Sensory Friendly Mornings

This program supports visitors of all ages with varying social and sensory-processing needs. “Know Before You Go” materials, limited numbers of noise-cancelling headphones, fidget toys, and a break room will be available for visitor use. Free advance registration reques......More

This program supports visitors of all ages with varying social and sensory-processing needs. “Know Before You Go” materials, limited numbers of noise-cancelling headphones, fidget toys, and a break room will be available for visitor use. Free advance registration requested.   Support for Sensory Friendly Mornings is provided by:  

Museum Grounds, PCAE auditorium

Illustrated Lecture by Alexander Nemerov: “The Celestial Railroad”: Nathaniel Hawthorne and American Art

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Celestial Railroad,” published in 1843, offers a skeptical and satirical view of the era’s new means of transport. With a demon manning the engine, and a reassuring conductor named Mr. Smooth-It-Away describing the sights, the trai......More

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Celestial Railroad,” published in 1843, offers a skeptical and satirical view of the era’s new means of transport. With a demon manning the engine, and a reassuring conductor named Mr. Smooth-It-Away describing the sights, the train sets out from the City of Destruction, across the Valley of Despond, on its way to the Celestial City. In this illustrated lecture given by one of America’s leading art historians, UVM graduate Alexander Nemerov, see how Hawthorne’s views match—and do not match—the visions of the railroad in the paintings of American artists of his era. Alexander Nemerov is the author of many books on American art, most recently The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s, praised by the novelist Annie Proulx as “one of the richest books ever to come my way—deeply beautiful, achingly painful and astonishingly tender” and Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, named by Vogue one of its best books of 2021 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography. Nemerov is a professor of art history at Stanford University.  Lecture followed by audience Q&A. All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art, 1840-1955 will stay open until 7:30 p.m. so that attendees can explore the exhibition before or after the talk. Please note that the rest of the Museum will close at 5:00 pm. Free to Members or with Museum admission. REGISTER FOR LIVESTREAM Alexander Nemerov (photo credit: Suszi Curie McFadden)

Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education Auditorium

Final Day – 2024 Season

Final day of the regular 2024 season. Please join us for Winter Lights in November, December and January!

Museum Grounds, PCAE auditorium

Winter Lights

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The ......More

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga floating in a sea of light is among the most impressively illuminated structures, and the magical, other worldly Beach Woods, with its thousands of cascading firefly-like twinkling lights is a fan favorite. Whether walking through campus or on a special drive around tour, Winter Lights is an experience not to miss and a holiday tradition that delights all ages. New this season is an enhanced circus display with whimsical figures inspired by Shelburne’s collection and illuminated under a Big Top of lights. At the steamboat Ticonderoga, sea creatures modeled after weathervanes in the Museum’s collection will “float” on the water created by a sea of lights. The Museum’s Sawmill and adjacent Covered Bridge will be illuminated for the first time. If purchased online, tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children ages 3-17. Children under 3 are free. Tickets purchased at the door are $20 for adults and $15 for children. 

Museum Grounds, PCAE auditorium

Winter Lights

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The ......More

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga floating in a sea of light is among the most impressively illuminated structures, and the magical, other worldly Beach Woods, with its thousands of cascading firefly-like twinkling lights is a fan favorite. Whether walking through campus or on a special drive around tour, Winter Lights is an experience not to miss and a holiday tradition that delights all ages. New this season is an enhanced circus display with whimsical figures inspired by Shelburne’s collection and illuminated under a Big Top of lights. At the steamboat Ticonderoga, sea creatures modeled after weathervanes in the Museum’s collection will “float” on the water created by a sea of lights. The Museum’s Sawmill and adjacent Covered Bridge will be illuminated for the first time. If purchased online, tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children ages 3-17. Children under 3 are free. Tickets purchased at the door are $20 for adults and $15 for children. 

Museum Grounds, PCAE auditorium

Winter Lights

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The ......More

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga floating in a sea of light is among the most impressively illuminated structures, and the magical, other worldly Beach Woods, with its thousands of cascading firefly-like twinkling lights is a fan favorite. Whether walking through campus or on a special drive around tour, Winter Lights is an experience not to miss and a holiday tradition that delights all ages. New this season is an enhanced circus display with whimsical figures inspired by Shelburne’s collection and illuminated under a Big Top of lights. At the steamboat Ticonderoga, sea creatures modeled after weathervanes in the Museum’s collection will “float” on the water created by a sea of lights. The Museum’s Sawmill and adjacent Covered Bridge will be illuminated for the first time. If purchased online, tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children ages 3-17. Children under 3 are free. Tickets purchased at the door are $20 for adults and $15 for children. 

Museum Grounds, PCAE auditorium

Winter Lights

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The ......More

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga floating in a sea of light is among the most impressively illuminated structures, and the magical, other worldly Beach Woods, with its thousands of cascading firefly-like twinkling lights is a fan favorite. Whether walking through campus or on a special drive around tour, Winter Lights is an experience not to miss and a holiday tradition that delights all ages. New this season is an enhanced circus display with whimsical figures inspired by Shelburne’s collection and illuminated under a Big Top of lights. At the steamboat Ticonderoga, sea creatures modeled after weathervanes in the Museum’s collection will “float” on the water created by a sea of lights. The Museum’s Sawmill and adjacent Covered Bridge will be illuminated for the first time. If purchased online, tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children ages 3-17. Children under 3 are free. Tickets purchased at the door are $20 for adults and $15 for children. 

