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Featured Mount Lebanon chooses Studio Analogous to design online collections website

Dec 5, 2017

Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon chooses Studio Analogous to design online collections website

In 2016 Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon received a $750,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to fund a wide-ranging project to bring its collections online. The Museum has retained the New York City based web design firm Studio Analogous to create a website that highlights the Museum’s unparalleled collection of Shaker material culture, including objects, publications, and archives.

Mount Lebanon chooses Studio Analogous to design online collections website

Mount Lebanon chooses Studio Analogous to design online collections website

Mount Lebanon chooses Studio Analogous to design online collections website

Sharon Koomler

Collections Manager

Sharon Duane Koomler is a Shaker scholar and traditional letterpress printer living in upstate New York. She has academic degrees in American Folklore from Indiana University and Western Kentucky University. Sharon has worked at Shaker Museums from Kentucky to New Hampshire as an educator, curator, consultant, and director. She has written and published on Shaker material culture and spirituality, and lectured widely on Shaker art, life, and belief. Sharon has a particular interest in the under-researched social aspects of Shaker life and ways in which Shakers practiced inclusion and intentionality.