Museum ABCs: Trail Tale

Enjoy another story on the George Aiken Wildflower Trail, plus the company of special guest presenter Michael Clough from the Southern Vermont Natural History Museum.

Free

Museum ABCs: Cupcake Collection

Cupcakes! Yummy Cupcakes. Explore some of the objects used to make cupcakes and then create your own yummy sweet.

Free

Museum ABCs: Tick Tock Tall Clocks

This month we will take a look at the museum's tall case clocks. Learn about the days of the week, and become familiar with the parts of a clock and what they tell us.

Free

Music at the Museum – Taconic Chamber Players

Join us on Saturday, December 16 at 2:00 p.m. for a FREE concert at Bennington Museum’s Paresky Wing. Escape the hectic pace often found this time of year as you sit back and enjoy A Musical Interlude performed by the Taconic Chamber Players featuring Joana Genova on violin, Deanna Baasch on violin, Ariel Rudiakov on the viola, and Nathaniel Parke on the cello. This varied program includes music by Vivaldi and Bach as well as Duke Ellington, and many others.

Free

Kicking off the Year Has Never Been Better and it’s FREE

The Bennington Museum invites everyone to Community Day on February 3 when admission is FREE and the “Creative Collisions” among the galleries are explosive. Explore the permanent exhibitions including the newest gallery Early Vermont and the new paintings on view in the Grandma Moses Gallery. The changing exhibitions are varied, very exciting. Showcasing art, history, and innovation these exhibitions include Southwestern Vermont Health Care – A Century of Caring, Enthusiasms: Personal Paintings by Jessica Park, and the Annual Student Art Exhibition.

Free

Artist’s Reception with Jessica Park

Join artist Jessica Park on Saturday, February 3 from 2:30 to 4:30 in the Regional Artists Gallery for a reception celebrating her exhibition Enthusiasms: Personal Paintings by Jessica Park. This reception is free and open to the public.

Free

Museum ABCs: The Artist in You

The artist in you! Looking at the Student Art Show, explore what the artist in you will create.

Free

Music through the Centuries for Flute and Harp

Save the Date because this is one performance you will not want to miss. Music at the Museum is pleased to present Sue Ann Kahn performing on the flute, and Susan Jolles on the harp. This engaging program has performances that range in style from a sonata by J.S. Bach to the premiere of a new Sonatina by Bennington composer Allen Shawn, plus a flute solo composed by Lionel Nowak. Additional music by Henry Cowell, Toru Takemitsu, and Jean Francaix. The free concert is made possible by Alison Nowak and Robert Cane. Admission to the museum galleries is not included.

Free

Museum ABCs: Enthused About Color and Pattern

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.

Free

Spring Opening Reception

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

$25 – $35

Museum ABCs: Healthy Me

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

Free

Tattoo 3

Back by popular demand, it’s Bennington Museum’s one-night-only, living exhibition of tattoo body art entitled Tattoo 3. See some of the area’s best tattoo art and meet some of the artists who create it. This exhibition features live models showing their art and sharing their stories.

Rage for Order Screens at Bennington Museum

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.

Free

Community Day Celebrating Bennington Collects

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.

Free

Meet Artist Edward Koren

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.

Free