Perry Center for Native American Art at Shelburne Museum

FAIN: CHA-291975-25

Shelburne Museum (Shelburne, VT 05482-0010)
Thomas Andrew Denenberg (Project Director: October 2022 to present)

The design and construction of the new Perry Center for Native American Art on the campus of the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont.

Shelburne Museum requests a $1,000,000 NEH Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant to support the creation of the Perry Center for Native American Art. The Perry Center, rooted in Museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb's early interests in Indigenous art, will transform the Museum's humanities infrastructure and visitor experience by adding a facility for the culturally appropriate interpretation and care of Indigenous material culture. The Perry Center will be a 9,500 SF state-of-the-art building designed by Adjaye Associates and surrounded by an intentional landscape designed by Reed Hilderbrand. The Center will house galleries, ritual spaces and demonstration facilities, as well as storage specifically designed to serve the needs of the communities from which the collections originated. Designed and realized in partnership with Indigenous voices, the Perry Center will reimagine the visitor experience at Shelburne Museum.