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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“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)