The Bidwell House: A museum located in Monterey, which is a stunning example of an original Georgian saltbox. It was originally built around 1750 as a parsonage and has been fully restored with antiques from that time period. Open daily between 11 am and 4 pm from Memorial Day to mid October.

For more info please visit the Bidwell House online:
www.bidwellhousemuseum.org

The Norman Rockwell Museum: This museum is located in Stockbridge, MA. America's most beloved and successful illustrator, Norman Rockwell took care to ensure that his work and legacy are well remembered at this 36-acre site, just minutes from lovely downtown Stockbridge. Among the features are a Housatonic River walk, a gift shop, excellent picnicking grounds and a $4-million main museum building designed by Robert A.M. Stern.

For more info visit the Normal Rockwell Museum online:
www.nrm.org

The Mount/Edith Wharton Restoration: Located in Lenox, MA, the Edith Wharton Restoration was founded in 1980 to bring back the estate to its former grandeur reflecting the life, times, art and ideas of acclaimed American author Edith Wharton. This "work in progress" is living and breathing, housing the renowned troupe of Shakespeare and Company, whose summer performances using The Mount itself as a stage. The grounds are stunning.

For more info visit the Mount online:
www.edithwharton.org

Naumkeag Museum: Located in Stockbridge, MA, this 26-room gabled mansion, designed by Stanford White in 1885, was the summer home of Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917), noted attorney and ambassador to England at the turn of the century. At Naumkeag, time has stood still. Visitors will find the grounds and period rooms a brilliant reflection of the Gilded Age.

For more info visit Naumkeag online:
www.berkshireweb.com/trustees/naumkeag.html

Hancock Shaker Village: An outdoor history museum located in Pittsfield, MA, the village memoralizes Shaker life on 1,200 acres in the scenic Berkshire Hills. Its twenty restored historical buildings are a vital link to the past and America's most successful communitarian society, reflecting their practiced harmony with the land and their passionate dedication to producing simple yet elegant furniture and dwellings.

For more info visit the Hancock Shaker Village online:
www.hancockshakervillage.org/

The Mission House Museum: Located in Stockbridge, MA, this simple frame house was built by John Sergeant, first missionary to the Stockbridge Indians, for his bride, Abigail, in 1739. According to legend, its striking Connecticut doorway was brought to Stockbridge by ox-team over a wilderness trail.

For more info visit the Mission House online:
www.berkshireweb.com/trustees/mission.html

Williams College Museum of Art: The WCMA is one of the nation's most outstanding examples of a museum on a college campus. The museum's fourteen galleries house over eleven-thousand pieces, representing a broad range of eras and societies, with the many disciplines of art from Western and non-Western traditions alike.

For more info visit the WCMA online:
www.wcma.org

The Colonel John Ashley House: Located in Ashley Falls, MA, this historic house was built in 1735 by French and Indian War veteran Colonel John Ashley, a founder of the old quarry town of Sheffield. It is said to be the oldest complete house in the Berkshires

For more info visit the Ashley House online:
www.berkshireweb.com/trustees/ashley.html

The Chesterwood House: Located in Stockbridge, MA, Chesterwood is the early 20th century country home of sculptor Daniel Chester French, who sculpted the extraordinary seated Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Over 500 pieces of sculpture are collected at Chesterwood and French's original studio. The house, gardens, central fountain and the lovely vista of 120 acres of rolling estate are all accessible to visitors of the property

For more info visit the Chesterwood House online:
www.chesterwood.org

The Berkshire Museum: Located in Pittsfield, MA, this museum boasts vast and varied collections of art, history and natural science. It includes 18 galleries of art, an interactive aquarium, a gift shop and exhibits featuring both local flora and fauna as well as more exotic examples, like coral reefs.

For more info visit the Berkshire Museum online:
www.berkshiremuseum.org

Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum: Located in Lenox, MA, the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum provides 2-1/2 hour round trip train rides between Lenox and Stockbridge. Lenox station houses a museum of railroad-related items and a gift shop. A new exhibit "The Gateway to the Gilded Age" provides insight to the "Cottage Era" in the Berkshires through historic glass plate photos from the turn of the last century.

For more info visit the Berkshire Railway online:
www.berkshirescenicrailroad.org

The Museum of the Gilded Age: Located in Lenox, MA, this wonderfully restored mansion was orginally built in 1893. Its architecture is a classic example of Elizabethan Revival.

For more info please visit the Museum of the Gilded Age online:
www.gildedage.org

The Crane Museum of Papermaking: Located in Dalton, MA and built in 1844, papermaking giant Crane and Co.'s Old Stone Mill was converted into a spacious one-room museum in 1930. Its ivy-covered outside walls house elegant "ship hull construction" and a colonial look augmented by both natural lighting and detailed chandeliers. Master modeler Dard Hunter created a scale-model of the original papermaking process and there are many examples of the financial instruments and stationery which are made from Crane's paper

For more info visit the Crane Museum online:
www.crane.com/about/museum

The Herman Melville House(Arrowhead): Located in Pittsfield, MA, Arrowhead interpretes the life of the Melville family in the Berkshires. It was at Arrowhead that Melville wrote his most famous work, Moby Dick, along with three other novels, Pierre, The Confidence Man, and Israel Potter.

For more info please visit Arrowhead online:
www.mobydick.org

Tyringham's Gingerbread House: Located in Tyringham, MA, this building was designed as a sculpture studio by the late Sir Henry Kitson, sculptor of the Minute Man at Lexington. Explore a museum, art gallery, sculpture gardens and pond plus a gift shop

For more info please visit the Gingerbread House online:
www.berkshireweb.com/santarella/index.html

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: Located in Williamstown, MA, "the Clark" is an art museum and a center for research and higher education, dedicated to advancing and extending the public understanding of art. In additon to Renoir, Monet, Degas and French 19th-century works, the collection, which spans the Renaissance through the late-nineteenth century, continues to grow by purchase and gift. American artists, including Frederick Remington and Winslow Homer, are also well represented. Admission is free.

For more info please visit the Clark Institute online:
www.clarkart.edu

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