SHELBURNE, Vt. (July 31, 2024)—Shelburne Museum’s popular holiday light spectacular, Winter Lights, returns this season with brilliant new light installations as well as perennial favorites.

Taking place over six weeks from late November through early January, 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 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.

A favorite holiday tradition that delights visitors of all ages, Winter Light opens on November 21 and runs through January 5. Tickets go on sale in September. A limited number of drive through tickets are available on specified evenings. Ice Bar, a festive event for adults, is scheduled on December 7.  See website for tickets and details.

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. Purchase tickets in advance on the museum’s website www.shelburnemuseum.org/winterlights.

Image credit: The majestic 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga is an iconic feature of Shelburne Museum’s 45-acre campus that floats in a sea of light for the museum’s 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, Grandma Moses, John Singleton Copley and many more.  For more information, please visit shelburnemuseum.org.