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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.
Encompassing 39 structures and 45 acres, the Shelburne Museum south of Burlington offers a window into a huge range of Americana: folk art, textiles, toys, horse-drawn carriages — roughly ...
Shelburne Museum. On a rolling hillside overlooking Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains and beginning around sunset, concerts at the Shelburne Museum take on a magical quality. Also, they ...
Festival of Lights (Hawaii), an annual Christmas celebration in Hawaii; Holiday Trail of Lights, a multi-city event celebrated in Louisiana and Texas in the United States; Magnificent Mile Lights Festival, an annual festival on North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois; Nights of Lights, an annual holiday light festival in St. Augustine, Florida
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.
Shelburne Museum's main exhibit through October is railroad art, tracing the impact of trains on the American landscape and its culture.
Shelburne Museum's European and American dolls include bisque, papier-mâché, Parian, china, wax, wood and cloth pieces, most of them made between 1760 and 1930. About 400 dolls are on exhibition in Variety Unit in galleries re-designed in 2004 with new lighting and exhibition labels.
After decades in storage because of "cultural insensitivity," Shelburne Museum's collection of Native American art will now have its own building.