Open Daily 10 AM – 5 PM
Gather in the galleries with our curatorial and conservation staff to take a closer look at featured objects in our current exhibitions. Thursdays at 2 p.m. throughout April & May.
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Assistant Curator Carolyn Bauer will discuss narrative and snow/ice in 32 Degrees: The Art of Winter while focusing on the snow globes of Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz and Shelley Jackson’s“Snow.”
Thursday, April 14, 2016
“Hidden in Plain Sight” Associate Curator Katie Wood Kirchhoff will focus on Shelburne Museum’s outstanding collection of nineteenth-century American genre paintings by artists including Eastman Johnson and Edward Lamson Henry, housed in Webb Gallery.
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Conservator Nancie Ravenel will discuss her decoy radiography work in Birds of a Feather: Shelburne Museum’s Decoy Collection.
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Curator Kory Rogers explore the many dimensions of decoys in Birds of a Feather while focusing on carver Joel Barber.
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Carolyn Bauer will focus on digital art in 32 Degrees: The Art of Winter in particular, “January,” “MELT,” and “Shifting Ice.”
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Kory Rogers will lead a tour of changes in the Circus Building for 2016.
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Investigate the Tiffany furniture in the Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building with conservator Nancie Ravenel.
Thursday, May 26, 2016
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without” Join Katie Wood Kirchhoff in Hat and Fragrance Textile Gallery to learn more about stand-out quilts in Shelburne Museum’s collection constructed from repurposed materials like bed curtains, “cigar flannels,” and men’s suits.