Shelburne Museum — Founded in 1947, the Shelburne Museum has more than 150,000 items in its permanent collection and is famous for its folk art and impressionist paintings. Though most of the buildings are only open seasonally, the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education is year-round.

Other Finalists

  • ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain
  • Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium
  • Montshire Museum of Science
  • University of Vermont Fleming Museum of Art

This article appears in Seven Daysies 2016.

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