Museums / Art

• Bennington Museum/Grandma Moses in Bennington, Vermont. Where Grandma Moses lived and painted. The Bennington Museum is known as the trusted caretaker of the largest collection of Grandma Moses art and memorabilia available to the public. Its galleries evoke the rich heritage of Vermont with collections of paintings to pottery to historical objects and fine furniture. 75 Main St. Bennington, VT 05201. Call 802-447-1571 or visit www.benningtonmuseum.com
   

• The American Museum of Fly Fishing, home to the world’s largest collection of angling art and angling-related items, brings the history of fly fishing alive for anglers and others. On Historic Route 7A in Manchester, Vermont. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed on major holidays. $5 for adults and $3 for children ages 5 to 14.
   

• Green Mountain College Fine Arts Center -- Poultney, VT. Call 802-287-8398.
   

• Norman Rockwell Exhibition -- where Norman Rockwell's models are your tour guides, at the Arlington Gallery in Arlington, hometown of Norman Rockwell 1939-53, on historic Route 7A. 45 minutes south.
   

• The Robert Frost Stone House Museum -- Frost's house is in Shaftsbury, Vermont on Historic Route 7A, a short distance from his gravesite in Bennington. The museum features galleries in the house where Frost lived and the rooms where he wrote some of his finest poetry. His fourth book was published during this period and for it, he won his first Pulitzer Prize. Frost wrote "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" on a hot June morning in 1922 at the dining room table. The grounds include stone walls, birch trees, fields and woods and even some of Frost's original apple trees. Call 802- 447-6200.
   

• Shelburne Museum – World-famous multi-acre huge museum beside Lake Champlain in Shelburne, Vermont. Visit www.shelburnebuseum.org. About a hour and a half drive north.
   

• Southern Vermont Arts Center -- Vermont’s Premier Home for The Visual and Performing Arts on 407 acres. West Road, Manchester, VT. The Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum exhibition space in 2006 presents From Cassatt to Wyeth: American Masterworks from the Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Memories of World War II: Photographs from the Archives of the Associated Press and Rosita Marlborough – Recent works: After Morocco. The Arkell Pavilion features in 2006 The Manhattan Transfer, Bucky Pizzarelli and Family, jazz cabaret singer Jane Monheit and the Tommy Dorsey Orehstra, Walter Cronkite, Marine Colonel and author of Thieves of Baghdad, Mathew Bogdanos. The Yester House Gallery features major annual and invitational exhibitions. Also, the Madeira Education Center for art classes and workshops year round, the Sculpture Garden throughout the grounds, the Boswell Botany Trail, the Garden Café and the Gift Shop. the Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, 12-5 p.m. Admission: non-members $8, students $3, members and children under 13 free. Phone: 802-362-1405, www.svac.org. Box office 802-362-2522. 30 minutes south.
   

• The Sterling and Francine Clarke Art Institute – Noted private collection. In Williamstown, Massachusetts. Visit www.clarkart.edu. An hour and a quarter south.
   

• Vermont Institute of Natural Science -- Woodstock, Vermont. www.vinsnaturecenter.org. An hour and a quarter north.