Handshouse Studio

Handshouse Studio Handshouse Studio is a non-profit, innovative, educational organization that creates adventurous hands-on projects

Handshouse Studio is a non-profit, innovative, educational organization that creates adventurous hands-on projects through community-service, building projects with non-profit partners around the world as a way to explore history, understand science, and perpetuate the arts. Handshouse, co-founded by Rick Brown and Laura Brown in 2002, is located in Norwell, Massachusetts. It has gained internatio

nal recognition for its pedagogical method of connecting institutions and organizations to carry out bold and complex educational built projects. Handshouse creates projects outside of the traditional classroom that energize history through the reconstruction of large historical objects. Through the intensive investigation of a single object, doors open to a wide range of related subjects, usually studied independently, creating a richly layered understanding of a moment in history, a literal three-dimensional view of the object and an interactive and engaging method of learning how this object fit into its world and what part it has played in the creation of our world today.

Notre-Dame Project on exhibition in Cooperstown, NY! Come check it out!
06/25/2025

Notre-Dame Project on exhibition in Cooperstown, NY! Come check it out!

A replica truss from the Notre Dame cathedral made its debut at the Fenimore Art Museum on Tuesday.

Handshouse had the privilege of presenting our 1:10 scale white oak model of Notre-Dame de Paris’ timber framed roof str...
05/24/2025

Handshouse had the privilege of presenting our 1:10 scale white oak model of Notre-Dame de Paris’ timber framed roof structure at the 60th Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University on May 9. Constructing and assembling this dizzying set of trusses requires deep collaboration—something Handshouse has centered since our founding in 2002. Now, we need to put the adage “many hands make light work” to the test. Can we lift Handshouse toward the future together? Lend your hand by donating to the Group Lift Campaign today at: handshouse.org/grouplift

A big thank you to the community at the Western Michigan University International Congress on Medieval Studjes for joini...
05/13/2025

A big thank you to the community at the Western Michigan University International Congress on Medieval Studjes for joining us for this fantastic model workshop! And an even bigger thank you to Penn State Professor Lindsay Cook, Ph.D., who brought us to the conference! Join the Handshouse mailing list to get the full story and learn about future events: handshouse.org/subscribe

Tune into Rick Brown's presentation via livestream! TOMORROW!Friday, March 28 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Watch as Rick, 202...
03/27/2025

Tune into Rick Brown's presentation via livestream! TOMORROW!
Friday, March 28 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Watch as Rick, 2025 Distinguished Alumni shares with a group of North Cross School students how to raise an Egyptian obelisk as the ancient Egyptians did – with little more than sand, rope, wood, muscle, and brainpower.
https://www.youtube.com/live/7U-6kpTsA1Q

Participants in a Handshouse Studio: Gwozdźiec Synagogue Reconstruction workshop paint components of the historic synago...
03/20/2025

Participants in a Handshouse Studio: Gwozdźiec Synagogue Reconstruction workshop paint components of the historic synagogue (above). The full-scale, full-color reconstruction is now on exhibition at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Handshouse needs a group lift! We know that many hands make light work. Can we count on you to help raise Handshouse toward the future? Donate at handshouse.org/grouplift

Handshouse needs a group lift! DONATE TODAY! Top row: A bel...
03/07/2025

Handshouse needs a group lift! DONATE TODAY! Top row: A beloved Asian elephant at Buttonwood Park Zoo playing with “the Archimedes Screw,” a toy made by MassArt students.

Second row left: Ring-tailed lemur playing with a toy made by Boston Prep students.

Second row right: Linne’s two-toed sloth playing with a toy made by MassArt students.

Third row: An example of a student toy, “the Turning Tower Toy Feeder,” made by students from Apponequet Regional High School for a variety of small primate species.

Handshouse participants have crafted over 500 Mycenaean and early Greek clay Trojan Horse votive replicas for the Trojan...
01/30/2025

Handshouse participants have crafted over 500 Mycenaean and early Greek clay Trojan Horse votive replicas for the Trojan Horse project. Together, WE can craft a sustainable future for Handshouse. Donate to the Group Lift Campaign today and help raise Handshouse toward the future! handshouse.org/grouplift

In 2003, Handshouse created an accurate, operable replica of David Bushnell’s wooden submarine, originally designed to b...
01/27/2025

In 2003, Handshouse created an accurate, operable replica of David Bushnell’s wooden submarine, originally designed to break a British blockade during the American Revolution. Now, we need operating support for OUR future. Your donation will be the hands that lift Handshouse toward the future. Donate today at handshouse.org/grouplift The Handshouse Studio: Bushnell Turtle Submarine is currently on exhibition at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC.

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