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Saturday October 3 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT

Civil War Quilts - More than needles, thread and fabric

Diana O’Brien remembers her Greek father, a WW2 veteran, asking her brother if he needed a handkerchief as her brother headed out the door to Vietnam in 1966. Aside from language issues, her father had no words for the fear and love he felt for her brother. The handkerc......More

Friday October 9 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

Vermont Vice Gallery Talk

Join Bennington Museum curator Jamie Franklin for a tour of Vermont Vice (on view through November 1, 2026). Jamie will share highlights of the exhibition and talk about how and why he chose what to include in this exploration of Vermont’s darker side. The talk is inclu......More

Saturday October 10 10:30am - 11:30am EDT

Museum ABCs: Preschool Printmakers

Printmaking is fun and easy! We’ll explore a few ways to make prints using things like Q-tips, styrofoam, and plants. Dress for a mess for this inky, painty program! Museum ABCs is a collaboration between Bennington Museum and the Bennington Free Library, designed for c......More

Saturday October 10 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT

Left to Their Own Devices

Part performance, part interactive sound experience, “Left to Their Own Devices” features a series of interactive musical mechanisms that invite and respond to audience interaction. Wander the Museum at your own pace, in your own path, and engage with the devices and performers. The Devices Tintinnalogia is a mechanical carillon fanned out around the new courtyard. The 8-bell device is inspired by the British tradition of change ringing, in which permutations of bells are rung out in a frenzy. Every 15 minutes a piece is performed like clockwork. Extant is an immersive installation about celestial navigation amidst rising tides it uses the sextant the artist’s grandfather used to sail to Tahiti. The sextant, a navigation tool, is based on imprecise science, relying on where you thought you once were to predict your current position. As the audience uses the device, a sound collage gradually loses itself, as it tries to locate the viewer’s place. Heterodyne is inspired by the inventor Leon Theremin’s dance platform called the Terpsitone, and his 1936 visit to Bennington to demonstrate the device. Heterodyne translates movement into sound, tracking one person’s motion and mapping it onto a projected doppelganger, using technology akin to the theremin, the contactless instrument named for its inventor. Comb is a work inspired by the silent instruments in the Museum’s Church Gallery. As the audience wanders the room, lasers and sonar devices create a collage based on what the devices might have sounded like back then, based on the shape-note hymn Evening Shade. In Hypnagogia electric muscle stimulants create involuntary movements in three dancers, conveyed through wireless belts. These tics are generated by the sound itself and are part of an improvisation between the intentional and the unexpected. Hypnagogia is a transitional state between sleep and wakefulness, in which people experience hallucinations and uncontrolled tics. In Barrel Roll a tiny device constructed out of a music box and a yoga block perceives movement. Playing with the trope of a music box twirling a porcelain ballerina, each participant turns the barrel and creates a kaleidoscopic collage out of each tune. Nicholas Brooke creates music across disciplines, from collages of recordings with live theater, to home-built instrumentariums inspired by gamelan. Brooke’s works have been featured across the U.S. and Europe, at Mass MoCA, HERE, Merkin Hall, Baryshnikov Arts Center, the MATA Series, and the Spoleto Festival, and have been performed by the Bang-on-a-Can All-Stars, Talujon, Speculum Musicae, Orchestra 2001, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the Nash Ensemble of London, and Sekar Anu. He has received Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation awards, and multiple residencies including Djerassi, MacDowell, Bogliasco, and Bellagio. Originally a clarinettist, he is also an avid instrument builder, and researcher of early musical automata. During a two-year fellowship to Central Java, he studied gamelan and collaborated on musical projects with Javanese composers, dancers, and visual artists. He holds degrees in music composition and philosophy from Oberlin, and a Ph.D from Princeton. He teaches at Bennington College. Music at the Museum programs are presented at no charge, thanks to our generous sponsors,Alison Nowak and Robert Cane

Sunday October 18 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

Winter's Time

a Bennington Historical Society presentation In November 1926, Cecelia Gullivan, treasurer of the Cone Automatic Machine company of Windsor, Vermont, was brutally killed in her home. Local police quickly arrested Cone Automatic machinist John Winters on suspicion of the......More

Sunday October 25 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

Bennington Centre Cemetery Tour

Take a tour of the Bennington Centre Cemetery with Bennington Museum curator, Jamie Franklin.Have you ever wondered what stories lie in the cemetery behind the Old First Church? This guided tour starts in the Museum’s Early Vermont gallery, where you’ll see the headston......More

Saturday November 14 10:30am - 11:30am EST

Museum ABCs: Toys of Long Ago

Bring in a favorite toy and we’ll talk about what it is made of. Then we’ll travel back in time to see what kinds of toys children played with long ago. Were they made of the same materials? Did they need charging? Were they fun to play with? Come find out! Museum ABCs ......More

Sunday November 15 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST

Bridges of Bennington County

a Bennington Historical Society presentation Vermont is home to the third highest number of covered bridges in the United States, after Pennsylvania and Ohio. If you look at the number per square mile, Vermont ranks number one. There are five of them right here in Benni......More

Tuesday November 17 4:30pm - 6:30pm EST

Pursuit of Happiness- Artist Reception

Pursuit of Happiness – Artist ReceptionParticipating Artists:TBA Exhibition and Closed Bid Auction benefiting Bennington Museum and Regional Artists November 19 through December 31 (bidding ends on December 18) Preview the pieces and purchase at BUY IT NOW prices. Gala ......More

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