[4] Guided tours, exhibitions, and special events take place at the museum's main location - the North Family historic site at Mount Lebanon Shaker Village.
The North Family's Great Stone Barn, built in 1859 and listed on the World Monuments Fund, is undergoing a large-scale stabilization and restoration through 2014, with Phase 1 being completed in November of that year.
The museum exhibits Shaker objects from its collections alongside modern and contemporary artwork, furniture, and photography.
Elder Frederick W. Evans and his cohort of editors, poets, and authors were responsible for more than a hundred tracts and broadsides which included not only theology but also topics ranging from pacifism to the benefits of sparrows, land limitation, and vegetarianism.
-- Mount Lebanon Cedar Boughs: original poems by the North family of Shakers (Buffalo: Peter Paul Company, 1895).