Berkshires Museums
Arrowhead
The Home of Herman Melville
780 Holmes Road
Pittsfield, MA 01201/
http://www.mobydick.org
Arrowhead was the home of Herman Melville from 1850-1862. It was at Arrowhead
that Melville wrote his most famous work, Moby-Dick.
Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum
Willow Creek Road
P.O. Box 2195
Lenox, MA 01240
http://www.regionnet.com/colberk/berkshirerailway.html
Ride the old trains around Berkshire County
Crane Museum
Housatonic Street
Dalton, MA 01226
http://www.crane.com
Crane & Co. invites you to visit The Crane Museum of Papermaking,
housed in Crane’s 1844 Old Stone Mill. The museum, first opened
in the autumn of 1930, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The one-story building is pleasantly situated on the banks of the Housatonic
River, which supplied the water to wash the rags and drive the machinery
of the early Crane mills.
Hancock Shaker Village
http://www.hancockshakervillage.org/
Original Shaker site with 20 restored historic buildings, working
farm, special events & workshops.
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
87 Marshall Street
North Adams, MA 01247
http://www.massmoca.org
Open to the public since May 1999, MASS MoCA is an extraordinary project
to convert a 27-building historic mill complex in the Berkshire mountains
of Western Massachusetts into a multi-disciplinary center for visual,
performing and media arts. More than a static display hall, MASS MoCA
provides space, tools, and time for artists.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
225 South Street
Williamstown, MA 01267
Admission is free.
http://www.clarkart.edu/
The Bennington Museum
West Main Street
Bennington, VT 05201
http://www.benningtonmuseum.com
The Bennington Museum is one of the finest regional history and art museums
in New England. Located on West Main Street (Route 9), one mile west of
the intersection of Routes 7 and 9 in downtown Bennington, Vermont, the
museum houses the largest public collection of Grandma Moses paintings
and memorabilia, along with the Grandma Moses Schoolhouse she attended
as a child.
The Berkshire Museum
39 South Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201
http://www.berkshiremuseum.org
The Berkshire Museum, recognized as one of the finest small Museums in
the nation, is one of the few Museums where art, history and the natural
world are displayed in one place. "Wally" a 26-foot long, 10-foot
high stegosaurus welcomes visitors to the Museum - located on the east
side of Route 7 near Park Square in the heart of Pittsfield, MA.
The Norman Rockwell Museum
Route 183
Stockbridge, MA, 01202
(413) 298-4100
http://www.nrm.org
Williams College Museum of Art
http://www.wcma.org/
Route 2
Williamstown, MA 01267
WCMA emphasized American art, modern and contemporary art, and the art
of Asia and other non-Western civilizations.
Williamstown, Ma from route 7