Shelburne Museum
Shelburne Museum is a museum in Vermont, at a modelled elevation of 71 m. Browns Mountain stands 704 m to the southeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Steamboat Ticonderoga, a attraction 0.2 miles away. Lake Champlain Byway - Vermont runs past it.
The story
Shelburne Museum is a museum of art, design, and Americana located in Shelburne, Vermont, United States. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the museum grounds. It is located on 45 acres (18 ha) near Lake Champlain. Impressionist paintings, folk art, quilts and textiles, decorative arts, furniture, American paintings, and an array of 17th- to 20th-century artifacts are on view. Shelburne is home to collections of 19th-century American folk art, quilts, 19th- and 20th-century decoys, and carriages. Electra Havemeyer Webb was a pioneering collector of American folk art, and founded Shelburne Museum in 1947. The daughter of Henry Osborne Havemeyer and Louisine Elder Havemeyer, important collectors of Impressionism, European and Asian art, she exercised an independent eye and passion for art, artifacts, and architecture celebrating a distinctly American aesthetic. When creating the museum, she took the step of collecting 18th and 19th century buildings from New England and New York in which to display the museum's holdings, relocating 20 historic structures to Shelburne. These include houses, barns, a meeting house, a one-room schoolhouse, a lighthouse, a jail, a general store, a covered bridge, and the 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga. In Shelburne Mrs. Webb sought to create "an educational project, varied and alive." Shelburne's collections are exhibited in a village-like setting of historic New England architecture, accented by a landscape that includes over 400 lilacs, a circular formal garden, herb and heirloom vegetable gardens, and perennial gardens.
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Dates from 1947.
Wikidata Q2277827, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- On the Lake Champlain Byway - Vermont
- 6.7 mi off the Lakes to Locks Passage, National
- 15.4 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 18.6 mi off the Mad River Byway
Overlooks nearby
- LaPlatte River Falls · 1 mi
- Granite Steps · 8 mi
- Waterfront pause place 3 · 8 mi
- Winooski River Walk · 8 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Shelburne Parade Ground: 0.4 mi
- Shelburne Town Beach: 1.9 mi
- Baycrest Park: 3.8 mi
- Overlook Park: 4.5 mi
- Szymanski Park: 4.6 mi
- Lone Tree Hill: 1.9 mi
- Pheasant Hill: 2.8 mi
- Spruce Ridge: 3.5 mi
- Mutton Hill: 3.9 mi
- Pease Mountain: 4.6 mi
- Shelburne Bay Park: 2.3 mi
- East Woods Natural Area: 5.3 mi
- Wheeler Nature Park: 5.5 mi
- Lewis Creek Hill Natural Area: 6.2 mi
- Mount Philo State Park: 6.6 mi
- Jaime Two Coats: 0.5 mi
- shelburne mill at the falls: 0.8 mi
- World's Tallest Filing Cabinet: 5.8 mi
- Grace Goodhue Coolidge: 7.1 mi
- Queen Mountain Club: 7.1 mi
- MacDonough Point: 9.4 mi
- Powerline A-Line: 10.8 mi
- The Wall: 10.8 mi
- The Palisades: 12.6 mi
- Barn Rock Cliff: 13.2 mi
- Craig's: 5.2 mi
- ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain: 7.2 mi
- Fleming Museum of Art: 7.6 mi
- Adsit Cabin: 7.8 mi
- Ethan Allen Homestead Museum: 9.3 mi
- Formal Garden: 2.8 mi
- Community Garden: 5.4 mi
- South Burlington Community Gardens: 5.5 mi
- Childrens Garden: 5.7 mi
- Community Garden: 5.8 mi
- LaPlatte River Falls: 0.8 mi
- Winooski Falls: 8.4 mi
- Huntington Gorge: 13.0 mi
- Alice Falls: 15.3 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 15.3 mi
- Shelburne Beach: 1.9 mi
- Oakledge Cove: 5.6 mi
- Blanchard Beach: 5.8 mi
- Lakeside Beach Access: 6.0 mi
- Blodgett Beach: 6.4 mi
- Steamboat Ticonderoga: 0.2 mi
- Vermont Teddy Bear: 0.8 mi
- Children’s Farmyard: 1.8 mi
- Shelburne Farms Cheesemaking: 1.8 mi
- Spirit Ethan Allen: 7.2 mi
- Strömkarlen (River Troll): 0.7 mi
- Pomerleau Neighborhood Park: 5.5 mi
- Kelis the Afronaut: 5.9 mi
- Reverence: 6.7 mi
- Hyperbolic Paraboloid: 6.9 mi
- Finney Crossing Grills and Picnic Tables: 8.3 mi
- AuSable Chasm Picnic Area: 15.3 mi
- Footbridge Park: 21.1 mi
- Dock Street Landing and Waterfront Park: 24.7 mi
- Powerhouse Park: 24.7 mi
- Shelburne Museum Covered Bridge: 0.3 mi
- Holmes Creek Covered Bridge: 3.7 mi
- Big Eddy Covered Bridge: 23.9 mi
- Pulp Mill Covered Bridge: 24.2 mi
- Rest Area I-89 (South Bound): 8.7 mi
- Rest Area I-89 (North Bound): 8.7 mi
- Big Spring: 24.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.5 miles of Shelburne Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Browns Mountain | SE 125° | 704 m | 14.3 mi |
| Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain | W 278° | 659 m | 14.0 mi |
| Shaker Mountain | SE 125° | 654 m | 13.7 mi |
| Huckleberry Hill | ENE 73° | 503 m | 14.2 mi |
| Bigelow Mountain | WNW 294° | 501 m | 12.8 mi |
| Red Rock | ESE 119° | 493 m | 10.8 mi |
| Lincoln Hill | ESE 119° | 492 m | 10.4 mi |
| Texas Hill | E 99° | 481 m | 8.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:27 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:09 | 19:57 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:14 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:27 | 15:29 | 16:17 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 20 | 21 | 31 | 44 | 56 | 66 | 71 | 69 | 62 | 49 | 38 | 28 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Willsboro 1 N, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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Day trips start here
- Shelburne · 1 mi
- Charlotte · 4 mi
- Burlington · 7 mi
- Essex · 7 mi
- Hinesburg · 7 mi
- South Burlington · 7 mi
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