Emily Dickinson Museum

The Emily Dickinson Museum is an international destination devoted to celebrating Dickinsons life and work by preserving and interpreting her family homestead and by bringing alive her startling poetic voice. The Homestead and The Evergreens are unique in their associations with Dickinson. This is the place where she composed 1,800 of the greatest poems in the English language, poetry that has elevated her to the first rank among poets worldwide. The Museum creates a variety of memorable ways to experience Dickinsons historical and literary life and to appreciate her legacy. The spaces in the buildings and on the grounds, and the material life they contain, propel our visitors into Dickinsons social, cultural, and familial world. Her poetry helps them transcend, as she did, the constraints of the physical world. Emily Dickinson deserves excellence in our operations, educational outreach, innovative programming, and stewardship of the buildings, grounds, and collections. And that...