SHELBURNE, Vt. (August 28, 2024)— Tickets to Shelburne Museum’s popular holiday light spectacular, Winter Lights, go on sale September 9, with special early access tickets for museum members, September 3-8. From November 21 through January 5, Shelburne Museum lights its campus aglow in a spectacular visual display of lighting accompanied throughout by musical selections.

Winter Lights returns this season with brilliant new light installations as well as perennial favorites. Visitors to Shelburne Museum are invited to a magical evening experience strolling Shelburne’s grounds to view the museum’s iconic landmarks bedecked in thousands of colorful lights. Favorite stops along the way include the historic 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga and its companion 1871 Lighthouse as well as the enchanted twinkling forest of Beach Woods and beautiful butterflies in Bostwick Garden.

New this season is an enhanced circus display with whimsical figures inspired by Shelburne’s collection and illuminated under a Big Top of lights. At the steamboat Ticonderoga, sea creatures modeled after weathervanes in the museum’s collection will “float” on the water created by a sea of lights. The museum’s Sawmill and adjacent Covered Bridge will be illuminated for the first time.

If purchased online, tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children ages 3-17. Children under 3 are free. Tickets purchased at the door are $20 for adults and $15 for children. Become a member and receive early access tickets on September 3-8. Purchase tickets on the museum’s website at https://shelburnemuseum.org/visit/winter-lights/.

 

Image credit: Shelburne Museum’s 45-acre campus adorned with lights for the Winter Lights extravaganza. Photography by Adam Silverman.

Hi-resolution images available HERE.  

About Shelburne Museum
Founded in 1947 by trailblazing folk art collector Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888–1960), Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, is the largest art and history museum in northern New England and Vermont’s foremost public resource for visual art and material culture. The Museum’s 45-acre campus is comprised of 39 buildings including the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education and Webb Gallery featuring important American paintings by Andrew Wyeth, Winslow Homer, Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses, John Singleton Copley and many more. For more information, please visit shelburnemuseum.org.