LOCATION: U.S. Route 7, Shelburne, Vermont  -- 7 miles south of Burlington

FOUNDED: 1947

FOUNDER: Electra Havemeyer Webb, pioneering collector of American folk art

DIRECTOR: Stephan Jost

CAMPUS SIZE: 45 acres

TOTAL EXHIBIT BUILDINGS: 39

HISTORIC EXHIBIT BUILDINGS RELOCATED TO THE MUSEUM: 25

ANNUAL VISITORS: 110,000

EMPLOYEES: 155, which includes 55 full-time, 100 seasonal. In addition there are 90 volunteers.

COLLECTION: Over 150,000 works, including American folk art, quilts and textiles, decorative arts, furniture, Impressionist paintings, American paintings and 17th- 20th century artifacts

COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS:

The painting collection includes masterpieces by Impressionists Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas, as well as over 400 18th -20th century American works including Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, Martin Johnson Heade and Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses.

The American folk art collection, which includes hundreds of trade signs, weathervanes and decoys, is among the finest in the world.

Shelburne Museum was among the first to exhibit quilts as works of textile art. The textiles collection, one of the largest in the country, includes some 800 quilts, coverlets, blankets and rugs.

The circus collection includes, posters, a rare 1902 Dentzel carousel and two hand carved miniature circuses. The Kirk Bros. miniature circus features 35,000 carved figures in three rings.

The 220-foot Ticonderoga, launched in 1906, is the last surviving steamboat of 29 that once plied the waters of Lake Champlain. It is a National Historic Landmark.

The Round Barn gallery and visitor center was built in 1901 in East Passumpsic, Vermont. The rare Shaker design barn was moved to the Museum in 1985-86. The upper segment of the silo was flown in by helicopter.