Museum
Fruitlands Museum
25 locals recommend
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Robert
November 10, 2015
Hike and commune with nature,learn history
Aspen
December 3, 2020
The Fruitland’s Museum, besides hosting the annual 4th of July party, gives a wonderful opportunity to learn about the Shaker people and Native Americans. The original people who lived in Harvard have many interesting artifacts and buildings to explore. Fruitland’s also serves a delicious brunch and cafe overlooking prospect hill.
Aisling
September 21, 2020
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. 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.
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…
Amanda
August 31, 2016
This is a fun place, founded by the father of Louisa May Alcott the writer of Little Women, it was a community and now a museum about the Alcott philosophy. Needless to say it didn't work out and this beautiful place was later abandoned due to starvation and the life style being too hard on the idealistic folks who moved out to the country from the city. As a result they all packed it in and went to live in Concord in Emerson's community.
This is a fun place, founded by the father of Louisa May Alcott the writer of Little Women, it was a community and now a museum about the Alcott philosophy. Needless to say it didn't work out and this beautiful place was later abandoned due to starvation and the life style being too hard on the idea…
Amanda
May 28, 2018
This was the early home of Louisa May Alcott and her sister who became an artist living and traveling in Europe. Their father founded Fruitlands based on his wonderful philosophy, unfortunately living life in such an ideal way was too much for a bunch of city transplants and they nearly starved. Still it is a pretty place, and an interesting location to visit if you like literature and history.
This was the early home of Louisa May Alcott and her sister who became an artist living and traveling in Europe. Their father founded Fruitlands based on his wonderful philosophy, unfortunately living life in such an ideal way was too much for a bunch of city transplants and they nearly starved. Sti…
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Location
102 Prospect Hill Rd
Harvard, MA