Shelburne Museum

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Located in Vermont's scenic Lake Champlain Valley, Shelburne Museum is one of the nation's finest, most diverse and unconventional museums of art, design and Americana. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in a remarkable setting of 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the Museum grounds.

The Museum’s collection includes works by the great Impressionists Claude Monet, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas as well as a prized collection of folk art including trade signs, weathervanes and quilts. For further information, click: [1]

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Shelburne Museum's 400-plus 18th and 19th-century American quilts form the largest and finest museum collection in the country and are known internationally for their exceptional artistic quality. The collection features masterpieces from New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the Midwest, and the South. Styles include album, Amish, appliqué, chintz, crazy, pieced, white work, and whole cloth. Changing exhibitions each year display about 30 works, including recent acquisitions. Art of the Needle: 100 Masterpiece Quilts from the Shelburne Museum, a catalogue of Shelburne's finest pieces, is available at the Museum’s gift shop and through the online store.

The Store may be reached year-round by phone: (802) 985-3348 x3144 or e-mail: museum_store@shelburnemuseum.org