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Join Bennington Museum curator Jamie Franklin for a tour of Vermont Vice (on view through November 1, 2026). Jamie will share highlights of the exhibition and talk about how and why he chose what to include in this exploration of Vermont’s darker side. The talk is included with regular admission and registration is not required.

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Printmaking is fun and easy! We’ll explore a few ways to make prints using things like Q-tips, styrofoam, and plants. Dress for a mess for this inky, painty program! Museum ABCs is a collaboration between Bennington Museum and the Bennington Free Library, designed for children ages 3 to 5 and their adult companions. Siblings are welcome! Museum ABCs is FREE thanks to funding from The Bank of Bennington. Join us on the second Saturday of each month, April through November, for artwork, stories, a

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Part performance, part interactive sound experience, “Left to Their Own Devices” features a series of interactive musical mechanisms that invite and respond to audience interaction. Wander the Museum at your own pace, in your own path, and engage with the devices and performers. The Devices Tintinnalogia is a mechanical carillon fanned out around the new courtyard. The 8-bell device is inspired by the British tradition of change ringing, in which permutations of bells are rung out in a frenzy. E

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a Bennington Historical Society presentation In November 1926, Cecelia Gullivan, treasurer of the Cone Automatic Machine company of Windsor, Vermont, was brutally killed in her home. Local police quickly arrested Cone Automatic machinist John Winters on suspicion of the crime, and the trial that followed was sensational and swift. The author of Winters’ Time: A Secret Pledge, a Severed Head, and the Murder that Brought America’s Most Famous Lawyer to Vermont, shares the story. Jeffrey L. Amestoy

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Take a tour of the Bennington Centre Cemetery with Bennington Museum curator, Jamie Franklin. Have you ever wondered what stories lie in the cemetery behind the Old First Church? This guided tour starts in the Museum’s Early Vermont gallery, where you’ll see the headstone for Jedidiah Dewey, Bennington’s first pastor, carved by Frederick Manning, and learn about the earliest gravestones carved in Bennington. The tour continues in the Bennington Centre Cemetery, where Jamie will share the stories

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Bring in a favorite toy and we’ll talk about what it is made of. Then we’ll travel back in time to see what kinds of toys children played with long ago. Were they made of the same materials? Did they need charging? Were they fun to play with? Come find out! Museum ABCs is a collaboration between Bennington Museum and the Bennington Free Library, designed for children ages 3 to 5 and their adult companions. Siblings are welcome! Museum ABCs is FREE thanks to funding from The Bank of Bennington. J

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a Bennington Historical Society presentation Vermont is home to the third highest number of covered bridges in the United States, after Pennsylvania and Ohio. If you look at the number per square mile, Vermont ranks number one. There are five of them right here in Bennington County – three in Bennington alone! These bridges are part of Vermont’s identity, captured in paintings, the subject of ghost stories, and part of many of our daily commutes. In this presentation, local researchers will shar

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Pursuit of Happiness – Artist Reception Participating Artists: TBA Exhibition and Closed Bid Auction benefiting Bennington Museum and Regional Artists November 19 through December 31 (bidding ends on December 18) Preview the pieces and purchase at BUY IT NOW prices. Gala Ticket Holders and Museum Members are FREE, but please use the Get Tickets function below to RSVP. Not-Yet-Members: $5 LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PIECES (COMING SOON) Pursuit of Happiness: 250 years later 250 years ago, America declar

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Saturday December 5 is Family Day at Bennington Museum! Admission $5 per person for everyone! Whether you’re an adult, a member, a child, Santa Claus, or anyone else, admission is $5. Your $5 contributes to our annual year-end fundraising to support programming in the coming year. Kids 17 and younger can get in free IF… …they bring an item to donate to this year’s Family Day Donation recipient, Bennington County Coalition for the Homeless Suggested donation items include new and unopened: Backpa

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250 years ago, America declared its independence from Great Britain. The first sentence of the second paragraph from that declaration has become one of the most memorable and quoted lines in the English language: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The “Pursuit of Happiness” informs the theme of both the regional artist ex

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Ringing in the New Year isn’t just for Adults! Want to celebrate the arrival of 2027 but bedtime is at 8:00? No problem! Put on your party clothes and join us at Bennington Museum as we welcome in the “Noon” Year with music, party hats, noisemakers, sparkling grape juice, and the countdown to Noon! Bennington Museum’s annual Kids’ “Noon” Year’s Eve Celebration is on Thursday, December 31, 2026 from 11:15 am to 12:15 pm. Admission is $5/child. Adults are welcome to join the party at no charge. Re

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Register and Learn More About the CourseBennington Museum 250th Half Saturday, May 15, 2027 This 13.1 mile loop retraces the movement of John Stark and his troops from his headquarters at the Catamount Tavern prior to the Battle of Bennington. The Battle of Bennington was one of the most significant battles of the War and a moral victory that showed the Patriots that they could stand up to the British and German forces. This is a certified half-marathon course and will be chip timed. All funds r

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