Canterbury Shaker Village

Come experience a living Shaker community - Canterbury Shaker Village. Discover the purposeful way of life practiced by the Shakers from the 1780's to today.
Shakers lived apart in self-contained communities from Maine to Kentucky. Within their villages they practiced equality of the sexes and races, common ownership of goods, celibacy and pacifism. They strove to make their villages an earthly heaven.
Two hundred years of devoting their "Hands to Work and Hearts to God" created a legacy of architecture, furniture, crafts, inventions and song greatly admired today.
Canterbury Shaker Village was founded in the 1780's, the sixth of nineteen Shaker communities. At its peak in 1860, some 300 people lived, worked and worshipped in 100 buildings on 4,000 acres, and made their living from farming, selling seeds and herbs, manufacturing medicines, and making crafts.
Experience the Shakers' "Kindly welcome." Experts on Shaker history guide you through a world of beautiful images preserved through the ongoing care of manuscripts, photographs, artifacts, and original buildings.
Skilled craftsmen recreate the traditional Shaker crafts of broommaking, oval box making, woodworking, poplarware, spinning and weaving.
Tour the village. Enjoy lunch in the Creamery Restaurant mid-day, or a sandwich and dessert from our Summer Kitchen. Or savor a four-course Shaker dinner, prepared by our acclaimed chef and served by candlelight. Our Creamery Restaurant is open year-round.
Enter through our gate into another world - gentle, serene, inspiring. Feel the spirit of a community rich in values. Discover Shaker traditions through a guided tour, changing exhibits and demonstrations of timeless crafts. Better still, enter our world time and again as we celebrate the seasons and holidays as the Shakers did.

HOURS

Open: May 20 through October 31. Hours: Daily 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM; and on December 8 & 15, 2012, 3pm-8pm for our "Christmas at Canterbury" program.

Museum administrative offices in the Brethren Shop and Visitor Center are open year-round Monday-Friday from 9am-5pm.

Museum Store: The Museum Store is open according the following schedule. You may place an order by calling (603) 783-9511.
•May 1, 2012 - October 31, 2012 - Daily 10am - 5pm.
•November 1 - December 23, the store is open daily 10am - 4pm (closed Thanksgiving Day)

Restaurant: Greenwood's Restaurant, conveniently located near our Visitor Center, will open on May 14 and remain open daily through October 31 and on special event weekends in November and December. Greenwood's will serve lunch Monday – Saturday and brunch on Sunday from 11am – 3pm. Reservations are highly recommended. Please call 603-783-4238 for more information

ADMISSION

Adults: $17.00
Youth (6 yrs. to 17 yrs): $8.00
Children (5 yrs and younger): Free
Family (2 adults & 2 or more children, ages 6 to 17): $42.00
Adult Groups (20 or more adults): $13.00 per person
Members: FREE
Pets are not allowed in the Village.

Canterbury Shaker Village, Inc. is a nonprofit educational corporation supported by gifts from individuals, foundations, and corporations and from admissions and sales of gifts, crafts, and food.

LOCATION & DIRECTIONS

Canterbury Shaker Village is located in Canterbury, 20 minutes north of Concord, N.H. and is easily accessible from Interstate 93. Northbound: I-93 to Exit 15E, I-393 to 106N. 7 miles, turn left onto Shaker Road, go 3 miles. Southbound: I-93 to Exit 20, left on U.S. 3, 140E., follow signs to Shaker Village.

View (and print) a map courtesy of Mapquest.

INFORMATION

Canterbury Shaker Village
288 Shaker Rd.
Canterbury, New Hampshire 03224
Telephone: 1-603-783-9511
Fax: 1-603-783-9152
Email: info@shakers.org

Web Site: http://www.shakers.org/

For information on activities and events
at Canterbury Shaker Village,
please go to our Calendar of Shaker Events