#EnfieldEverywhere: Planning and Developing Integrated Physical and Digital Exhibition Sites to Commemorate the 250th Anniversary of Shakerism in America at Enfield Shaker Museum

FAIN: ZPP-284154-22

Enfield Shaker Museum (Enfield, NH 03748-3503)
Shirley Teresa Wajda (Project Director: May 2021 to September 2022)
Sharon D. Koomler (Project Director: September 2022 to January 2026)

The Enfield Shaker Museum in New Hampshire to create two new exhibitions, retain two positions, and create two new jobs.

Enfield Shaker Museum will plan, develop, and script two distinct but complementary exhibitions to open in 2024, the 250th anniversary of the arrival of the Shakers’ founder, Ann Lee, to America. These exhibitions—one a physical site and the other digital—will be integrated with the Museum’s website and social media during and after the project’s completion (2023-2026). The physical site exhibition will explore Shaker religious tenets and their social manifestations as communalism, gender and racial equality, and pacifism, as well as their reification in the Shakers' material culture and built environment and shaping of the natural environment. The exhibition website (#EnfieldEverywhere) will include Enfield artifacts and documents at Enfield and at other museums and libraries and in private hands, a database of Enfield Shakers (already in production), and an expansion of themes beyond the physical exhibition's capacity.