THE ART NEWSPAPER
By Gabriella Angeleti
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A Shaker bench The Shaker Museum
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The Shaker Museum in Chatham, New York, devoted to the culture of the mostly extinct religious sect, has launched a $15m effort to create a 30,000 sq. ft building for its collection, which spans more than 18,000 objects and archival materials. The museum, which manages the
Shaker Village in Mount Lebanon, New York, a historic site where the largest congregation of Shakers settled from 1787 to 1947, was founded as a non-profit institution in 1950 by John Williams, an investment broker who traveled to active Shaker communities beginning in the 1930s and collected what he viewed as artifacts of a fading culture. [
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