The Emily Dickinson Museum

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The Emily Dickinson Museum:
The Homestead and The Evergreens
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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.

05/31/2026

A Moth the hue of this
Haunts Candles in Brazil -
Nature’s Experience would make
Our Reddest Second pale -

Nature is fond, I sometimes think,
Of Trinkets, as a Girl.

05/30/2026

I cannot buy it - ’tis not sold -
There is no other in the World -
Mine was the only one

I was so happy I forgot
To shut the Door And it went out
And I am all alone -

If I could find it Anywhere
I would not mind the journey there
Though it took all my store

But just to look it in the Eye -
“Did’st thou”? “Thou did’st not mean”, to say,
Then, turn my Face away.

05/29/2026

Always Mine!
No more Vacation!
Term of Light, this Day begun!
Failless as the fair rotation
Of the Seasons and the Sun -

Old the Grace, but new the Subjects -
Old, indeed, the East,
Yet opon His Purple Programme
Every Dawn, is first.

05/28/2026

So set it’s Sun in Thee
What Day be dark to me
What Distance far
So I the Ships may see
That touch how seldomly
Thy Shore?

Tattoo visits the source of inspiration 🪑✍️Thanks to for sharing this photo! Share your photos by tagging the Museum.
05/28/2026

Tattoo visits the source of inspiration 🪑✍️

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05/27/2026

Impossibility, like Wine
Exhilirates the Man
Who tastes it; Possibility
Is flavorless - Combine

A Chance’s faintest tincture
And in the former Dram
Enchantment makes ingredient
As certainly as Doom -

The Props assist the HouseUntil the House is builtAnd then the Props withdrawAnd adequate, erect,The House support itsel...
05/27/2026

The Props assist the House
Until the House is built
And then the Props withdraw
And adequate, erect,
The House support itself

The Homestead is getting a new cedar shingle roof!
Learn more about our current construction projects:
emilydickinsonmuseum.org/press-release-hometead-construction-2026

My Garden - like the Beach -Denotes there be - a Sea -That’s Summer -Such as These - the PearlsShe fetches - such as MeF...
05/26/2026

My Garden - like the Beach -
Denotes there be - a Sea -
That’s Summer -
Such as These - the Pearls
She fetches - such as Me
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Dickinson's garden is looking glorious — thanks to the help of our Garden Days volunteers. Come see it for yourself!

05/26/2026

Those who have been in the Grave the longest -
Those who begin Today -
Equally perish from our Practise -
Death is the other way -

Foot of the Bold did least attempt it -
It is the White Exploit -
Once to achieve, annuls the power
Once to communicate -

What's your interpretation of this poem?It feels a shame to be Alive -When Men so brave - are dead -One envies the Disti...
05/25/2026

What's your interpretation of this poem?

It feels a shame to be Alive -
When Men so brave - are dead -
One envies the Distinguished Dust -
Permitted - such a Head -

The Stone - that tells defending Whom
This Spartan put away
What little of Him we - possessed
In Pawn for Liberty -

The price is great - Sublimely paid -
Do we deserve - a Thing -
That lives - like Dollars - must be piled
Before we may obtain?

Are we that wait - sufficient worth -
That such Enormous Pearl
As life - dissolved be - for Us -
In Battle’s - horrid Bowl?

It may be - a Renown to live -
I think the Men who die -
Those unsustained - Saviors -
Present Divinity -

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Address

280 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

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+14135428161

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