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About Shaker Museum and Library
An Eye Toward Perfection:
The Shaker Museum and LibraryThe Shaker Museum and Library in Old Chatham, NY holds the most important collection of Shaker materials in the world. With more than half obtained directly from Shakers, the collection exhibits remarkable original finishes, superb quality, comprehensive scope, and impeccable provenance. The Museum’s recent acquisition of the North Family property at Mount Lebanon Shaker Village unites the collection with the site that was once the center of all Shaker life.
An Eye Toward Perfection includes some of the best examples of objects that demonstrate Shaker principles of faith, community, industry, and design. Whether sacred or temporal, everything created by Shakers was done with the understanding that it reflected a commitment to earthly perfection. As a result of the Shakers’ constant interaction between the physical and spiritual worlds, the standards for objects they created in this world were set by standards of the next.
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