Museums and Galleries
Southern VT has museums that celebrate Grandma Moses to maple
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West Marlboro, VT
Southern Vermont Natural History Museum
7599 Route 9 East 802-464-0048Bring your curiosity about Vermont's native wildlife to this museum on Hogback Mountain. Six hundred specimens of hundreds of New England bird and mammal species are here for your perusal, along with minerals, wildflowers, live birds of prey. fish, and reptiles. You can do hiking and mountain biking next to the museum; access to state and national forests is nearby.
Hours: Open daily 10am - 4pm.
Admission: Adults $5, Seniors $3, Kids 5-12 $2, 4 and Under Free.
Manchester, VT
American Museum of Fly Fishing
4070 Main Street - US Route 7A 802-362-3300The American Museum of Fly Fishing, home to the world’s largest collection of angling art and angling-related items, brings the history of fly fishing alive for anglers and others. The museum contains an impressive exhibit gallery space, a library and reading room, a museum store, and other resources. The exhibit’s opening section contains an illustrated timeline, which takes the visitor from Aelian’s comments on fly fishing in 200 A.D. to the sport today.
Hours: June to October: Tuesday-Sunday 10am - 4pm ; November to May: Tuesday-Saturday 10am - 4pm.
Admission: Adults $5; Children 5-14 $3.
Bellows Falls, VT
Adams Old Stone Grist Mill Museum
Mill Street Under-the-Hill 802-376-6789This historic museum features 19th century milling equipment, farm tools and machinery. The structure houses much of its original equipment, including all the grain elevators and storage bins. Implements from the Vermont Farm Machinery Company are also stored in the building, as well as household articles, antique signs, and hand tools used by various craftsmen that were there when the business closed in the early 1960s, and the original sleigh for the Mill, as well as the family sleigh, all belonging to the Adams Family. The mill is maintained by the Bellows Falls Historical Society, who also operates a museum and education center at 31 Westminster Street.
Hours: Museum is open Saturdays from 1-3pm. The Grist Mill is currently closed to the public for major restoration work until spring 2022.
Manchester, VT
Southern Vermont Arts Center
930 SVAC Drive 802-362-1405The Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum, is a secure repository and display space for the Arts Center’s permanent collection, now over 900 pieces, of 19th and 20th century works, including the world’s largest collection of works by Luigi Lucioni, and a venue in which to host major national and international traveling exhibitions.
Admission: Adults $10, Students and Seniors $5, Kids 10 and under Free. - Hours Tuesday-Sunday 10am - 5pm; Closed Mondays
Brattleboro, VT
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center
10 Vernon Street 802-257-0124Brattleboro Museum & Art Center is a small, on-collecting museum housed in a historic train station. Compelling new exhibits by regional and internationally acclaimed artists are shown each season. Admission is pay-as-you-wish, but the museum does humbly ask for a $5-10 donation per visitor.
Hours: Wednesday thru Sunday, 10am - 4pm. Closed Monday & Tuesday.
Arlington, VT
Norman Rockwell Exhibition
Route 7A and Sugar Shack Lane 802-375-6747Display of Norman Rockwell’s artistry, featuring work he did while living in Arlington from 1939 to 1953. There are Saturday Evening Post covers, illustrations, prints, and gift shop in the former 19th-century church. In mid-May there is an annual reunion of the townspeople who posed as Rockwell’s models. Admission: $1. Hours: Call for hours of operation