Fruitlands Museum Craft & Artisan Fair

About the event

Please join us on September 18 for an unforgettable evening at World’s End, The Trustees’ most iconic South Shore landscape. Explore a bygone Transcendentalist community whose pastoral landscape houses wide-ranging collections of art and artifacts. In 1843, Amos Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane turned a swath of Harvard farmland into a Transcendentalist experiment in subsistence farming and Emersonian self-reliance, named Fruitlands, which ultimately disbanded after only seven months. In 1914, Clara Endicott Sears opened the grounds to the public, establishing a museum in the property’s 1820s farmhouse. Now, the 210-acre landscape encompasses five collections first established by Sears: the original Fruitlands Farmhouse; the Shaker Museum, the first such museum in the country; the Wayside Visitor Center, a classroom, education, and exhibit space; the Seasonal Gallery; and the Four Seas...

Venue

Fruitlands Museum

Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA

Good fit for

Handmade & Crafts Art & Photography

On-site amenities

pet friendly accessible live music family friendly