*This Museum IS NOT Participating in Museum Day 2011*
6000 Shelburne Road
Shelburne , VT 05482
802-985-3346
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One of the nation's finest, most diverse and unconventional museums of art, design and Americana in Vermont’s beautiful Lake Champlain Valley. Over 150,000 works exhibited in 39 exhibition buildings. Impressionist masters – Monet, Manet, Degas. Prized folk art –trade signs, weathervanes, quilts. 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga.
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Nature by Design – over 50 works including jewelry, furniture, lamps and stained glass. Full Throttle: Vintage Motorcycles, Custom Choppers and Racing Machines—explores the art of the motorcycle and the need for speed. Piecing Together the Past: The Quilts of Florence Peto – master quilter who influenced the museum’s collection and The Bright and Shining Light of Irreverence: Richard Saja and the Historically Inaccurate School—New York textiles designer channels his humor and sophisticated style into the Salon of Love and Horror
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