How do museums keep textiles in their collections clean? Join us on Saturday, July 2 and learn the basics of textile cleaning. Our Collections Manager will explore the differences between wet and dry cleaning (spoiler: this is a little different than taking your suits to the cleaners) and then demonstrate the textile cleaning process. As …

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As part of our collection at the Museum, we are the home of a topsail from the Aladdin, a boat built in 1928 and used by the summer campers at Camp Dingley Dell on the Champlain Islands until 1939. Aladdin’s sails were unforgettably colorful and have their own unique tie-dye style design, a peek of which you …

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