The 25th Annual Festival of Trees
November 14 – January 3

Each year, the Berkshire Museum spruces up the galleries with scores of festive trees decorated by community organizations, businesses, and school children. This year, to mark the Festival’s Silver Anniversary, the trees have been inspired by the theme Silver Bells.

The Festival of Trees is a time-honored Berkshires custom that Brook Farm Inn guests have enjoyed every holiday season.  Ask us for more information, or see www.berkshiremuseum.org

This Saturday, January 24th, visitors to Brook Farm Inn in Lenox Massachusetts will have the opportunity to attend the opening of “Race To the Top: Arctic Inspiration 1909 & Today.”  At this most unusual and exciting exhibit at the Berkshire Museum, you can learn what it was like to be the first to reach the top of the world. 2009 is the 100th anniversary of the expedition of Adm. Robert Peary & Matthew Henson. Special opening day events include ice carving, sled dogs, igloo making and a party.

The 24th annual Festival of Trees is on exhibit at the Berkshire Museum. This year’s theme is Getting Green, and you’ll be uplifted by festive, earth-friendly decorations and designs.  You’ll delight in the museum’s eco-savvy and eco-fabulous enchanted forest of more than 200 trees, decorated with natural materials and recycled objects.  At Brook Farm Inn, we’re making discounted tickets available to our guests, so ask about it when you arrive.

At Brook Farm Inn in Lenox Massachusetts, we’re recommending that our guests see these wonderful exhibits at the Berkshire Museum.

Look at Us: Portraits from the Berkshire Museum
The Berkshire Museum showcases a diverse collection of art from the 17th century to the present. Look at Us, on view July 1 through October 26, 2008, will feature approximately 40 paintings,  drawings, photographs, and prints, by artists over the centuries. Featured artists include: Ammi Phillips, Rembrandt Peale, Asher B. Durand, Erastus Salisbury Field, John Singer Sargent, J.M. Whistler Edouard Vuillard, Norman Rockwell, Kaethe Kollwitz, Alfred Stieglitz, and more. Plus, a selection of portraits on loan from the Whitney Museum of American art will include works by Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Ann Hamilton, and others. Explore how Facebook and other technologies change the way we think of identity and portraiture. Take your picture in the photo booth or get creative at the mobile art studio (Saturdays). July 1-September 1, 2008
Full Moon at Night: Monoprints by Betsy Dovydenas
Eight works by the Lenox, Mass., artist explore the natural world at night.  In-kind sponsor: Curtis Publishing and The Saturday Evening Post

Lenox Massachusetts: The daffodils are blooming in the Berkshires, so we know it’s time to think about Mother’s Day. At Brook Farm Inn, we can help you pamper your mom (or someone else’s mom who just happens to be special to you, too). The Berkshire Museum is planning a weekend-long Celebration of Art and Flowers, May 9-12. They’ll have floral displays, lectures and even programs for youngsters. We have all the information, and will be glad to pass it along if you phone us at 800-285-7638.

Here in Lenox, MA, we’re right next door to Pittsfield, where we recently visited the renovated Berkshire Museum The new Hall of Innovation is a must see! We were amazed at the number of important inventions that took place in the Berkshires.