This website began as Connecticut MuseumQuest in 2006 and only later became CTMQ. Regardless, museums were and are the core of what I do. And fortunately for all of us, Connecticut has a ton of museums - two tons if you define them loosely like I do! Also, see: CTMQ Town Guides, everything to do in the state … [Read more...]
454. Barber Hill School House
Home of the Barberians East Windsor (Google Maps location) August 10, 2019 I think we’d all agree that this nearly empty little one-room schoolhouse doesn’t deserve its own page here on CTMQ. After all, it’s smack dab in the middle of the East Windsor Historical Society array of historical museums and coulda … [Read more...]
450. Schoolhouse No. 3 (RIP)
A, B, C! School - house 3! R-I-P! Avon (Google Maps location) February 10, 2019 This museum will remain RIP for the foreseeable future. In the world of historical museums, progress can be quite slow. Glacial even. (Although, with global climate change, the term “glacial” doesn’t quite mean what it used to mean.) … [Read more...]
452. Lincoln Financial Sculpture Walk
Honestly, Abe, Take a Shower East Hartford & Hartford (Google Maps location) May 28, 2019 I don't want to make this more confusing than necessary. Riverfront Recapture is an organization that seeks to reclaim the land along the Connecticut River in Hartford and East Hartford. A reconfiguration of the horrible … [Read more...]
419. Farmington Valley Arts Center
Fusing Art and History Avon (Google Maps location) May 19, 2019 When I wrote about Avon's nearby Climax Road, it reminded me about the Farmington Valley Arts Center. I had poked my head in a few times over the years for various reasons, one being my friend Eina Rieger had an exhibition there for her work with … [Read more...]
448. Agonist Gallery
The Agonist and the Ecstasy East Windsor July 10, 2019 I often struggle when it comes to these little art galleries. Struggle with whether or not they deserve a hallowed spot on the CTMQ Connecticut museums list. After all, if you make it, fame and riches will assuredly come your way. If you don’t, well, you … [Read more...]
356. Burnham Blacksmith Shop
I’m Plane Nuts East Hartford (Google Maps location) June 10, 2017 Ahhh, yes, June 10, 2017. A fine day that was. Another year, another fantabulous Connecticut Open House Day! An annual event that I treat like the holiday it should be. I went to a bunch of places in the Connecticut River Valley, but found myself … [Read more...]
252. Fort Stamford
It's a Fort. In Stamford. Stamford (Google Maps location) July 25, 2013 Fort Trumbull, Fort Griswold, Fort Saybrook, Pequot Fort... maybe even Forts Black Rock and Nathan Hale. These are all Connecticut forts people may have heard of. But Fort Stamford? Miles inland from the Long Island Sound? Tucked away along … [Read more...]
443. Hockanum Hose Company Fire Museum
A Couple of Hosers East Hartford (Google Maps location) June 21, 2019 A funny thing happened at this little museum: I didn't take a picture of the star of the show... the Belle of the ball, Maxine. Now, getting a picture of the vintage 1940 Mack fire engine would have been very difficult, owing to the small space … [Read more...]
436. Pine Grove Schoolhouse
Pining For the Past Avon (Google Maps location) June 2, 2019 Someone asked me the other day a question I love ("OMG! You read and care about CTMQ?!") and hate ("OMG! If I answer you honestly, you'll think I'm nuts!"). Part of the question was related to the whole "town completion" thing I do. Was there an order … [Read more...]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 37
- Next Page »