BERKSHIRE MUSEUM

The 'Berkshire Museum' is a local museum in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA.
The museum was founded in 1903 by Zenas Crane, grandson of the founder of paper-maker Crane & Company, under the auspices of the Berkshire Athenaeum. The vision was to create an educational community museum for all ages. The museum became independent in 1932.
Today the museum includes galleries on art, ancient civilization, and natural science including a Gallery of Dinosaurs and Paleontology and a Mineral Gallery. It has a notable collection of Hudson River school paintings, as well as a work by Norman Rockwell, portraits by John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, and John Singer Sargent, and kinetic toy sculptures by Alexander Calder. There is also an aquarium.
The 'Ellen Crane Memorial Sculpture Gallery' presents neoclassical sculptures, mainly in marble, by sculptors including Giovanni Maria Benzoni (1809–1873), Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876–1973), Randolph Rogers (1825–1892), Franklin Simmons (1839–1913) and Giulio Tadolini (1849–1918).

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★ Bershire Museum website

★ Ellen Crane Memorial Sculpture Gallery