Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum

A spectacular holiday tradition — Winter Lights!

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga floating in a sea of light is among the most impressively illuminated structures, and the magical, other worldly Beach Woods, with its thousands of cascading firefly-like twinkling lights is a fan favorite. Whether walking through campus or on a special drive around tour, Winter Lights is an experience not to miss and a holiday tradition that delights all ages.

Last season there was 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 “floated” on the water created by a sea of lights. The Museum’s Sawmill and adjacent Covered Bridge were illuminated for the first time. 

The Museum Store is open on Winter Lights days from 11 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.  

Museum Store at Diamond Barn is open on Winter Lights nights from 4:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Weathervane Cafe is open on Winter Lights nights from 4:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. and will be serving light snacks and hot chocolate provided by Lake Champlain Chocolates.