Shelburne Museum
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Shelburne Museum is a diverse and unconventional museum of art, Americana, and American architecture. Impressionist paintings, folk art, quilts, textiles, decorative arts, furniture, American paintings, and artifacts are on view.
Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888–1960) was a collector of American folk art who founded the Museum in 1947. She took the imaginative step of relocating historic buildings from New England and New York to Shelburne, Vermont in which to display the Museum's holdings. These include houses, barns, a meeting house, a schoolhouse, a lighthouse, a jail, a general store, a covered bridge, and the 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga [1]. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in a setting of 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which were relocated to the Museum grounds.
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- Shelburne Museum website.
- The Influences Behind the Shelburne Museum at Saint Michael's College.
- "Electra's Cultural Jewel at Shelburne Museum" in Vermont Woman Magazine, by Heather Michod, 2004.
- 'Collector's gene' yields a trove of Americana: Electra Webb made Shelburne Museum her monument in The Boston Globe, By Sonja Hakala, September 12, 2004.
