Shelburne Museum
Perry Center for Native American Art

The Perry Center represents a significant initiative by the Shelburne Museum to collaborate with Indigenous Nations, scholars and culture bearers to present a model of stewardship for Indigenous creative culture and presentation to a broader audience.

The new building will be devoted to the exhibition and stewardship of the Perry Collection, over 200 Native American masterworks predominately from Plains, Prairie, and Southwest peoples, adding to the Native American materials already stewarded by Shelburne Museum.

Designed in collaboration with Two Row Architects of Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation Canada and Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architects, the building, its siting and landscape are referential to traditional Native American structures. The design process has been informed and guided by input from representatives of the four Bands of the Abenaki based in Vermont and from other Tribal members nation-wide who participated in a series of pre-design Talking Circles.