Maritime and Naval Museums: Vermont, USA

Basin Harbor

Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

RR #3 Box 4092,
Basin Harbor,
Vergennes, VT 05491.

Telephone: +1 802 475 2022
E-mail: lcmm@sover.net
WWW: http://www.lcmm.org

Opening hours: May 4 — October 18, daily 10:00-17:00.

A Revolutionary War museum. Includes a replica of the gunboat Philadelphia from 1776, now preserved at the Smithsonian, Washington, DC. There are also numerous small boats exhibited.

Shelburne

The Shelburne Museum

Route 7,
Shelbourne, VT 05482.

Telephone: +1 802 985 3346

Opening hours: May 15 — October 15, daily 09:00-17:00; October 15 — May 15, Sunday 11:00-16:00.

Museum ship: SS Ticonderoga, a passenger steamer

The museum is housed in the Colchester Reef lighthouse. The Ticonderoga is dry-docked on the lawn.

Updated 1998-10-02 by Lars Bruzelius

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