Things To Do in Berkshires

1. Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

A lot of excitement and anticipation surrounded this ambitious project, the conversion of an empty 27-building textile factory into a center for...

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• Museums

2. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Within these walls are canvases by Renoir (34 of them), Degas, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pissarro, and Corot, their predecessor. Look for Turner's...

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• Museums

3. Williams College Museum of Art

The second leg of Williamstown's two prominent art repositories exists in large part thanks to the college's collection of almost 400 paintings...

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• Museums

4. The Berkshire Theatre Festival

From June to August, and occasionally at other times during the year, The Berkshire Theatre Festival holds its season of classic and new plays,...

5. Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival

In 1933, Ted Shawn decided to put on a show in the barn, and so was Jacob's Pillow born. After decades of advance and retreat and evolution, Jacob's...

6. Santarella

With no obligatory historic homes or museums to see in Lee, visitors often make the short excursion to a fairy-tale structure called Santarella,...

7. Shakespeare & Company

The repertory company had long used buildings and amphitheaters on the grounds of The Mount to stage its May-to-December season of plays by the...

8. The Mount, Edith Wharton Restoration

Wharton, who won a Pulitzer for her novel The Age of Innocence, was singularly equipped to write that deftly detailed examination of the upper...

9. Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio

Built on 46 acres next to the Tanglewood property in the early 1940s, this Bauhaus-influenced house was the home of abstract artists Suzy Frelinghuysen...

10. Berkshire Museum

It began in 1903 as the "Museum of Natural History and Art," words chiseled in stone above the entrance. The holdings bounce from Babylonian cuneiform...

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• Museums