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A dynamic schedule of changing exhibitions is shown in The Beatrice O. Chace Gallery during Main Season.
For information regarding our traveling exhibition, Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection, click here. This exhibit will be traveling during 2010 and 2011.
50th Anniversary Exhibit - 2010
In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Hancock Shaker Village and its founding as a museum, the 2010 exhibition will be devoted to personal responses. The goal of the exhibition is to connect viewers to the Shakers’ enduring impact on our culture but more importantly, to help them find a personal connection with prominent organizations and citizens who themselves contribute to our cultural heritage. Local and global members of our community will submit their responses to the question: If you could pick any Shaker creation that for you, best illustrates the Shakers’ enduring influence, what would it be and why?
The objects chosen by participants or “guest curators” will be exhibited in our Beatrice Chace Gallery during the 2010 season, along with a photograph of the participant, and a brief personal statement that answers the question.
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Exhibits within our historic buildings
In their quest to live in a heaven on earth, the Shakers created a distinctive material world. Unique dwellings housed men and women whose labors produced the furniture, textiles, and agricultural and household equipment in what we now call Shaker style. Spared from the ornamentation seen in worldly goods, the objects made by Shaker hands exhibit clean lines and functional grace. The beauty of Shaker style resides in its purity of design.Fifty room-setting exhibitions are offered within the Village. These exhibitions accent the full range of Shaker daily life and show the Village's collection as the Shakers would have used it. In the Brick Dwelling, you will see an infirmary with hospital beds, adults' cradles and 19th-century medical equipment. In the Sisters' Dairy and Weave Loft, you will see looms, spinning wheels and butter churns.
As you explore the Village's buildings you will see the premier collection of Shaker furniture, crafts and tools. You will see traditional Shaker design - oval boxes, peg rails, quintessential Shaker chairs. You will also see things that surprise you - brightly painted furniture, a delicate child's high chair. Room settings within the Village's historic buildings allow you to gain a deeper understanding of the role these objects played in the daily life of the Shakers.
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