Shelburne Museum

Be sure to visit the Shelburne Museum with its incredible collection of folk art and displays of the crafts, furnishings, art, and tools used in the early years of the 20^th century. The complex consists of 37 buildings on a 45-acre setting that is open from late May to late October. A visit to this museum is all but a must, if you can add this extra day to your itinerary. There is the Circus Parade Building, the Shelburne Railroad Station, the Ticonderoga (a side-wheeler steamship), the Stencil House displaying decorative wall stenciling, the Colchester Reef Lighthouse with its collection of marine art, the Stagecoach Inn, and the Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building with a re-creation of rooms from the Webbs’ Park Avenue apartment. With this small sampling of the contents of the Shelburne Museum, you can see that it would be easy to spend more than one day exploring even a portion of what’s here for your enjoyment. You can overnight either in the Shelburne area or nearby Warren or Waitsfield.