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SACRED SPACE: THE SHAKER MUSEUM’S NEW FUTURE OFFERS OPPORTUNITIES
In July, I joined a small group for a tour of the collection of the Shaker Museum in Old Chatham, New York, where we meandered among metal shelves filled with thousands of wooden boxes and benches, baskets and tables, brooms and bureaus, chests and ladder-back chairs, all meticulously catalogued and digitized. Despite the obvious care […]
SHAKER MUSEUM PRESENTS “SHADES OF SHAKER” AT THE KINDERHOOK KNITTING MILL
CHATHAM, NEW YORK, November 21, 2022 – Shaker Museum, which stewards the most comprehensive collection of Shaker material culture and archives, announced today that its latest exhibition – Shades of Shaker – will debut Saturday, December 3rd at the Kinderhook Knitting Mill in Kinderhook, NY. With more than 20 historical objects on display, the new […]
Granary, North Family, Mount Lebanon
Across from Shaker Museum’s Old Chatham campus is a beautiful field of rye grass. The season when farmers are moving from the summer’s haying into the fall’s harvest of grains is fast coming upon us. The kernels on the spikes of rye are filling out and soon will turn the color that signals the right […]
