Museums
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Uncover Vermont Stories
Visit a Museum in Vermont
Vermont’s museums captivate with beauty, storytelling, unique exhibits, and history. Discover paintings by European and American masters, folk art, contemporary sculpture, and more. History museums tell the stories of innovative and passionate Vermonters while science centers explore topics ranging from sustainable farming to the Lake Champlain ecosystem. Some of Vermont’s museums are open seasonally, so check websites before visiting to be sure that your destination is welcoming visitors.
Explore Vermont’s Past
Vermont’s historic museums offer visitors an immersive trip into the Green Mountain State’s stories dating back to Indigenous history, when the Abenaki called this land “ndakinna,” meaning “our land.”
Ethan Allen Homestead Museum
Explore life in Vermont during the American Revolution, including indoor and outdoor Abenaki cultural facilities and programs.
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The Springfield area’s rich innovation and manufacturing history is chronicled at this museum, which houses the largest collection of historically significant machine tools in the country.
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A working farm highlighting historic Vermont agriculture with a museum, live demonstrations, farm animals, and a seasonal sunflower house.
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This Pittsford destination offers a historical journey through Vermont’s profitable and productive maple sugaring industry, including the most complete collection of sugaring artifacts in existence.
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Located within a turn-of-the-century granite processing plant, this museum dives deep into stone history.
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Explore Lake Champlain’s maritime history through boat, equipment, and artifacts on exhibit. Below the surface, certified divers can explore 10 shipwrecks.
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Get to know the history of Norwich University, Vermont’s military college, in Northfield in this 16,000-square-foot facility on campus.
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Built in 1905, the historic home and grounds of Robert and Mary Lincoln is a stronghold of American history, including an original Pullman train car and Pres. Lincoln’s stovepipe hat.
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Explore Vermont’s ski and snowboard history, including the nation’s oldest organized ski patrol in Stowe and a look back at ski culture and art.
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Explore Vermont’s history from the 1600s to present at this Capital District museum next to the Statehouse.
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Ferrisburgh’s Rokeby Museum is a stop along the African American Heritage Trail, exploring Vermont’s history on the Underground Railroad as enslaved people found their way to freedom.
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More than 150,000 exhibited works span 39 historic buildings on the museum’s expansive grounds.
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Explore the world of Vermont marble past, present, and future in uses including art, building, and more in Proctor.
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Interviewing and cultural documentation work together to synthesize a rich slice of Vermont’s past and present.
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The Everyday, Examined
Museum of Everyday Life
This curious destination in Glover, part of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, celebrates the everyday with rotating seasonal displays. From exhibits on scissors and dust to an examination of pencils and string, this is a must-see hidden gem of creatively arranged everyday items.
Art Museums
See the works of regional masters and international game-changers at Vermont’s art museums.
Fleming Museum
More than 24,000 collected pieces take viewers on an exploration of art and anthropology.
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Art installations, including those by artists of color, inspire mindfulness.
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An 1871 Victorian building with an art gallery inside, including the massive “The Domes of the Yosemite.”
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Contemporary art from around the world exhibited both inside the gallery and seasonally outdoors in town.
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Vermont’s oldest art museum stewards two historic collections and shows the work of contemporary Vermont artists.
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The world’s largest collection of Grandma Moses folk art, along with other historically significant Americana, is housed here.
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Explore 15-20 contemporary art exhibitions annually at this southern Vermont mainstay museum.
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This museum explores how creativity can help people tap into their own inner wisdom and find healing.
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Internationally known artists and more local creators find exhibition space at this southern Vermont gallery.
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This museum houses the art of cartoonist Skip Morrow in beautiful downtown Wilmington.
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Norwich’s Montshire Museum of Science offers interactive exhibits, miles of trails outdoors, and many ways for kids to experience hands-on science and learn concepts for themselves.
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Discover hands-on attractions that will capture your creative side while helping the whole family learn about science, technology and conservation.
ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain
This science and nature museum, located on the Burlington waterfront, offers over 100 interactive exhibits, 70 live species native to Lake Champlain, and an immersive 3D Theater.
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A combination history museum and natural science museum featuring historic taxidermy, and Vermont’s only public planetarium.
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This Norwich museum features miles of trails, interactive and hands-on exhibits that teach kids about scientific concepts, and explorations of the natural world.
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See raptors up close, learn about Vermont’s wildlife, and see views of the Ottauquechee River and the forest from great heights on a fully accessible boardwalk.
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Outdoor Music in the Summer
Concerts on the Green
This concert series brings internationally known names to Shelburne Museum for a festival-like atmosphere amidst the unique setting of the museum’s collected Americana and folk art.