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Family Membership to the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium
- Item Number
- 162
- Estimated Value
- 75 USD
- Sold
- 25 USD to mikupp
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
The Fairbanks Museum was founded in 1889 by St. Johnsbury industrialist Franklin Fairbanks.
Inside our classic Victorian building, you’ll find a dazzling array of animals and artifacts, dolls and tools, shells and fossils, and much more! Take a trip through the cosmos in Vermont's only public planetarium. A full calendar of events, workshops, lectures and field programs invites everyone to explore the nature of our world.
When Franklin Fairbanks opened the doors to this Museum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont over a century ago, he invited all of New England to see beyond the horizon by bringing exquisite examples of natural science and beautiful artifacts from around the world to his home town. His "cabinet of curiosities" grew to include our National Historic Register building, a triumph of Victorian architecture, the cornerstone of St. Johnsbury's Victorian Main Street. Inside, our collections include some 175,000 objects includes:
- 75,000 natural science specimens (mounted birds, mammals, reptiles and fish; insects; nests and eggs; shells; fossils; rocks and minerals; herbarium)
- 95,000 historical artifacts (tools; toys; dolls; textiles; weapons; archival photographs and documents)
- 5,000 ethnological items representing Oceania, the Near East, Africa, Egypt, Japan and native North America.
The Lymann Spitzer Jr. Planetarium, Vermont's only public planetarium, opened in 1961 and continues to offer guided tours of the cosmos every day.
Since 1981, meteorologists at the Museum have produced Eye on the Sky weather programming that is broadcast daily by Vermont Public Radio.
Members enjoy
- FREE admission to the Museum
- FREE admission to the Lyman Spitzer Jr. Planetarium
- 10% discount at The Nature Store
- Invitations to events
- Discounts on public programs
- Local partner discounts
- Subscription to our calendar and newsletter
- FREE or reduced admission to museums through the Association of Science-Technology Centers
Your membership contribution at any level supports natural science learning at all ages through exhibits, public programs and events in one of Vermont's treasured architectural and historic gems.
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