Vermont History Museum

Vermont History Museum

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.

Location

109 State St,
Montpelier, Washington County
Vermont, USA

Getting There

There are several ways to reach Montpelier by public transportation:

Bus: Greyhound Lines and Vermont Transit Lines provide bus service to Montpelier. The bus station is located at 29 Main Street, about a 10-minute walk from the museum.

Train: Amtrak provides train service to Montpelier Junction, about 5 miles outside of Montpelier. From there, visitors can take a bus or taxi to the city center.

Local bus: Green Mountain Transit provides local bus service in the Montpelier area. The Montpelier Transit Center is located at 1 Taylor Street, about a 5-minute walk from the museum.

Once in Montpelier, visitors can easily walk to the Vermont History Museum from the transit center or take a local bus or taxi.

Nearby Airports

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