Vermont Beekeeping Museum and
Discovery Center, Inc.
Update and Requests
December 31, 2025
THE VERMONT BEEKEEPING MUSEUM and DISCOVERY CENTER, Inc. (VBMDC) is now a reality. The organization was established to honor the late, beloved Bill Mares.
We are now a 501(c)(3) non-profit, educational Vermont corporation. We are independent but we maintain a close working relationship with the Vermont Beekeepers Association.
We have two requests.
1. We are looking for historic Vermont beekeeping museum display items such as skeps, boxes, frames, related woodenware, smokers, hive tools, clothing, gloves, extracting equipment, bottling equipment, jars and labels, bottles, and bulk containers to show how things evolved. We are also interested in beekeeping documents, photographs, records, meeting minutes, journals, books, published information, or awards will be appreciated as well as Vermont beekeeping ephemera. We are especially interested in donations with documentation, authentication, or personal knowledge of the background of the item.
If you are willing to donate or loan items, please send a list describing each item, its history, owner(s), and photographs so we can review the items for possible display once we have a physical facility.
2. We are also looking for a place to display our anticipated collection of Vermont beekeeping objects and archives, on the past, present, and future of beekeeping in Vermont. Ideally, this location would be easily accessible and in a highly visible location with room for visitors and space to store our collections. This location should be available either for a few years or for a longer duration as we develop our exhibits. We’d also take suggestions on who we might contact to discuss possible locations.
A more comprehensive update is available on the VBA website.
Responses to these two requests may be directed to:
Ross Conrad, Chair, VBMDC, dancingbhoney@gmail.com, (802) 349-4279
Thank you!
