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Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Stewart-Swift Research Center

1. Entering Stewart-Swift Research Center from the Adèle Pierce Gallery of the Sheldon Museum.

2. Archival Assistant Taylor Rossini working in the public Reading Room on the NEH grant-funded project that was awarded to the Research Center in 2020.

3. Archival Vault where we store over 200 years of local newspapers, historic maps, plans and blueprints.

4. Staircase leading to our basement archival storage rooms.

5. Flat File room where we store artwork, large posters, ephemera, documents, maps and framed items, all filled to capacity.

6. Large ephemera, such as these political posters, are stored in these flat files.

7. Lucinda Cockrell, an RC volunteer and Sheldon Trustee, is working on one of the NEH-funded projects—a finding aid to the ephemera collection.

8. Entering climate-controlled main archival storage.

9. We store our most valuable manuscripts, documents, books, photographs and other materials in this climate-controlled room.

10. Rare books, atlases, and local imprints are stored on these shelves.

11. This room is utilized to its capacity with movable shelves to save space, and large framed posters and prints hang on the walls.

12. Archivist Eva Garcelon-Hart working in her office.

13. Inside the Mechanical Room. We recently upgraded our environmental system that monitors archival storage conditions to preserve archival documents for future generations.

Museum & Store Hours

2026 - 2027 Season: May 20, 2026 - January 2, 2027

Wednesday - Saturday: 10am - 4pm

One Park Street
Middlebury, Vermont 05753
(802) 388-2117

ADMISSION:

Adult: $10.00

Senior (65 and up): $5.00

Research Center: $10.00

Sheldon Members: Free

Youth (18 and under): Free

Student (with current ID): Free

Research Center Hours

Monday - Friday, by appointment only.

Please contact Archivist Elizabeth Vitek to schedule: archives@henrysheldonmuseum.org

The Sheldon Museum is thankful for the generous support of our Business Community!

Business Members:

Gold Level Members:

LMA Services, Inc.

Two Brothers Tavern

Silver Level Members:

Co-operative Insurance

Vermont Book Shop

Bronze Level Members:

A & W

Deppman Law

Joseph P. Carrara & Sons

County Tire Center

Fire & Ice Restaurant

Fyles Bros. Inc.

Laberge Insurance Agency

Marble Trail Financial

Middlebury Inn

Mister Ups

The Richards Group

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