Learn about the history of the area.

The Old Stone House Museum & Historic Village

The Old Stone House Museum and Historic Village opened in 1925, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The museum chronicles the history of Orleans County through its collections, exhibits, events and educational programs. A featured stop on Vermont’s African-American Heritage Trail, the museum tells the story of Alexander Twilight. Mr. Twilight was first African-American college graduate and state legislator in the United States and he built our namesake Old Stone House which he called Athenian Hall. Inside the museum’s thirty rooms are more than 75,000 objects that tell the story of Orleans County, Vermont. This includes furniture, paintings, tools, textiles, folk art and all the stuff of 19th Century life.

The Bread and Puppet Theatre & Museum

The Bread and Puppet Museum is a massive accumulation of the puppets, masks, paintings and graphics of the Bread and Puppet Theater, housed in a 150-year-old barn in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, 25 miles south of the Canadian border. It is one of the largest collections of some of the biggest puppets and masks in the world. It was created in 1974 when Bread and Puppet Theater moved to this former dairy farm after a residency at Goddard College, and before that close to a decade in New York City.

The Museum of Every Day Life

The Museum of Everyday Life is an ongoing revolutionary museum experiment based in Glover, Vermont. Its mission is a heroic, slow-motion cataloguing of the quotidian–a detailed, theatrical expression of gratitude and love for the miniscule and unglamorous experience of daily life in all its forms. We celebrate mundanity, and the mysterious delight embedded in the banal but beloved objects we touch everyday.

Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium

Founded in 1891 based on a Victorian “cabinet of curiosities” collected by Franklin Fairbanks, the Fairbanks Museum inspires wonder and curiosity about our natural world. With an eclectic collection of animals and artifacts, shells and fossils, meteorites and meteorology, plus much more! Home to the SunCommon Eye on the Sky Weather Center and the Lyman Spitzer Jr. Planetarium, Vermont’s only public planetarium. All this under the triumphant arch of our classic Victorian building, a cornerstone of St. Johnsbury’s Historic Main Street District.

Catamount Arts

Founded in 1975, Catamount Arts is the Northeast Kingdom’s primary source of arts and culture, presenting an extensive series of performances in the Art Center and at venues throughout Northern Vermont and New Hampshire. Catamount brings in nationally known touring artists as well as accomplished local performers.