Shelburne Museum

The Shelburne Museum is an 1947 based arts and crafts, arts and outdoor museum 19 km south of Burlington on the main road 7 in Shelburne in the U.S. state of Vermont

The exhibition and collection dates back to the lifelong efforts of Electra Havemeyer Webb (1889-1960), the " merge " a total of 37 historical buildings here was as a place for a "normal" art museum and the place for a historically oriented open-air museum, where also about 80,000 arts and crafts items, in particular the so-called Quilts, are presented. There is also an exhibition of over 240 coaches.

Here all sorts of architectural styles found Vermont, such as the unusual mansard roof of the Colchester Reef Lighthouse from 1871 or a very rare round barn of 1901. A specially to excavated basin rests on the premises a pompous paddle steamer, the Ticonderoga " of 1906.

In the Webb Gallery American painting of the 19th and 20th centuries is issued ( Erastus Salisbury Field, Winslow Homer, Grandma Moses ). In the Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building, the New York apartment of museum founder has been re- built in the style of the 1930s. In the six areas important paintings by Rembrandt, Manet, Degas, Monet, Gustave Courbet, Jean -Baptiste Camille Corot and Daubigny are issued.