Berkshire Carousel

The Berkshire Carousel is a community project designed to create an authentic classic wooden carousel that is both a work of art and a wonderful form of family entertainment. 

The project involves hundreds of volunteers from Berkshire County who are carving, sanding, and painting the carousel ponies and creating the artwork to be featured on the ride. The Berkshire Carousel will be the most ambitious and largest permanent artwork ever created in the Berkshires. The Carousel is to be completed in 2014. 

All the 40 ponies are being hand carved by volunteers working with professional carvers.
The ponies are being modeled after classical figures made in the USA during the Golden Age of Carousels (1880 - 1930). The ponies will reflect the styles of the major carvers of the time period.