Family Artmaking

Young artists and their families are invited to create art inspired by special exhibitions at the Museum. Bring your imagination, and we’ll bring the supplies, guidance, and enthusiasm! Topic: Portraits, Varied & Alive: New and Rarely Seen Treasures from the Collection.......More

Young artists and their families are invited to create art inspired by special exhibitions at the Museum. Bring your imagination, and we’ll bring the supplies, guidance, and enthusiasm! Topic: Portraits, Varied & Alive: New and Rarely Seen Treasures from the Collection. Registration required. Free for Members or with Museum admission. Family Programs are generously supported by PC Construction.

Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education Classroom, VT, United States

Varied & Alive Curator Tour

Join curators Kory Rogers and Katie Wood Kirchoff for guided tours of Varied and Alive: New and Rarely Seen Treasures from the Collection, a curatorial tour de force, with objects on view that include folk art paintings, circus posters, porcelain, textiles, toys, and tr......More

Join curators Kory Rogers and Katie Wood Kirchoff for guided tours of Varied and Alive: New and Rarely Seen Treasures from the Collection, a curatorial tour de force, with objects on view that include folk art paintings, circus posters, porcelain, textiles, toys, and trade signs—some beloved favorites, others not seen in decades. Limited to 15 participants.

Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Colgate Gallery

Shelburne Summer Nights

Activities for all ages, live music from The Tenderbellies, food trucks Taco Truck Allstars, Sisters of Anarchy Ice Cream, Pizza 44, Jilib Jiblets, Maharaja Spice, Waterfront Catering Bar and Grill, access to Museum buildings, lawn games, and community! Shelburne Summer......More

Activities for all ages, live music from The Tenderbellies, food trucks Taco Truck Allstars, Sisters of Anarchy Ice Cream, Pizza 44, Jilib Jiblets, Maharaja Spice, Waterfront Catering Bar and Grill, access to Museum buildings, lawn games, and community! Shelburne Summer Nights are generously sponsored by an anonymous foundation, our Members, and donors to the Annual Fund.

Museum Grounds, PCAE auditorium

Vermont Symphony Orchestra: America 250

Gates open at 5:30 pm for picnickingConcert begins at 7:30 pm To celebrate the United States’ 250th birthday, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra hits the road with Summer Festival Tour: America 250, bringing music to communities across the Green Mountain State. There’s noth......More

Gates open at 5:30 pm for picnickingConcert begins at 7:30 pm To celebrate the United States’ 250th birthday, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra hits the road with Summer Festival Tour: America 250, bringing music to communities across the Green Mountain State. There’s nothing quite like a balmy July evening in the Vermont outdoors, especially when the state’s orchestra performs beloved favorites like Morton Gould’s American Salute (based on “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”), Aaron Copland’s Hoe-Down from Rodeo, a lively selection of music by John Williams and John Philip Sousa, and more. Music Director Andrew Crust invites you to bring a picnic blanket and relax under sunny skies to enjoy this cherished annual tradition. Each location features the VSO’s Musical Petting Zoo before the performance, where audiences can explore a variety of orchestral instruments. This 4th of July concert concludes with a fireworks display! 

Museum Concert Field, 6000 Shelburne Rd, Shelburne, VT, 05482, United States

Mindful Yoga

Engage in a mindful, art-based meditation and tour of an exhibition, followed by an all-level yoga class. Registration required.

Museum Grounds, PCAE auditorium

Close Looking: History, Context and the Creative Process

Engage in guided close looking activities and discussion followed by curator sharing of contextual, artistic, and historical background on selected works. This session’s focus: Ogden Pleissner’s Terrestrial Oils. Pleissner Gallery. Limited to 20 participants.

Pleissner Gallery, 6000 Shelburne Rd, Shelburne, 05482, United States

Curator Tour - On Point: Needlework from the Garthwaite Family Collection

Join Katie Wood Kirchoff, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen Curator of American Decorative Arts, for a guided tour of On Point: Needlework from the Garthwaite Family Collection, with extraordinary examples of schoolgirl artworks made in Vermont, ranging from samplers, silk-on-......More

Join Katie Wood Kirchoff, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen Curator of American Decorative Arts, for a guided tour of On Point: Needlework from the Garthwaite Family Collection, with extraordinary examples of schoolgirl artworks made in Vermont, ranging from samplers, silk-on-silk embroideries, and sewing boxes to memorials, family registers, theorem paintings, and more. Free for Members or with Museum admission.

