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
This article appears in Seven Daysies 2015.


