Pizzigalli Center at Shelburne Museum Credit: Courtesy of Shelburne Museum

Shelburne Museum — Art gallery? More like art galleries. Thirty-nine buildings — including historic houses, barns, a lighthouse and the steamboat Ticonderoga — exhibit the American folk art for which this museum is famous. The New York Times calls the place a “Disneyesque New England fantasyland.”

Other Finalists

  • BCA Center
  • Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center
  • The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery
  • West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park

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