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Shelburne Museum is a museum of art, design, and Americana located in Shelburne, Vermont, United States. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the museum grounds. It is located on 45 acres (18 ha) near Lake Champlain.
The Shelburne Village Historic District encompasses the central portion of the main village of Shelburne, Vermont. Centered on the junction of United States Route 7 with Harbor and Falls Roads, the district's architecture traces the town's history from the 18th to early 20th century.
The Shelburne Museum constructed Webb Gallery in 1960 and designed the building to mimic the facades of its neighboring historic structures. Webb Gallery’s footprint, with a central gable and two flanking wings, echoes the symmetry and scale of adjacent The Dorset House, while the red brick exterior, reflects the texture and color of nearby Vergennes Schoolhouse and The Charlotte Meeting House.
Middlebury Free Press – Middlebury, Vermont; Middlebury Register – Middlebury, Vermont; Le Patriote Canadien (1839–1840) [7] North Star (Vermont newspaper)—Danville, Vermont; Vermont Record – Brandon, Vermont; Vermont Republican and American Journal. Windham, Windsor and Orange County Advertiser – Windsor, Vermont - Existed in 1830.
T. W. Wood Gallery & Arts Center: Montpelier: Washington: Art: Features works of Thomas Waterman Wood and many of his artistic colleagues and contemporaries, and art from the state's Federal Art Project collection [70] Town House Museum: Sheffield: Caledonia: Local history: Operated by the Sheffield Historical Society [29] University of Vermont ...
The exhibit was designed to allow museum visitors to experience everyday life in 1950s Vermont. The house, which opened at the Shelburne Museum in 2000, brought to life the transformative history of America during the mid-20th century when a vibrant consumer culture developed after World War II. Having been built in the 1940s, it was outfitted ...
The Hat and Fragrance Textile Gallery is an exhibit space at Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont which houses quilts, hatboxes, and various other textiles. The name "Hat and Fragrance" refers both to Electra Havemeyer Webb's collection of hatboxes and to the fragrant, herbal sachets used to preserve textiles. In 1954, Shelburne Museum was ...
In 1985 and 1986 the Shelburne Museum relocated the Round Barn to the museum grounds. A helicopter flew the upper segment of the silo, which weighs nine thousand pounds, from Passumpsic to Shelburne, while workmen dismantled the remainder of the building piece-by-piece and transported it on flatbed trucks to museum grounds.