Museum Grounds, PCAE auditorium

Winter Lights

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The ......More

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga floating in a sea of light is among the most impressively illuminated structures, and the magical, other worldly Beach Woods, with its thousands of cascading firefly-like twinkling lights is a fan favorite. Whether walking through campus or on a special drive around tour, Winter Lights is an experience not to miss and a holiday tradition that delights all ages. New this season is an enhanced circus display with whimsical figures inspired by Shelburne’s collection and illuminated under a Big Top of lights. At the steamboat Ticonderoga, sea creatures modeled after weathervanes in the Museum’s collection will “float” on the water created by a sea of lights. The Museum’s Sawmill and adjacent Covered Bridge will be illuminated for the first time. If purchased online, tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children ages 3-17. Children under 3 are free. Tickets purchased at the door are $20 for adults and $15 for children. 

Museum Grounds, PCAE auditorium

Winter Lights

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The ......More

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga floating in a sea of light is among the most impressively illuminated structures, and the magical, other worldly Beach Woods, with its thousands of cascading firefly-like twinkling lights is a fan favorite. Whether walking through campus or on a special drive around tour, Winter Lights is an experience not to miss and a holiday tradition that delights all ages. New this season is an enhanced circus display with whimsical figures inspired by Shelburne’s collection and illuminated under a Big Top of lights. At the steamboat Ticonderoga, sea creatures modeled after weathervanes in the Museum’s collection will “float” on the water created by a sea of lights. The Museum’s Sawmill and adjacent Covered Bridge will be illuminated for the first time. If purchased online, tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children ages 3-17. Children under 3 are free. Tickets purchased at the door are $20 for adults and $15 for children. 

Museum Grounds, PCAE auditorium

Winter Lights

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The ......More

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga floating in a sea of light is among the most impressively illuminated structures, and the magical, other worldly Beach Woods, with its thousands of cascading firefly-like twinkling lights is a fan favorite. Whether walking through campus or on a special drive around tour, Winter Lights is an experience not to miss and a holiday tradition that delights all ages. New this season is an enhanced circus display with whimsical figures inspired by Shelburne’s collection and illuminated under a Big Top of lights. At the steamboat Ticonderoga, sea creatures modeled after weathervanes in the Museum’s collection will “float” on the water created by a sea of lights. The Museum’s Sawmill and adjacent Covered Bridge will be illuminated for the first time. If purchased online, tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children ages 3-17. Children under 3 are free. Tickets purchased at the door are $20 for adults and $15 for children. 

Museum Grounds, PCAE auditorium

Winter Lights Drive Around

A more accessible Winter Lights experience, Winter Lights Drive Around allows visitors to enjoy the captivating lights installations from the comfort of their vehicle. Visitors are lead on a predetermined route by a pace car driven by a museum employee. Happening every ......More

A more accessible Winter Lights experience, Winter Lights Drive Around allows visitors to enjoy the captivating lights installations from the comfort of their vehicle. Visitors are lead on a predetermined route by a pace car driven by a museum employee. Happening every half hour.  Only happening on select dates.  $65 per car.  

Museum Grounds, PCAE auditorium

Winter Lights Drive Around

A more accessible Winter Lights experience, Winter Lights Drive Around allows visitors to enjoy the captivating lights installations from the comfort of their vehicle. Visitors are lead on a predetermined route by a pace car driven by a museum employee. Happening every ......More

A more accessible Winter Lights experience, Winter Lights Drive Around allows visitors to enjoy the captivating lights installations from the comfort of their vehicle. Visitors are lead on a predetermined route by a pace car driven by a museum employee. Happening every half hour.  Only happening on select dates.  $65 per car.  

Museum Grounds, PCAE auditorium

Winter Lights

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The ......More

Winter Lights at Shelburne Museum is a brilliant and beautiful display of colorful light installations with musical moments throughout the Museum’s campus. Winter Lights delights visitors of all ages with imaginatively and wondrously bedecked buildings and gardens. The 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga floating in a sea of light is among the most impressively illuminated structures, and the magical, other worldly Beach Woods, with its thousands of cascading firefly-like twinkling lights is a fan favorite. Whether walking through campus or on a special drive around tour, Winter Lights is an experience not to miss and a holiday tradition that delights all ages. New this season is an enhanced circus display with whimsical figures inspired by Shelburne’s collection and illuminated under a Big Top of lights. At the steamboat Ticonderoga, sea creatures modeled after weathervanes in the Museum’s collection will “float” on the water created by a sea of lights. The Museum’s Sawmill and adjacent Covered Bridge will be illuminated for the first time. If purchased online, tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children ages 3-17. Children under 3 are free. Tickets purchased at the door are $20 for adults and $15 for children. 

Museum Grounds, PCAE auditorium

Ice Bar at Winter Lights

Shelburne Museum has mixed its fantastic Winter Lights extravaganza with spirits for the perfect night out with a twist that’s sure to spark the holiday spirit! This special evening of merriment features outdoor bars stocked with local spirits, wine, and beer along with......More

Shelburne Museum has mixed its fantastic Winter Lights extravaganza with spirits for the perfect night out with a twist that’s sure to spark the holiday spirit! This special evening of merriment features outdoor bars stocked with local spirits, wine, and beer along with snacks to savor from local food trucks, all within the magical wonderland of Winter Lights. This is a 21+ event.  Tickets are $90 for the general public and $75 for Members through December 6. Walk-up tickets purchased on the night of the event are $100 for the general public and $90 for Members. All tickets include tokens for food from local food trucks and drinks at the bars. Must be 21 or older to purchase tickets.

Museum Grounds, PCAE auditorium