Family Day & Children's Shopping

Saturday December 7 is Family Dayat Bennington Museum!Admission$5 per person for everyone!Whether you’re an adult, a member, a child, Santa Claus, or anyone else, admission is $5. Your $5 contributes to our annual year-end fundraising to support programming in the comin......More

Saturday December 7 is Family Dayat Bennington Museum!Admission$5 per person for everyone!Whether you’re an adult, a member, a child, Santa Claus, or anyone else, admission is $5. Your $5 contributes to our annual year-end fundraising to support programming in the coming year. Kids 17 and younger can get in free IF……they bring an item to donate to this year’s Family Day Donation recipient, P.A.V.E.  Suggested donations include: Personal Hygiene Products (toothpaste, shampoo, lotions, sanitary items, etc.) and Household Items (pillows, towels, washcloths). New and unopened items only, please. Children’s Shopping BoutiqueNow accepting donations!New and gently used items needed for the Children’s Shopping Boutique! Donations can be brought to Bennington Museum’s admissions desk any time the Museum is open. Items for men, women, children, and pets accepted. We do not accept clothing or books. Items in the sale are not priced higher than $12. We also accept donations of gift bags, wrapping paper, small boxes, tissue paper, ribbon, and bows. Check back for more information about Family Day and the Children’s Shopping Boutique.

Dreamscapes Gala

SAVE THE DATE for the winter fundraising event: DREAMSCAPES Dinner by Pangaea Music by Midnight Choir Silent Auction and more…

A Tale of Two Paintings: The Norman Rockwell Mystery

NOTE: This program will take place at the Monument Arts & Cultural Center44 Gypsy Lane, Bennington a Bennington Historical Society presentation In 1962, artist and cartoonist Don Trachte purchased the painting Breaking Home Ties from his friend and neighbor, Norman Rock......More

NOTE: This program will take place at the Monument Arts & Cultural Center44 Gypsy Lane, Bennington a Bennington Historical Society presentation In 1962, artist and cartoonist Don Trachte purchased the painting Breaking Home Ties from his friend and neighbor, Norman Rockwell. 40 years later, the painting was loaned to the Norman Rockwell Museum, but art critics began to raise concerns about its authenticity. Was this really a Norman Rockwell original, or could it be a carefully executed forgery? In this presentation, Don Trachte, Jr. shares the story behind the painting, the debate about its origins, and the shocking secret he and his brother found behind the walls of their father’s studio. Don is the eldest son of artist Donald Trachte. He was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1947. During his childhood in the 1950s in the wholesome environment of Arlington, Vermont, where he was raised as a neighbor and a friend of Norman Rockwell’s family, Don grew up with many of the people depicted in Rockwell’s paintings. He attended Arlington High School and Western State College of Colorado with a major in economics. His interest in science and geology led to expeditions to Antarctica and Greenland. Trachte has worked for several aerospace companies in sales/marketing and program management. He is currently cataloguing his father’s large collection of artwork and artifacts collected and give lectures about his experience of discovering an original Norman Rockwell painting behind a secret wall. Don lives in Bennington, Vermont. Supported by