On this visit, we will look at the colors and patterns Jessica Park loves and uses in her paintings on view in Enthusiasms: Personal Paintings by Jessica Park.

The history of the Bennington Volunteer Fire Departments.

Join Us as we Celebrate the Opening of Bennington Collects. Reservations required. Read more.

Let's peek inside the doctor's bag and learn about how staying healthy has changed during the last 100 years.

In his film, “Rage for Oder,” Sacks meets and tells the story of Jessica Park – an artist who lives with autism. It explores his encounter with her which offers profound insights into the nature of autism. On Saturday, May 5 at 2:00 pm, his movie “Rage for Order” screens at the Bennington Museum in the Ada Paresky Education Center. Join us in welcoming Tony Gengarelly, presenter, who for the past ten years has been the director of the Jessica Park Project.

On Saturday, May 12 from 10 am to 5 pm admission to the Bennington Museum is free for all visitors. Join us for a day of Celebrating Bennington Collects. Among the activities planned for you is a visit by the Vermont Arts Exchange Art Bus where you can become creative with arts and crafts. Stepping into the Museum, art and history are all around, and "creative collisions" can be found around almost every corner.

Join us at 3:00 pm to welcome Vermont artist Edward Koren as he opens his exhibition Thinking About Extinction and Other Droll Things: Recent Prints and Drawings by Edward Koren. This exhibition features recent etchings and lithographs by Edward Koren, who is best known for his iconic cartoons of furry humans published in The New Yorker magazine.

Exploring Bennington's "Other" Cemeteries Meet at 2:00 PM in front of the Bennington Museum. The cost is $15. This tour is re-scheduled from April 15. Please call Bill Morgan at 802-440-8075 to make your reservation or confirm one you have already made. There are still a few seats available.

National Trail Days, Take a hike in The Shires. June 2, 2018

From the earliest published song, ‘Green Mountain Farmer” (1798), though 1850 temperance ballads, Civil War era songs to those about Vermonters Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Dewey, and Jim Fiske, singer and researcher Linda Radtke joined by pianist Arthur Zorn bring Vermont history to life.

Join us at 3:00 pm to welcome Vermont artist and state representative Bill Botzow as he opens his exhibition CAMBIUM (Into the Woods): Works by Bill Botzow. This opening is free and open to the public. Talk to the artist and hear his perspective on "...attention, noticing, touching, gathering, ordering, responding and how it has led to sculptures and drawings that I hope in some way honor that liveliest, hidden place where the creative grows.”

Joe Hall presents “Bygone Days: Tales from Bennington’s Past"

It's time. The Moses Mission, if you choose to accept it, will bring you and your teammates to a total of 7 regional sites, significant to the life story of the artist, Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses.

Presented by Berkshire Country author Elizabeth Kolbert and Vermont Artist and contributor to The New Yorker, Edward Koren THINKING ABOUT EXTINCTION explores her book "The Sixth Extinction" and its impact on Koren’s work in creating curious skeletal creatures in a landscape of ruined Gothic and Classical architecture.

Vermont Arts Exchange (VAE) and Bennington Museum have combined forces to bring two VAE camps to the beautiful Hadwen Woods and George Aiken Wildflower Trail of the Museum.

Campers utilize the beautiful Hadwen Woods to explore, design, and create dwellings and shelters.

Join Curator of Bennington Museum Jamie Franklin for a Gallery Talk on "Crash to Creativity: The New Deal In Vermont." Learn how the years 1934-1944 were not only some of the darkest days in Vermont (and our Country), but also a time of immense creativity and innovation in the Green Mountain State. Artists, architects, writers, construction workers, and civil employees, whose work was funded through Federal New Deal programs, helped to document the state’s history, record the conditions of contemporary life during the Depression and recovery, and build infrastructure that continues to benefit us today.

In his music and his writing, Woody Guthrie chronicled the devastation of the 1930s dust storms and the Great Depression, championing the dispossessed as well as economic and social injustice. Many of his songs such as “This Land is Your Land” have become American classics, and he has influenced subsequent songwriters, among them Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.