Rokeby Museum


  • Rokeby offers craft day and free entry

    Rokeby offers craft day and free entry

    Happy holidays from Rokeby Museum! Free entry and craft-day on Friday, Dec. 19.

  • Rokeby Museum appoints new Executive Director

    Rokeby Museum appoints new Executive Director

    Revell joins Rokeby from the Valdez Museum & Historical Archive in Alaska, where she spent fourteen years as Interim Executive Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs.

  • Rokeby Museum nets a $1 million donation

    Rokeby Museum nets a $1 million donation

    “This extraordinary act of generosity confirms what many of us believe. Rokeby’s message is not only vital — it’s enduring.”

  • Community forum: What fool bakes a pie in 90-degree heat for strangers?

    Community forum: What fool bakes a pie in 90-degree heat for strangers?

    This isn’t an article about museums or history. It’s about something simpler. Something sweeter. It’s about pie.

  • Rokeby Museum opens its doors for two free Saturdays

    What was the Undergroud Railroad? Find out at Rokeby Museum on Free Winter Saturdays. Saturday, Feb. 15, and Saturday, March 15, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

  • Experience a 19th-Century séance at Rokeby

    Returning to Rokeby Museum Oct. 25 and 26 is the annual spiritualism play. This year’s play, “Spirits of Rokeby: Voices from the Summer Land,” features a new script…

  • Varner steps down from Rokeby Museum

    Varner steps down from Rokeby Museum

    Rokeby Museum’s Executive Director, Dr. Lindsay Varner, announced her departure effective Oct. 31. Starting Nov. 1, the current Visitor Services Coordinator, Joan Gorman, will serve as Interim Director,…

  • Rokeby Museum to host pie and ice cream social

    Having a great day is as easy as pie at Rokeby Museum’s annual Pie & Ice Cream Social this Sunday, August 11, from 1 to 4 p.m.

  • Volunteers needed for Rokeby Bat Census Team

    Volunteers needed for Rokeby Bat Census Team

    Each July the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife deploys community scientists to conduct a census of established bat colonies.

  • Rokeby Museum opens with new main exhibit

    Rokeby Museum opens with new main exhibit

    “Seeking Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Legacy of an Abolitionist Family” immerses visitors in the history of the Underground Railroad and the struggle for freedom.

  • Music with the Museum returns to Rokeby

    Music with the Museum returns to Rokeby

    To raise funds for Rokeby Museum’s Education Department, the organization will host the second annual Music with the Museum on Thursday, May 30, at 6 p.m., at the…

  • Rokeby Museum fund drive continues

    Rokeby Museum fund drive continues

    Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh is in the midst of its annual fund drive, with a goal of $40,000. 

  • A round-up of events at Rokeby Museum

    A round-up of events at Rokeby Museum

    The last day to visit Rokeby during its regular opening hours will be Oct. 14. This will be the last opportunity to see the guest-curated exhibition “Finding Hope…

  • Art, advocacy and abolition: a panel discussion at Rokeby

    Art, advocacy and abolition: a panel discussion at Rokeby

    Rokeby Museum’s current exhibit, “Finding Hope Within,” featuring the artwork of incarcerated artists and poets in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maine, will inform the context for a discussion among…

  • Astronomy at the Rokeby with the Vermont Astrological Society

    Gather at Rokeby Museum with the Vermont Astronomical Society to view the night sky on Saturday, Sept. 16, at 8:30 p.m.

  • Actors needed for ‘Spirits of Rokeby’

    Spirits is a short-form, environmental theater production drawing from historic records of 1850s séances held by the Robinson family in Ferrsiburgh, and other local historic accounts.