Hat & Fragrance Textile Gallery, 6000 Shelburne Rd, Shelburne, 05482, United States

Varied & Alive Curator Tour

Join curators Kory Rogers and Katie Wood Kirchoff for guided tours of Varied and Alive: New and Rarely Seen Treasures from the Collection, a curatorial tour de force, with objects on view that include folk art paintings, circus posters, porcelain, textiles, toys, and tr......More

Join curators Kory Rogers and Katie Wood Kirchoff for guided tours of Varied and Alive: New and Rarely Seen Treasures from the Collection, a curatorial tour de force, with objects on view that include folk art paintings, circus posters, porcelain, textiles, toys, and trade signs—some beloved favorites, others not seen in decades. Limited to 15 participants.

Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Colgate Gallery

Sensory-Friendly Mornings

Experience the Museum in a calm, gentle environment designed for visitors of all ages with varying social and sensory processing needs. Free. Registration recommended.   Family Programs are generously supported by PC Construction.  

Pizzagalli Center & Museum Grounds

Storytime and Artmaking for Families

Join us as we read a fun and whimsical selection of books about art, creativity, community, and wonder. Ead storytime will conclude with an artmaking activity. Drop-in program. Free for Members or with Museum admission

Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education Classroom, VT, United States

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Ben & Jerry’s Concerts on The Green at Shelburne Museum Gates 5:30pm, Show 7pm All ages, Children 12 and under are FREE (+ do not need a ticket)! Glass, pets, & outside alcohol are prohibited. Blankets, low chairs, and food are permitted. ......More

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Ben & Jerry’s Concerts on The Green at Shelburne Museum Gates 5:30pm, Show 7pm All ages, Children 12 and under are FREE (+ do not need a ticket)! Glass, pets, & outside alcohol are prohibited. Blankets, low chairs, and food are permitted. All events are rain or shine. All dates, acts, and ticket prices subject to change without notice. 

Museum Concert Field, 6000 Shelburne Rd, Shelburne, VT, 05482, United States

Family Artmaking

Young artists and their families are invited to create art inspired by special exhibitions at the Museum. Bring your imagination, and we’ll bring the supplies, guidance, and enthusiasm! Topic: Nature and Landscapes, Big River: Ogden Pleissner in Wyoming. Registration re......More

Young artists and their families are invited to create art inspired by special exhibitions at the Museum. Bring your imagination, and we’ll bring the supplies, guidance, and enthusiasm! Topic: Nature and Landscapes, Big River: Ogden Pleissner in Wyoming. Registration required. Free for Members or with Museum admission. Family Programs are generously supported by PC Construction.

Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education Classroom, VT, United States

Curator Tour - Norman Rockwell: At Home in Vermont

Join Carolyn Bauer, Marna and Chuck Davis, Curator of American Art, for a guided tour of the exhibition, Norman Rockwell: At Home in Vermont, which explores how America’s beloved illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) crafted an idealized vision of Vermont—nostalgic, r......More

Join Carolyn Bauer, Marna and Chuck Davis, Curator of American Art, for a guided tour of the exhibition, Norman Rockwell: At Home in Vermont, which explores how America’s beloved illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) crafted an idealized vision of Vermont—nostalgic, resilient, and mythic—during his most prolific years in Arlington (1939–1953). In his works, Rockwell offered a nation battered by the Great Depression and weathering World War II a reassuring image of American life: orderly, self-reliant, and picturesque. As Arlington-based author Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) wrote, “Most Americans are afraid of poverty or social inferiority or change or politics…but it is true [that in Vermont] a whole stateful of people have no ground for apprehension.” Limited to 20 participants.

Museum Grounds, PCAE auditorium

SOLD OUT: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUELET’S GO GET ‘EM TOUR Support: JJ Grey & MofroBen & Jerry’s Concerts on The Green at Shelburne Museum Gates 5:30pm, Show 7pm All ages, Children 12 and under are FREE (+ do not need a ticket)! Glass, pets, & outside alcohol are prohibited.......More

TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUELET’S GO GET ‘EM TOUR Support: JJ Grey & MofroBen & Jerry’s Concerts on The Green at Shelburne Museum Gates 5:30pm, Show 7pm All ages, Children 12 and under are FREE (+ do not need a ticket)! Glass, pets, & outside alcohol are prohibited. Blankets, low chairs, and food are permitted. All events are rain or shine. All dates, acts, and ticket prices subject to change without notice.

Museum Concert Field, 6000 Shelburne Rd, Shelburne, VT, 05482, United States