What to do and see in Green Mountains, Green Mountains: The Best Museums

An engaging museum both for children and for adults who want to feel like kids again. The permanent exhibit includes many fully furnished doll houses, as well as many dolls, fairy houses, puppet theaters and puppets and vintage toys for boys such as trains, planes, tin soldiers and circus wagons. The museum shop sells dollhouse kits and dollhouse furniture, as well as dolls. Hours are Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m., or by appointment. Admission $2 for children over three and $4 for adults.

Historic home of Robert Lincoln, only child of President and Mary Todd Lincoln to survive to adulthood. The estate has beautiful gardens, restored 1903 wooden Pullman palace car, goat farm and cheesemaking facility, 12+ miles of walking trails, teaching greenhouse and cross-country skiing in winter.

An exhibit focusing on Norman Rockwell's years in Arlington, 1939-1953. Rockwell used over 200 local models for his works. The exhibit displays reproductions of many of his works as well as stories about many of the townspeople who were his models.

Bennington Museum - a Museum of Art, History, and Innovation. Home to the largest public collection of Grandma Moses paintings and 19th-century Bennington Pottery, it also presents Battle of Bennington memorabilia and weaponry, and Gilded Age Vermont, highlighting the industrial and cultural innovation of the late 1800s to the 1920s including the 1924 Wasp Touring Car, paintings by William Morris Hunt, and works by Lewis Comfort Tiffany. Bennington Modernism Gallery celebrates the art created from the early 1950s through the mid-1970s by a group of avant-garde artists working in and around Bennington who led the nation in artistic thought and innovation. Artists may include Pat Adams, Paul Feeley, Helen Frankenthaler, Patricia Johanson, Vincent Longo, Kenneth Noland, and Jules Olitski. Early Vermont Life Gallery presents life in Vermont from the time when the earliest European settlers arrived in 1761 to the early 1800s. 14 galleries. Changing exhibitions. Museum Store & more.

Founded more than 50 years ago by a group of local artists, the cultural center includes a beautiful Georgian mansion that showcases changing exhibits, the Arkell Pavillion, a performing arts center and the Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum, which houses the center's permanent collection of more than 700 paintings. Join us on our beautiful 100-acre campus at the foot of the Taconic Mountains. Reimagine the arts and connect with SVAC today!

The American Museum of Fly Fishing is the steward of fly fishing history, traditions, and practices and promotes the conservation of its waters.

The Bennington Center for the Arts continually exhibits the work of many of the finest representational artists from around the country. In addition to the artwork in the Center's temporary exhibitions, all of which is for sale, The Bennington also has a very impressive permanent collection of Native American art (Navajo rugs, pots, katsinas, paintings of and by Native Americans) as well as bird carvings by Master Carver Floyd Scholz. The Bennington is also home to the Covered Bridge Museum. Visitors of all ages enjoy the exhibits and videos and use the information gathered to better enjoy their travels through these famous structures as they travel through Vermont.