Emily Dickinson Museum
The Homestead and Evergreens use rooms, manuscripts, family relationships, plants, and material traces to place Dickinson’s writing inside a complicated household world.
Artwork inspired by Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts
The Homestead and Evergreens use rooms, manuscripts, family relationships, plants, and material traces to place Dickinson’s writing inside a complicated household world. The museum’s two houses reveal different forms of intimacy. Dickinson’s bedroom and garden habits shape the Homestead, while the Evergreens preserves her brother Austin’s family life, art, scandal, and the later editorial history that carried poems into public view.
Entry is by timed guided tour, and not every tour includes both houses in the same way. Reserve ahead, expect stairs and limited seating, and walk the grounds slowly enough to connect plants with language. Manuscripts on display rotate for conservation.
- Homes
- Homestead and Evergreens
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Collection
- Family objects and literary archives
Quick guide
- Reserve the right tour
- House coverage differs by ticket.
- Listen for the household
- Writing depended on family and labor.
Know before you go
- Reserve the right tour
- House coverage differs by ticket.
- Listen for the household
- Writing depended on family and labor.
- Walk the garden
- Plants recur as close observational evidence.
- Question publication
- Posthumous editing changed the poems.
Good to know
Interior capacity is small and upper floors require stairs. The museum cannot display original manuscripts continuously, and tour content changes with preservation work.
Notice these
- Dickinson bedroom
- Evergreens interiors
- Historic garden