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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Shelburne Farms

For our Architectural Conservation class, we spent two days out at the museum at Shelburne Farms learning all about how they care for their 60-odd buildings and the artifacts in them.  Mrs. Webb, who owned the property, was a collector of buildings and would buy them and move them to Shelburne to put her "collections" in -- she had hundreds of really creepy dolls.  The kinds you would expect to pivot and stare at you.  There are also a couple dozen carriages, a great selection of paintings, and an exhibit of time travel and steampunk related artifacts :)


Some of the grounds.


The time machine from The Time Machine -- better know in the Peterson household as the time machine from that Big Bang Theory episode.




The Ticonderoga -- a National Historic Landmark.



We even got to ride the carousel!!


Elephants made of reclaimed materials. 

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