Harvard's Fruitlands Museum to reopen May 19
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The Fruitlands Museum in Harvard
The Fruitlands Museum in Harvard is set to reopen May 19 in a controlled fashion with only its outdoor grounds open to the public.
The Trustees, a conservation group that runs the site and dozens of others across the state, said the Fruitlands Museum and others will open at a time when the weather is getting warmer, coronavirus cases across Massachusetts are slowly decreasing, and people are itching to get outside.
The Fruitlands Museum is one of five high-profile and often busy sites the Trustees have closed to limit crowding. The others are Crane Beach on the Crane Estate in Ipswich, deCordova Sculpture Park in Lincoln; Naumkeag in Stockbridge and World's End in Hingham. Like with the Fruitlands Museum, buildings will remain closed at deCordova and Naumkeag.
The 210-acre site in Harvard is a former farm turned into a self-reliant experiment in sustenance farming. Today, the site includes the original 1820s farmhouse, a visitor's center with classrooms and exhibition space, and Shaker, Native American and art museums.
The Trustees are asking the public to limit visits to properties nearest to them and to keep their distance from other visitors.
Most of the Trustees' outdoor sites in Massachusetts have already reopened.
In Central Massachusetts those properties include the following locations: Bridge Island Meadows, Millis; Brooks Woodland Preserve, Petersham; Cedariver, Millis; Chestnut Hill Farm, Southborough (trails only); Cormier Woods, Uxbridge and Mendon; Dexter Drumlin, Lancaster; Doyle Community Park, Leominster; Elliott Laurel, Phillipston; Farandnear, Shirley; Jacobs Hill, Royalston; North Common Meadow, Petersham; Pegan Hill, Dover and Natick; Redemption Rock, Princeton; Royalston Falls, Royalston; Swift River Reservation, Petersham; Tantiusques, Sturbridge.
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