Arrowhead
The Home of Herman Melville
780 Holmes Road
Pittsfield, MA 01201
413-442-1793
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, along with three other novels, Pierre, The Confidence-Man, and Israel Potter, a collection of short stories entitled The Piazza Tales, all of his magazine stories, and some of his poetry. Arrowhead is now a house museum interpreting the life of the Melville family in the Berkshires. It is owned and operated by the Berkshire County Historical Society, a non-profit corporation.
Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum
Willow Creek Road
P.O. Box 2195
Lenox, MA 01240
(413) 637-2210
http://www.regionnet.com/colberk/berkshirerailway.html
Crane Museum
Housatonic Street
Dalton, MA 01226
(413) 684-2600
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.
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
87 Marshall Street
North Adams, MA 01247
(413) 664-4481
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, cultural institutions and businesses working in sculpture, theater, dance, film, digital media and music. New work is created in partnership with high technology and new media companies.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
225 South Street
Williamstown, MA 01267
(413) 458-9545
Admission is free.
http://www.clarkart.edu/
The Bennington Museum
West Main Street
Bennington, VT 05201
802-447-1571
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
Route 7
Pittsfield, MA 01201
(413) 443-7171
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 at Stockbridge
Route 183
Stockbridge, MA, 01202
(413) 298-4100
http://www.nrm.org
