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11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Wednesday - Sunday, March - December.
***Open Tuesday Dec. 27th through Sunday Dec 31st, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.***
Summer hours: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Wednesday - Sunday during June, July, and August
Closed January and February.
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| Purchase Tickets Now for the Dickinson Birthday Celebration December 10
You're Invited!
Celebrate Emily Dickinson's 181st birthday with secrets and surprises
"Just the Door ajar" --
Glimpses into The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
Birthday Party 5 to 7 p.m.
Valentine Hall, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
"Emily Dickinson -- Outlaw" by Jerome Charyn
Party with Dickinson-inspired sweets, savories, and toasts
Candlelight Soiree at the Dickinson Homestead 7:30 p.m.
Masquerade tour and birthday wishes for the "Queen Recluse"
and a tribute to Jerome Liebling
Selected photographs from The Dickinsons of Amherst
Birthday Party and Candlelight Soiree $125 per person
Birthday Party only $75 per person
All proceeds benefit the Emily Dickinson Museum.
All but $25 of your contribution is tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.
Details at www.EmilyDickinsonMuseum.org/birthday
For tickets and information, call 413-542-5311 or 413-542-5084
or e-mail info@emilydickinsonmuseum.org.
With thanks to our sponsors
 
   
  
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Happy Birthday at the Homestead
Stop by on December 10 to wish Emily Dickinson a happy birthday and enjoy a complimentary piece of coconut cake in the Tour Center between noon and 3:30 pm.
Guided tours will be offered on our regular schedule from 11 am to 4 pm and the usual admission fees will apply. For more birthday merriment, attend the celebration at Valentine Hall later in the afternoon (see above).
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Member Shopping Days Are Here
 Saturday and Sunday, December 3 and 4
Saturday and Sunday, December 10 and 11
Members of the Friends of the Emily Dickinson Museum receive a double-discount (20%) on purchases from the Museum Shop. Prepare for the holidays or any celebration with poetry, books, and unique gifts related to Emily Dickinson. |
| A Holiday Gift Box from the Homestead
Emily Dickinson sent poetry and cakes to her friends. You can do the same!
Brighten the holidays for a friend with a holiday gift box from the Emily Dickinson Museum. The special  order gift box ($59.95) includes:
- a starter collection of Dickinson's poetry
- Dickinson's famous black cake for two, prepared exclusively for the Museum by The Black Sheep Deli and Bakery
- "The Profile of the Poet as a Cook" featuring recipes (revised for the modern kitchen) of Emily Dickinson and her friends
- a pound of "Sue's Brew," a strong roast blend from Dean's Beans Organic Coffee
- "Garrison Keillor and Emily Dickinson: Face to Face," a DVD of Keillor's 2010 benefit performance for the Emily Dickinson Museum
To order, visit the Museum Shop webpage and download a gift box order form. The price $59.95 includes USPS shipping and handling. Orders placed by December 15 will be shipped December 17. Orders placed between December 16 and 20 may be picked up at the Emily Dickinson Museum. |
| "I'm Nobody! Who are You?"
Just in time for the holidays . . . a new Emily Dickinson t-shirt! The shirt was created in response to comments from teachers in our summer professional development program who wanted a new Dickinson look. So we invited them to submit ideas to add to our shop inventory.
Lisa Byerly Curtis, who teaches at Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park, New York, submitted the winning concept. On the shirt, Emily Dickinson peeks out over the first two lines to her well-known poem, "I'm Nobody." On the back, Dickinson winks over the words "Then there's a pair of us."
 
Penny Michalak, a graphic designer who has worked with the Museum on several recent projects, developed Lisa's idea into the t-shirt pictured here. Honorable mentions go to Lynette Gottlieb of Ashbrook Independent School in Corvallis, Oregon, and Kevin Wall of Etowah High School in Woodstock, Georgia.
The t-shirt is $19.95 and is available in the following styles, colors, and sizes:
Unisex --slate blue, cedar (red)
"Ladies-style"-old gold, blue iris
Kids' size-river blue
Sizes: S, M, L, X-L, XX-L
Be the first on your block to sport a new Emily Dickinson look. Visit the Museum Shop webpage to order. |
| New Dickinson Resources Available
Amherst College Archives and Special Collections has just launched a new web page introducing "Emily Dickinson at Amherst College." The new page assembles user-friendly information about the College's impressive collections of Emily Dickinson manuscripts, Dickinson-related materials, works by and about Dickinson, and more. To visit, go to www.amherst.edu/mm/278804.
The Houghton Library at Harvard University set a goal of digitizing its 500-volume collection of Dickinson family books. For an update about the progress of this project, please read the Modern Books and Manuscripts blog. Emily Dickinson valued the works of William Shakespeare as the best in the English language. The Houghton Library has now completed digitization of the Dickinsons' eight-volume 1853 edition of The comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere (sic). |
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Become a Friend: "My Friends are my Estate"
Join us in preserving Emily Dickinson's vibrant poetic and material legacy by becoming a Friend of the Emily Dickinson Museum. $65 annual membership dues provide free admission, program and shop discounts, complimentary passes, and other valuable benefits.
Membership also makes a wonderful gift! Click here to JOIN ONLINE NOW!
Please also consider making a gift to the Annual Fund. |
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Keep in Touch: Follow the Museum on Facebook and Twitter!
The Museum has created a presence on Facebook and Twitter to share news, events, and information about Emily Dickinson with the online commmunity.
Be sure to like our Facebook fan page and follow us on Twitter to stay up to date with our latest happenings. July and August will feature daily updates from the life and literature of Emily Dickinson, including extracts from poems and letters as well as historical tidbits.
 
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| About the Museum
 The Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and The Evergreens is dedicated to educating diverse audiences about the poet's life, family, creative work, times, and enduring relevance, and to preserving and interpreting the Homestead and The Evergreens as historical resources for the benefit of scholars and the general public.
The Emily Dickinson Museum is owned by the Trustees of Amherst College and overseen by a separate Board of Governors. The Museum is responsible for raising its own operating and capital funds.
The Emily Dickinson Museum is a member of Museums10, a collaboration of ten museums linked to the Five Colleges in the Pioneer Valley--Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. |
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