Art Museum
The Art Museum features a working 1912 carousel manufactured by Charles I. D. Looff (with free rides) around the rotunda are other carved animal figures from carousels including an ostrich, frog, zebra, cat and deer. The building features a large collection of New England folk art - paintings, weathervanes, Nantucket baskets, scrimshaw, shop signs and more. Changing seasonal exhibitions are also featured in this building.
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“That life is really so tragic would least of all explain the origin of an art form—assuming that art is not merely imitation of the reality of nature but rather a metaphysical supplement of the reality of nature, placed beside it for its overcoming.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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