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Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium 

1302 Main St.
St. Johnsbury, VT 05819
Northeast Kingdom
802-748-2372
www.fairbanksmuseum.org

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The Fairbanks Museum is Vermont’s Smithsonian. Founded in 1889 by St. Johnsbury industrialist and amateur naturalist Franklin Fairbanks, it was an outgrowth of his own personal “cabinet of curiosities”: 175,000 items, as it turned out, that included more than 2500 dolls, 55,000 archival photographs and North America’s largest collection of stuffed hummingbirds. Don’t leave without seeing John Hampson’s patriotic bug art. Once apprenticed to inventor Thomas Edison, Hampson created nine works of art composed entirely of colorful beetles and moths. The Fairbanks displays seven of his creations, including portraits of George Washington and Abe Lincoln.
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