Canterbury Shaker Village

Canterbury Shaker Village will implement a three-year collections inventory and cataloging project to strengthen their management and care of their object collections. The archives and museum collections are considered one of the largest and most comprehensive of any extant in an original Shaker community. This stewardship project will fulfill a major institutional need and resolve collection access and use problems for 40,000 three-dimensional items. Enhanced physical and intellectual control of the collection will result in improved access to the collection for the benefit of staff as well as researchers of Shaker history and material culture.