2020 Online Fall Auction and Giving Gala

Bidding has closed! From all of us at Enfield Shaker Museum, thank you for your support of our 2020 Online Fall Auction and Giving Gala.

Item winners will be notified after bidding closes. Separately, an invoice including 1) any items you have won, 2) Buy It Now items you have purchased, and 3) Cause Within a Cause contributions you have made, as well as payment instructions, will be emailed to you on December 1 by 5 PM EST.

All digital items will be emailed to winners shortly after payment.

If you would like your item shipped to you (please see shipping requirements below OR in the description for your item), please call the Museum at (603) 632-4346 or email us at development@shakermuseum.org. *In the subject line of your email, please indicate “2020 Auction Shipping Request” and provide your shipping address.* We will reply with any shipping costs, an adjusted invoice, and a general timeline of when to expect your item.

If you are picking up your item, the Museum will be open the following dates and times through December 20, 2020:

Thursday & Friday: 1 PM – 5 PM
Saturday & Sunday: 11 AM – 5 PM

If you would like to pick up your item at a different time, please call the Museum at (603) 632-4346 or email us at development@shakermuseum.org to set a pickup time.

CAUSE WITHIN A CAUSE:

If you have donated to our Cause Within a Cause segment, you will receive payment instructions for the amount you have donated on December 1 by 5 PM EST.

After you make your donation, a digital acknowledgment letter will then be emailed to you shortly. Thank you for your support!

SHIPPING REQUIREMENTS:

Please check the description of your item for shipping availability.

Digital items are available worldwide. Gift certificates and other letter-size items are available to be shipped domestically. Smaller items are potentially available for shipping domestically *at the buyer's expense.* Larger items are local pickup only.

Items may be picked up at:

Enfield Shaker Museum
447 NH Route 4A
Enfield, NH 03748

If you have any questions about shipping availability please contact us at (603) 632-4346 OR email development@shakermuseum.org.

2020 CAUSES WITHIN A CAUSE

Cause # 1 – PRESERVATION

This year the Museum wishes to continue the work on restoring the Dairy windows. Much of the dairy work performed by the Enfield Shakers was considered sisters’ work in the nineteenth century, but the work of restoring the original windows of one of the Museum’s oldest building requires all of us to contribute. Each window requires a custom restoration by a master craftsman.

Cause #2 – COLLECTIONS

Love the sun and open air? Artifacts don’t. Preserving the Museum’s growing collection of rare Shaker documents and artifacts for future generations of visitors, students, and scholars requires professional storage and display equipment for ready and safe access.

Cause #3 – DIGITIZATION

Enfield Shaker Museum is a national historic site AND a website! Both require contributions-–textual, visual, and financial-–to allow us to reach and teach more people around the world about the Enfield Shakers and their legacy.

Discover a National Treasure in Your Own Backyard!

Nestled in a valley between Mt. Assurance and Mascoma Lake, in Enfield, New Hampshire, the Enfield Shaker community site has been cherished for over 200 years. At its peak in the mid 19th century, the community was home to three “Families” of Shakers. They practiced equality of the sexes and races, celibacy, pacifism, and communal ownership of property. The Enfield Shakers farmed over 3,000 acres of land, educated children in model schools, and worshiped in the “Shaker Way.”

Today, their story is preserved by Enfield Shaker Museum.

The mission of the Enfield Shaker Museum, an educational institution, is to preserve and share its historical structures, landscape, and Shaker cultural heritage with our multi-generational visitors, members, and the global community.