The Emily Dickinson Museum

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The Emily Dickinson Museum:
The Homestead and The Evergreens
Plan your visit to the place she called home.
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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. The Museum

was created in 2003 when the two houses merged under the ownership of Amherst College. Its mission is to educate diverse audiences about Emily Dickinson’s life, family, creative work, times, and enduring relevance, and to preserve and interpret the Homestead and The Evergreens as historical resources for the benefit of scholars and the general public.

09/01/2026

The Well opon the Brook
Were foolish to depend -
Let Brooks - renew of Brooks -
But Wells - of failless Ground!

08/31/2026

I am afraid to own a Body -
I am afraid to own a Soul -
Profound - precarious Property -
Possession, not optional -

Double Estate, entailed at pleasure
Opon an unsuspecting Heir -
Duke in a moment of Deathlessness
And God, for a Frontier.

In loving memory, Lavinia Norcross Dickinson.On this day, August 31, 1899, the cherished sister of the poet passed away ...
08/31/2026

In loving memory, Lavinia Norcross Dickinson.

On this day, August 31, 1899, the cherished sister of the poet passed away at age 66 of an enlarged heart.

08/30/2026

Myself can read the Telegrams
A Letter chief to me
The Stock’s advance and retrogade
And what the Markets say

The Weather - how the Rains
In Counties have begun.
’Tis News as null as nothing,
But sweeter so, than none.

08/29/2026

Ended, ere it begun -
The Title was scarcely told
When the Preface perished from Consciousness
The story, unrevealed -

Had it been mine, to print!
Had it been your’s, to read!
That it was not our privilege
The interdict of God -

08/28/2026

What Twigs We held by -
Oh the View
When Life’s swift River striven through
We pause before a further plunge
To take Momentum -
As the Fringe

Opon a former Garment shows
The Garment cast,
Our Props disclose
So scant, so eminently small
Of Might to help, so pitiful
To sink, if We had labored, fond
The diligence were not more blind

How scant, by everlasting Light
The Discs that satisfied our sight -
How dimmer than a Saturn’s Bar
The Things esteemed, for Things that are!

OPEN MIC NIGHT! 📖🎙️Have you ever dreamed of reading your poetry at Emily Dickinson's Homestead? Here's your chance! The ...
08/27/2026

OPEN MIC NIGHT! 📖🎙️
Have you ever dreamed of reading your poetry at Emily Dickinson's Homestead? Here's your chance! The Open Mic lottery is now open!

Open mic sign-ups will be handled in advance via a Google Form, and selected readers will be notified. Act fast! All readers must be available to read in-person and must register for the Festival to be considered. Learn more:
https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/open-mic-tis-2026/

08/27/2026

We learn in the Retreating
How vast an one
Was recently among us -
A Perished Sun

Endear in the departure
How doubly more
Than all the Golden presence
It was - before -

Happy National Dog Day!Did you know Emily Dickinson had a Newfoundland named Carlo? The name comes from one of the poet'...
08/26/2026

Happy National Dog Day!
Did you know Emily Dickinson had a Newfoundland named Carlo? The name comes from one of the poet's favorite novels, Jane Eyre.

“You ask of my Companions. Hills – sir – and the Sundown, and a Dog large as myself, that my Father bought me -” Dickinson to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (L261).

Photo: various Carlo items available in our shop!

08/26/2026

Revolution is the Pod
Systems rattle from
When the Winds of Will are stirred
Excellent is Bloom

But except it’s Russet Base
Every Summer be
The entomber of itself,
So of Liberty -

Left inactive on the Stalk
All it’s Purple fled
Revolution shakes it for
Test if it be dead -

Address

220 Main Street
Amherst, MA
01002

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

Telephone

+14135428161

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