The Hancock Shaker Village Board of Trustees have picked Jennifer Trainer Thompson’s successor to lead the Pittsfield, Massachusetts museum. Nathaniel Silver, currently the Curator of the ...

The Executive Director and CEO of Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts has resigned after less than a year in the role. In September 2022, Nathaniel Silver left his job at the ...

(This story was originally broadcast on May 31, 2015.) At the Hancock Shaker Village in far western Massachusetts, they have always kept things simple and clean. It's a museum now, where visitors ...

Hancock Shaker Village, Mass. When you first see the village, sleeping on the flank of the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts, you think of impossibly perfect places: Shangri-La ...

Hancock Shaker Village will be hosting a conference called "Living History Museums" in May. It has also teamed with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to conduct a two-year master's degree ...

"She is a modern day renaissance woman who possesses the intelligence, skills, style and a passion for art and community that will propel Hancock Shaker Village into the next decade." A Southeastern ...

Welcome to the Shaker Village Second House, circa 1795. The generous floorplan includes a total of five levels, of which three are used as living space. The main central hall level features four ...

Andrews Collection, Hancock Shaker Village, Massachusetts In the 18th century, a singular religious society arrived on American shores from England. Its members were known as Shakers, from their ...

Canterbury Shaker Village has received a $2,500,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative. The grant will support the Village’s reinvigoration ...