Advance tickets are now available through June! Make your plans to visit the place she called home and be among the first visitors of 2026.

Please note, The Emily Dickinson Museum will be replacing the aging Homestead roof with new cedar shingles and is beginning the research phase for the final Homestead restoration this spring. The Museum will remain open. Accessible parking and pedestrian routes will be clearly marked with barriers and signage for visitor safety. Please excuse our exterior appearance during this important project. Learn more about these projects in our press release.

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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.

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a man uses a flashlight to investigate the beams under the homestead roof

Press Release:
Construction Underway at Homestead (March 2026)

(3/30/2026) - Construction Underway: The Emily Dickinson Museum Replaces Roof and Begins Research Stage for Final Homestead Restoration...

Poetry Walk 2026
Saturday, May 16
10am-12pm ET

IN-PERSON PROGRAM - An engaging poetry walk through Amherst, the town she called “paradise”...

a model dressed as Dickinson with her back to the camera sitting at her writing desk

‘Revolution is the Pod’:
Emily Dickinson’s American Poetry
NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Program
July 19-24 or 26-31, 2026

Designed for K-12 educators, this workshop will examine Dickinson’s poetry in light of the rhetoric of her day, as Americans grappled with a national identity one century on from the American Revolution...

Education school group in the Evergreens

K-12 Group Visits

Announcing a new program for Middle and High School students: The Power of Poetry. Spark your students' imagination by planning a field trip!...

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 –

Posted in Poems by Emily 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: