Museum sights in New England
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Brooks Academy Museum
The Harwich Historical Society’s museum is where to learn about the turkey-side dish, the cranberry, which was first successfully cultivated in Harwich.
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Hood Museum of Art
Shortly after the university's founding in 1769 Dartmouth began to acquire artifacts of artistic or historical interest. Since then the collection has expanded to include nearly 60,000 items, which are housed at the Hood Museum of Art. The collection is particularly strong in American pieces, including Native American art. One of the highlights is a set of Assyrian reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal that date to the 9th century BC. Special exhibits often feature contemporary artists.
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Enfield Shaker Museum
Set in a valley overlooking Mascoma Lake, the Enfield Shaker Site dates back to the late 18th century and grew into a small but prosperous community of Shaker farmers and craftspeople in the early 1800s. At its peak, some 300 members (divided into several 'families') lived in Enfield, farming 3000 acres of land.
They built a handful of impressive wood and brick buildings in the area took in converts, orphans and children of the poor - who were essential for the Shaker future, since sex was not allowed in the pacifist rule-abiding community. By the early 1900s the community had gone into decline, with the last remaining family moving out in 1917. The Enfield Shaker Museum…
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