Between Mt. Assurance & Mascoma Lake Photographer: Roy Knight

Enfield Shaker Museum Makes You Kindly Welcome

HELP THE MUSEUM WITH A MEMBERSHIP INCENTIVE AND AWARD OPPORTUNITY!

As stewards of Enfield Shaker Museum, we have entered a competition with 15 other NH museums to increase our membership. If we raise the greatest number of members and percentage increase by October 31, 2008, Enfield Shaker Museum will receive a $25,000 cash award from the Robert & Karin Finlay Foundation.

If you are not a member, please sign up! For information about membership categories and benefits, click on “Membership” on the left column in this website. If you are already a member, give a membership to a friend or relative. Corporate memberships do not count in this challenge, but you may give memberships to your employees or encourage them to join. For as little as $30.00, a Museum membership will benefit your loved one or professional colleague for a more than a year

Send your check, payable to Enfield Shaker Museum, or credit card data to Enfield Shaker Museum 447 NH Route 4A, Enfield, NH 03748. Or call 603-632-4346, or email us at info@shakermuseum.org. We hope to hear from you by October 31. Thank you

Imagine a place so beautiful and serene that the Shakers called it the "Chosen Vale."

Nestled in a valley between Mt. Assurance and Mascoma Lake, in Enfield, New Hampshire, the Enfield Shaker site has been cherished for over 200 years. At its peak in the mid 19th century, the community was home to three "Families" of Shakers. They practiced equality of the sexes and races, celibacy, pacifism and communal ownership of property. Shakers farmed over 3,000 acres of land, educated children in model schools and worshipped in the "Shaker Way."

Today, their story is preserved by the Enfield Shaker Museum

Great Stone Dwelling House

• Tour the Great Stone Dwelling, the largest Shaker dwelling house ever constructed and home to the Museum.
• Discover a world of faith and harmony through the Museum's collection of Shaker furniture, tools, clothing, photographs and agricultural implements.
• Explore the Museum's herb and flower gardens, fields and hills.
• Enjoy exhibits, special programs, concerts, guided tours and craft demonstrations.
• Hike to the Shaker Feast Ground for a spectacular vista of the Shaker Village nestled along Mascoma Lake.
• Shop at the Museum Store, filled with Shaker-inspired reproductions, books, local crafts and farm products, as well as products from the Museum's renowned herb garden.

"Of all the main dwellings in the nineteen Shaker Communities from Maine to Kentucky, the Great Stone Dwelling was the largest and, in the minds of many, the most stately. In one hundred and forty odd years of its existence it has withstood the ravages of time in perfect condition, excepting the many inside changes that have been made in the past fifty years. It is a lasting monument to the Shakers of Enfield!" Wendell Hess, Enfield, NH (1993)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the site is a vibrant cultural, community and educational center.

The Museum offers spectacular views and splendid accommodations

Enfield Shaker Museum is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational institution dedicated to interpreting and preserving the complex history of the Enfield Shaker Village and the Missionaries of LaSalette.

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