Rokeby Museum — Attraction in Ferrisburgh

Super beautiful and well kept museum. Gorgeous grounds and fun activities for kids of all ages (including bingo and other search and find activities). Loved the displays and the interactive atmosphere. The immersive stories and all the audio buttons were super fun for the kids. I felt like admission was steep (kids 5+ cost $8 and adults are $10) for our family it was $44 just for the day! (plus, the little kids just don't know how to appreciate it the same way and made us feel rushed) but then we were able to just pay $6 more dollars and get a family pass for the whole year with unlimited visits so that actually made the whole thing feel worth it. We will definitely go up just to have a picnic one day and snowshoeing/cross country skiing on the trails. Now that we have the pass we can visit the grounds even when the museum is closed so that's really neat. They don't have any secret rooms or anything for hiding but they are a super neat representation of period farming, what the slaves who escaped did with their freedom, and explores the natural processes of what happens to land over time when it is left abandoned and how to know what was there originally. I'm looking forward to visiting with my kids again. (The main building is only open til Oct 25 and then it will be closed...

I would not suggest this historic site. My tour guide had no idea what she was talking about and provided a revisionist form of American history. I'm not sure if she was a slavery apologist and gets a high off of distorting history or just incompetent and confused at telling the factual history but she claimed the underground railroad was a sensationalized myth, no one used the term until long after the Civil War, there weren't any hiding spaces in homes, white people were largely uninvolved in the movement, and a series of other falsehoods. Even when I asked what she meant by her statements she doubled down and maintained her stance. Others on the tour said if I would have talked out, they would have followed. A woman cried after the tour because she said she's never heard anyone deny the underground railroad existed before. I visit plenty of historic sites but this was most disappointing and I just couldn't bring myself to return to this site with my family as part of their New...

This place fuels the fires of conscience, if well developed, or, Lights those fires, if not. If you CAN think, it's manna. If you can't, it's no news. If you've at all struggled, it's inspirational. It's a light in a dark place. It's down to earth real, and, at the same, somethings only the soul can feel. It's both history in the making, and profound lessons, still ripe for the taking...IF... you are attentive. For humanity almost never learns the lessons of history. And stories ring the same and rhyme, over thousands of years... Great staff. Lots to see. Lots to identify with for...