Guiding Principles
The Vermont Granite Museum’s purpose is to engage, educate, and celebrate the heritage and current accomplishments of Vermont’s granite industry with a global audience. We will do so by acquiring and sharing collections, stories, and demonstrating skills that define the industry’s collective identity and guides its future.
Mission
To preserve, honor and showcase Vermont’s granite heritage and industry.
Vision
To create a vibrant gathering place that promotes understanding and respect for all individuals, cultures, skills, and businesses connected to Vermont's granite industry—both past and present—through hands-on experience, outreach and education.
Values
Our success is based on fulfilling our responsibility to our community, partners, and audience. Therefore we pledge to operate with integrity, respect, trust, cooperation, inclusiveness, commitment to excellence, and legal, ethical and fiscal responsibility.
Land Acknowledgement
The Vermont Granite Museum is located along the Stevens Branch of the Winooski River, a name that comes from the Western Abenaki word winoskitegw, meaning “river near the land of the wild onions.” Since time immemorial, the museum grounds served as a site of sustenance, gathering, and exchange among Indigenous peoples. The Western Abenaki are the traditional stewards of these lands and waters. We respect their connection to this region, especially to Vermont’s granite, which was used as a source of tools and spiritual connection.
The Vermont Granite Museum acknowledges that we have access to this land today because it was taken without consent from the Western Abenaki and that our ability to make decisions about its management rests on this historic injustice. We give thanks for the opportunity to share our property with others and the history and heritage connected to the region’s granite.