Enfield Shaker Museum: Expanding Visitor Access Through Digital Collections and Smartphone Tours

FAIN: GA-276043-20

Enfield Shaker Museum (Enfield, NH 03748-3503)
Shirley Teresa Wajda (Project Director: May 2020 to May 2024)

A project that develops smartphone tours for the museum to aid in social distancing and continued efforts to catalog their collections to increase online access.

Enfield Shaker Museum seeks to broaden visitors’ digital and physical access to the Museum’s physical site and website by: creating a digital collection and archive portal of objects and documents relating to the historic Enfield Shakers and to the history of the Museum and preservation of the core of the original Enfield Shaker Village; developing and posting related online educational activities and lesson plans; and creating a series of web-based smartphone tours to provide new interpretations of the historic site, its buildings, and its exhibitions, while ensuring visitor safety should COVID-19 pandemic restrictions allow. With these products the Museum will be able to continue to employ key personnel and fulfill our mission of preserving and sharing its historic structures, landscape, and Shaker cultural heritage with its multi-generational visitors, members, and the global community.