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Rokeby Museum

Posts by Rokeby Museum:
  • 2025 Exhibit
  • Quaker Samplers from the Rokeby Collection
  • Video: A Virtual Presentation—“This needle work of mine doth tell… Samplers of the Vermont Sampler Initiative”
  • Video: A Virtual Conversation with Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Julie Anderson
  • Video: A Virtual Conversation with former Executive Director Lindsay Varner
  • Staff & Volunteer Spotlight — Meet Sabrina Kirchner
  • Uncovering the History of Rokeby’s Textile Collection
  • Words have power — the opening of Rokeby’s new main exhibition, “Seeking Freedom”
  • Ongoing Main Exhibit
  • Video: The Movement Towards Historical Recovery: Researching & Reckoning with New England’s Role in Colonization & Slavery
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Visitors to Rokeby Museum have been #inspiredbynature! Our seasonal exhibit, "Inspired by Nature: The Women Artists of Rokeby," gives visitors the chance to express their own creativity by drawing from a collection of natural objects.

These are just a few of the drawings our visitors were kind enough to leave behind, showcasing a variety of styles. Stop by and give it a try yourself!

#museum #Vermont #art #stilllife #nature #Creativity

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Jun 21

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Visitors to Rokeby Museum have been #inspiredbynature! Our seasonal exhibit, "Inspired by Nature: The Women Artists of Rokeby," gives visitors the chance to express their own creativity by drawing from a collection of natural objects.

These are just a few of the drawings our visitors were kind enough to leave behind, showcasing a variety of styles. Stop by and give it a try yourself!

#museum #Vermont #art #stilllife #nature #Creativity

On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to take charge of the recently arrived federal troops. With the might of the Union Army behind him, Granger issued General Order No. 3, enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation and freeing the enslaved within the state. One year later, freedmen in Texas gathered to mark the anniversary of their liberty in a celebration that would eventually be known as Juneteenth.

Rokeby Museum will celebrate Juneteenth all day with free admission and an open house from 11:00 - 3:00! Docents will be on site to answer any questions as you explore the Robinson home where Freedom Seekers once stayed. Come stop by!

#juneteenth #FreedomDay #history #blackhistory #Museum #equality

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Jun 18

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On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to take charge of the recently arrived federal troops. With the might of the Union Army behind him, Granger issued General Order No. 3, enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation and freeing the enslaved within the state. One year later, freedmen in Texas gathered to mark the anniversary of their liberty in a celebration that would eventually be known as Juneteenth.

Rokeby Museum will celebrate Juneteenth all day with free admission and an open house from 11:00 - 3:00! Docents will be on site to answer any questions as you explore the Robinson home where Freedom Seekers once stayed. Come stop by!

#juneteenth #FreedomDay #history #blackhistory #Museum #equality

Rokeby Museum marks the end of another amazing Sheep & Wool Day. Thanks to everyone who came out, and a special thank you to all our participants and volunteers for making yesterday a success! We hope to see you all again next year.

@handsandheartfarm @vermontfolklife

#museum #history #artsandcrafts #sheep #wool

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Jun 15

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Rokeby Museum marks the end of another amazing Sheep & Wool Day. Thanks to everyone who came out, and a special thank you to all our participants and volunteers for making yesterday a success! We hope to see you all again next year.

@handsandheartfarm @vermontfolklife 

#museum #history #artsandcrafts #sheep #wool

Sheep and Wool Day is live! We`ll be here until 3:00, so flock on over🐑! There will be treats, instruments, and of course, sheep!

#Vermont #sheep #FamilyFun #instruments #treats

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Jun 14

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Sheep and Wool Day is live! We'll be here until 3:00, so flock on over🐑! There will be treats, instruments, and of course, sheep!

#Vermont #sheep #FamilyFun #instruments #treats

Tomorrow`s the day! Rokeby Museum will be holding Sheep and Wool Day this Saturday from 12:00 - 3:00. There will be crafts, treats, instruments, spinning and rug-hooking demonstrations, a history tour, a working printing press, and, of course, live sheep!

A very special thanks to @handsandheartfarm for bringing their wooly friends and providing the material for our wet felting activity at the craft table. Don`t miss it!

#museum #art #history #farmlife #sheep #wool #crafts #familyfun ,#food #Vermont

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Jun 13

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Tomorrow's the day! Rokeby Museum will be holding Sheep and Wool Day this Saturday from 12:00 - 3:00. There will be crafts, treats, instruments, spinning and rug-hooking demonstrations, a history tour, a working printing press, and, of course, live sheep!

A very special thanks to @handsandheartfarm for bringing their wooly friends and providing the material for our wet felting activity at the craft table. Don't miss it!

#museum #art #history #farmlife #sheep #wool #crafts #familyfun ,#food #Vermont

The Rokeby spotlight continues with another Sheep and Wool Day participant: The Instrument Petting Zoo w/ @vermontfolklife! The IPZ is a collection of instruments that are installed at special events with the express purpose of letting young people play them.

The Instrument Petting Zoo includes a wide variety of traditional acoustic instruments: fiddles, ukuleles, sarangi, guitars, banjos, mandolins, autoharps, cellos, basses, also drums, kazoos, maracas, recorders, thumb pianos, tin whistles, and more. Stop by Rokeby Museum this Saturday, 12:00 - 3:00 and give them a try!

#museum #art #music #instruments #familyfun #festival #vermontfolklifecenter

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Jun 12

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The Rokeby spotlight continues with another Sheep and Wool Day participant: The Instrument Petting Zoo w/ @vermontfolklife! The IPZ is a collection of instruments that are installed at special events with the express purpose of letting young people play them.

The Instrument Petting Zoo includes a wide variety of traditional acoustic instruments: fiddles, ukuleles, sarangi, guitars, banjos, mandolins, autoharps, cellos, basses, also drums, kazoos, maracas, recorders, thumb pianos, tin whistles, and more. Stop by Rokeby Museum this Saturday, 12:00 - 3:00 and give them a try!

#museum #art #music #instruments #familyfun #festival #vermontfolklifecenter
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