Shelburne Museum
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The Shelburne Museum is a museum of art, Americana, and American architecture located in the town of Shelburne, in the U.S. state of Vermont. The museum's collection was begun by Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888–1960), one of the first people to recognize the applied and decorative arts of rural America as collectible.
Webb was a collector of American folk art who founded the Museum in 1947. She took the 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, the reconstructed doctor's office of noted Vermont physician D. C. Jarvis, a covered bridge, and the 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga, which is a U.S. National Historic Landmark.[1] Over 150,000 works are exhibited in a setting of 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which were relocated to the museum grounds.
Though having a strong focus on early American and rural work, collection is broad and includes Impressionism, folk art, quilts, textiles, decorative arts, furniture, American paintings, and artifacts.
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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.
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