Bennington Museum

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Bennington Museum collects, interprets, and celebrates the creativity of southern Vermont, eastern New York State, northwestern Massachusetts, and southern New Hampshire in all its forms, from the 18th century to the present. By connecting its visitors with real objects of art and history, and by challenging them with complex ideas, the museum excites the imagination, inspires innovation, and brings delight.

The Museum is the proud caretakers of the largest public collection of paintings by the great American folk artist Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses who lived in nearby Eagle Bridge, NY, as well as the defining collection of 19th‐century Bennington stoneware. “Creative Collisions” are becoming popular at the museum, so we also have on view works by major 20th‐century modernists such as Milton Avery, Paul Feeley, Rockwell Kent, and Jules Olitski, and works by contemporary and outsider artists such as Gayleen Aiken, Duane Michals, Jessica Park, and Jarvis Rockwell.

The permanent collection includes superb furniture and paintings from Vermont, one of the oldest “Stars and Stripes” in existence – the famous Bennington Flag, with its arch of 13 stars encircling the number “76” – the renowned 1863 Jane Stickle Quilt featuring an astounding 5602 pieces, and a 1924 Martin Wasp Touring Car, the only automobile manufactured in Vermont. All are fine examples of art, history, and innovation that represent the creative mind at work, the spontaneous expression of the human spirit. Included among the Museum’s fourteen galleries are Early Vermont History, Gilded Age Vermont, Bennington Modernism, Grandma Moses Gallery, Vermont Pottery, Bennington Battle and Early Firearms Gallery, Works on Paper and the Church Gallery.

The Museum is complemented by its Research Library, Hadwen Woods and George Aiken Wildflower Trail, and the Grandma Moses Schoolhouse.

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