Shelburne Museum

SHELBURNE, Vt. – (Oct. 27, 2011) Holy Halloween Batman! Haunted Happenings is Sunday at Shelburne Museum.

From 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.  Shelburne Museum’s grounds will be transformed into Halloween wonderland. This year’s theme is superheros and favorite super characters will be on the grounds from the Justice League to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the X-Men!

Visitors are encouraged to come in costume for trick-or-treating at the museum’s buildings, a tour of the Bat Cave or to test their superhero powers. Admission is $5. Museum members and children age 2 and under are free.

Non-perishable food items will be collected for the Shelburne Food Shelf and donations will be collected for Irene flood relief.

About Shelburne Museum: Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont is one of North America’s finest, most diverse and unconventional museums of art, design and Americana. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in a remarkable setting of 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the museum grounds.  The museum’s collection includes works by the great Impressionists Claude Monet, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas as well as a prized collection of folk art including trade signs, weathervanes and quilts.

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