The Great Stone Barn
Built, Burned, and Beyond
150 Years of America's Largest Stone Barn
Built in 1859 at Mount Lebanon Shaker Village
Limited Engagement
Exhibition
June 13-28. North Family
Granary, Mount Lebanon Shaker Village.
Free preview party Friday, June 12
5 to 7 pm.
Click on NEWS AND EVENTS to the
left for more information.
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2009
EVENTS CALENDAR
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We're shaking things up!
- In our effort to direct limited resources to our long-planned move to Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, in New Lebanon, NY, we will not be opening the Old Chatham museum to the public in 2009.
- We are excited about our future at Mount Lebanon, and will host important restoration projects, public programs, tours, exhibits, and events at the site in summer 2009.
- Please check back frequently for updates, including a completely new website coming in Spring 2009. Thanks for your patience as we make these changes.
- See the NEWS AND EVENTS page to the left for more announcments.
The Shaker Museum and Library was the first institution devoted to Shaker history and is the premier center for the interpretation and exhibition of Shaker life and culture. The collections of the Shaker Museum and Library include Shaker furniture, oval boxes, textiles, machinery, art, products, and tools. The Library holds a host of archival materials including books, manuscripts, and historic pictures.
Mount Lebanon Shaker Village was the center of Shaker culture in America from 1787 to 1947. The Museum purchased the North Family at Mount Lebanon in 2004, and is now in transition, restoring the North Family and relocating public museum programs to this National Historic Landmark. The World Monuments Fund included the site in 2004 and 2006 on its Watch List of the 100 most significant endangered historic sites in the world, stating that the Museum and the Mount Lebanon buildings together will provide "an unparalleled resource for the study of the American Shaker movement, an important and fascinating aspect of American cultural, religious and material history."
