{"id":26863,"date":"2007-10-01T07:38:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T12:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/berkshires-news\/berkshire-museum\/"},"modified":"2007-10-01T07:38:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T12:38:55","slug":"pittsfield-venues-attractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/pittsfield-venues-attractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsfield, MA venues and attractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/berkshires-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Berkshire-Museum-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Berkshire-Museum.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16527\" \/>Pittsfield, MA is the locale of these venues and attractions: <strong>Arrowhead &#8211; Herman Melville&#8217;s Home, Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Athenaeum, Berkshire Community College, Berkshire Museum, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Canoe Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary, Colonial Theatre, Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield State Forest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Berkshire Museum was founded in 1903 by Zenas Crane, grandson of the Zenas Crane who founded Crane &#038; Company in 1801 in nearby Dalton, MA. Established under the auspices of the Berkshire Athenaeum, the Berkshire Musuem has an eclectic collection and presents a diverse range of programs meant to appeal to a broad community-based audience.<\/p>\n<h3>Venues and attractions in Pittsfield, MA:<\/h3>\n<p>[mappress mapid=&#8221;70&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;400&#8243; adaptive=&#8221;true&#8221; poiList=&#8221;true&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span><\/span><span>The  <\/span><span>Berkshire<\/span><span> <\/span><span>Museum<\/span><span> on <\/span><span>South  Street<\/span><span> in <\/span><span>Pittsfield<\/span><span> was founded in 1903 by local business leader  Zenas Crane, patriarch of Dalton&#8217;s Crane family and head of the Crane Paper Company, makers of paper currency for the United States<\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"> <span><span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span><span><\/span>The  <\/span><span>Berkshire<\/span><span> <\/span><span>Museum<\/span><span>\u2019s mission is to actively promote cultural education in<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}