Rutland Marble Museum

These immigrants settled in proctor and the surrounding areas making rutland county rich in cultural diversity.

Rutland marble museum.

The guide was interesting and informative and the museum has a huge amount of historical artifacts and equipment showing how the native americans originally harvested the syrup as well as the details of how much sap it takes to make the syrup. We toured the museum with a group and were delighted to find so much history and information about the harvesting of maple syrup. You won t want to miss these ten things at the vermont marble museum. My fav was the industrial workshop area and exhibits about the tools.

The museum s historical exhibits include early photographs samples of many products and is rich with information about the evolution of the marble industry. The variety of marble was amazing and we enjoyed the informative displays. Don t forget to look for proctor rocks throughout the museum garden. The vermont marble company was founded in 1880 by businessman and politician redfield proctor who served as the company s first president marble was quarried from several locations in the town of proctor then called sutherland falls and the surrounding communities of rutland west rutland and danby as railroads arrived in rutland and proctor the vermont marble company became one of the.

Norman rockwell museum a nationally recognized collection of norman rockwell s art established in 1976 which commemorates norman rockwell s vermont years and the entire span and diversity of his career 1911 1978. The museum is now closed for the 2020 season. This list of museums in vermont encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions including nonprofit organizations government entities and private businesses that collect and care for objects of cultural artistic scientific or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing museums that exist only in cyberspace i e virtual. Welcome to the vermont marble museum the largest marble exhibit in the world and a great source of pride for generations.

Proctor the former vermont marble museum and mill building has changed hands as part of a move that preservation officials hope will both restore the historic building and make it part of a townwide economic revitalization effort. The 92 000 square foot mill building and the vermont marble museum housed within it had been owned by martin and. A premier vermont attraction the vermont marble museum gift shop. We really enjoyed this museum and would visit again.