Fruitlands Museum

Fruitlands Museums Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Fruitlands Museum
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Location	Harvard, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°29′37″N 71°36′47″W / 42.49361°N 71.61306°W / 42.49361; -71.61306
Area	210 acres (85 ha)
Built	1910
Architectural style	Shingle Style, Bungalow/Craftsman
NRHP reference No.	97000439[1]
Added to NRHP	May 23, 1997

Shakers

Topics
Chronology of Shakers Era of Manifestations Shaker communities Shaker families Shaker furniture Shaker inventions "Simple Gifts" Works based on "Simple Gifts" Anti-Shaker
Notable people
Founders Jane and James Wardley Ann Lee William Lee James Whittaker Joseph Meacham Lucy Wright Other members Shaker members
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Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, is a museum about multiple visions of America on the site of the short-lived utopian community, Fruitlands. The museum includes the Fruitlands farmhouse (a National Historic Landmark), a museum about Shaker life, an art gallery with 19th-century landscape paintings, vernacular American portraits, and other changing exhibitions, and a museum of Native American history. In 2023, readers of USA Today voted to name Fruitlands as one of the ten best history museums in the United States.^[2]

Visitors can tour the farmhouse, which has been restored to appear as it did during the 1840s, and exhibits about Transcendentalism and the Alcott family. Fruitlands offers a diverse schedule of contemporary exhibits, lectures, outdoor concerts and easy walking trails. There is also a museum store and restaurant. The properties are overseen by The Trustees of Reservations.