —
Paintings by Mabel Loomis Todd

(In-Person Painting Exhibition) an exhibition illuminating the expressive botanical paintings of Mabel Loomis Todd (1856–1932) in collaboration with the Amherst History Center...
two people are looking into a square cutout carved out of the plaster of the walls at the Dickinson Homestead

Behind the Scenes Tour:
Restoring Dickinson’s Kitchen, Pantry, and More!

Private tour - During this once-in-a-lifetime program, witness the discoveries emerging within the walls of Emily Dickinson's 1813 home as the Museum enters the final phase of Homestead restoration...
Emily's handwriting on paper and envelope on a desk

Poem of the Day

A narrow Fellow in the Grass (1096)

A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Occasionally rides – 
You may have met him? Did you not
His notice instant is – 

The Grass divides as with a Comb – 
A spotted Shaft is seen,
And then it closes at your Feet
And opens further on – 

He likes a Boggy Acre – 
A Floor too cool for Corn – 
But when a Boy and Barefoot
I more than once at Noon 

Have passed I thought a Whip Lash
Unbraiding in the Sun
When stooping to secure it
It wrinkled And was gone – 

Several of Nature’s People
I know and they know me
I feel for them a transport
Of Cordiality

But never met this Fellow
Attended or alone
Without a tighter Breathing
And Zero at the Bone. 

Posted in Poems by Emily Dickinson, Uncategorized.

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.

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