Webb Gallery is the Museum’s primary showcase for American art. It houses the ongoing exhibition Painting a Nation: American Art at Shelburne Museum. Painting a Nation opened in 2014 after … Continued

This intimate stone structure was built as a log home in Shelburne in 1790. When the house was moved to the Museum in 1950, the clapboards and interior walls had … Continued

Variety Unit, so named because of the eclectic range of collections it exhibits, is the only building original to the Museum site. It was a private home built in 1835 … Continued

Stagecoach Inn is the place to see Shelburne Museum’s renowned folk art collection, one of the earliest and finest in the country. Imposing cigar-store figures, elegant ship’s carvings, and whimsical … Continued

Shaker Shed is so named because it was part of a Shaker community in Canterbury, New Hampshire. It was built in 1840 as a one-story horse and carriage stand, and … Continued

Step into the one-room Schoolhouse to experience a day in the life of a Vermont country school in the 1800s. Visitors of all ages are welcome to sit at the … Continued

Rare, nineteenth-century painted stencils cover the board walls of the entrance hall, parlor, and dining room in Stencil House. In each room is a mix of high-style and vernacular painted … Continued

Settlers’ House offers a look at colonial life in Vermont in the 1790s. The building itself is actually from a later period—it was built around 1846 in East Charlotte, Vermont—but … Continued

The Museum’s eighty-foot-diameter Round Barn is one of only two dozen built in the state. Round barns, designed for economy of labor, were first built by Massachusetts Shakers in 1826 … Continued

Shelburne Museum’s Railroad Station is the original station for the town of Shelburne. Built in 1890 near the center of Shelburne, it served passengers of the Central Vermont and Rutland … Continued

Daily letterpress demonstrations at the Printing Shop highlight the technological changes that transformed communications in New England. A variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century presses are on view, some of which … Continued

Please note: Prentis House is only accessible as part of a guided tour. Prentis House was built in Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1773, and it was moved to the Museum in … Continued

Ogden Minton Pleissner (1905-83) was a staff artist for LIFE magazine during World War II before becoming a nationally recognized landscape and sporting arts painter. Pleissner Gallery, built in 1986, features … Continued

The Meeting House portrays an early American community space and serves as a site for performances, weddings, and meetings. The ongoing Green Mountain Medley exhibition inside gives visitors an overview … Continued

All aboard! Visitors are welcome to enter and explore this medium-sized 4-6-0 locomotive, which pulled freight and passenger trains across Vermont in the early 1900s. The engine, built in 1915, … Continued

Shelburne Museum’s Lighthouse originally guided mariners past treacherous shoals in Lake Champlain. Today it is a welcoming sanctuary near the center of the Museum’s campus, the perfect place to pause … Continued

A small window is the only source of light or air for the two cells and the jailer’s area in the Museum’s fifty-ton slate jail. The Jail was built in … Continued

More than 200 nineteenth- and early twentieth-century horse-drawn carriages, coaches, and sleighs, comprising what is widely considered one of the best collections in the country, are housed in Horseshoe Barn … Continued

The name “Hat and Fragrance” refers to Electra Havemeyer Webb’s collection of rare hatboxes and the herbal sachets used to preserve early textiles. Today, the Hat and Fragrance Gallery houses … Continued

Just as a real general store would have been the center of its community, Shelburne Museum’s General Store is at the center of the Museum’s campus. Visitors can browse shelves … Continued