Vermont History Museum
Pavilion Building (next to the State House), Montpelier

Our museum's permanent exhibit, "Freedom and Unity: One Ideal, Many Stories," opened in March 2004 and won a national award. The multimedia exhibit, which represents Vermont's history from 1600 to the present, fills 5,000 square feet in the Pavilion Building in Montpelier. Visitors walk through time and experience a full-sized Abenaki wigwam, a re-creation of 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. To view the online introduction to the exhibit, click here.Vermont History Museum in Montpelier

Current Exhibits

• Freedom & Unity
• Grace Brigham agricultural murals

Museum Information

Click here for hours and admission information, and directions.

Educational groups are admitted free, and group tours can be arranged.

The museum shop offers some products from the Historical Society's online store — a wide variety of books, gifts, maps, and games — as well as Vermont Life products.

Online Exhibits

Along with the collections available for viewing at the Vermont History Museum, the Vermont Historical Society has also digitized various artifacts and images, and created galleries for viewing on the Internet. Please visit the Online Exhibits page to browse these galleries.

The Vermont History Museum
was chosen "Best Place to
Time-Travel" by Yankee
Magazine Editors in their
"Best of New England" choices.