Vermont History Museum

Photo: License:

Housed in the Pavilion building next to the state capital. The Vermont History Museum boasts a collection of 20,000 artifacts including fine arts, crafts, household goods, clothing, agricultural tools from the pre-contact period to present.

The Vermont History Museum's award-winning permanent exhibit, "Freedom and Unity: One Ideal, Many Stories," allows visitors to walk through 350 years of Vermont history (1600s�present). Opened in March 2004, the multimedia exhibit fills 5,000 square feet (460 m2) of the Pavilion building in Montpelier.

Visitors move through a visual timeline and experience such recreations as a full-sized Abenaki wigwam, the Catamount Tavern where Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys gathered, a railroad station complete with a working telegraph and a WWII living room furnished with period music and magazines.