Bentley Snowflake Museum, Vermont

The Snowflake Museum in Jericho is one of the most remarkable museums in the state. It is located in the back rooms of the Old Mill Craft Shop, past the door for the Jericho Village Office. It features the work of Wilson Bentley (1861-1931) who lived his entire life in Jericho, and became fascinated with ice crystals, the building blocks of snowflakes. He made thousands of precise photomicrographs of crystals in an attempt to catalog as much of the spectrum of different snowflake forms as he could. He celebrated their beauty and diversity by making lantern slides and montages of his images, giving many away, in order to spread the joy they gave him. He once said "Oh for a thousand hands, a thousand cameras, to preserve more of this exquisite beauty so lavishly scattered over the earth."