We visited the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium today in St. Johnsbury, VT. The museum has been operating since 1889, and is a bit of a museum piece itself. It shows what this type of museum would have been like a hundred years ago, with only small modifications to the displays. We also took in two sessions at the planetarium.

Taxidermied polar bear standing upright in a museum gift shop, with a stuffed gorilla toy in a white t-shirt and yellow hat seated on a bench below itRegina music box, the first made in the US, open wooden case showing perforated metal disc, displayed in a museum for 5 centsInterior of a Victorian natural history museum with a barrel-vaulted wood ceiling, taxidermy birds, glass display cases, and a mezzanine gallery.Taxidermied polar bear and Dall sheep mounted in a glass display case labeled Arctic Mammals at a natural history museum