CTMQ Museum Visits: Skip Down to Museum 101 Skip Down to Museum 201 Skip Down to Museum 301 Skip Down to Museum 401 Visit 1. The New Britain Industrial Museum, New Britain, 10/6/2006 Visit 2. The Connecticut River Museum, Essex, 10/20/2006 & 12/10/2006 Visit 3. Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum, … [Read more...]
393. Old Tolland County Courthouse Museum
Courting Disaster Tolland (Google Maps location) July 15, 2018 Visiting the Old Tolland County Courthouse Museum on its own would be ridiculous. While it is a standalone museum with its own personality and history, I highly encourage you to pair your visit with the Old Tolland County Jail and Museum across the … [Read more...]
391. Storyteller’s Cottage
Let Me Tell You a... Simsbury (Google Maps location) June 9, 2018 ... Story. The Story of why this place deserves a place on CTMQ’s hallowed list of Connecticut museums. For Storyteller’s Cottage is not a museum. It happens to be located right next to the Simsbury Historical Society collection of museums, but … [Read more...]
384. Woodbury Pewter Museum
Pew! Pew! Woodbury, (Google Maps location) June 2, 2018 I read pretty much anything and everything having to do with anything in Connecticut. That is pretty much my answer to the oft-asked question, “Steve, how do you create your thorough lists?” I don’t remember where I read that Woodbury Pewter calls a … [Read more...]
388. Harwinton Barn Museum
Barn To Do This Harwinton (Google Maps location) June 9, 2018 This is it, my friends! My final stop in Harwinton for CTMQ! [For now. While this visit "completes" the town for me, I'll be back when the local land trust clears their latest trail... at the least.] And what better way to put a period on the … [Read more...]
386. The T.A. Hungerford Memorial Library and Museum
Never Lose That Museum Hunger Harwinton (Google Maps location) June 9, 2018 Regarding my title above... as I close in on 400 Connecticut museum visits, I’m happy to report that I have not “lost the hunger” to visit maybe 400 more. Absurd? You bet. But I’m still game. This often surprises those who know … [Read more...]
387. Center Schoolhouse (Harwinton)
HARdly Unique Harwinton (Google Maps location) June 9, 2018 Over the years of writing CTMQ, I’ve bored everyone to death about what defines a museum for me. I’ve never received push back on one-room schoolhouses, but I imagine some question them. Perhaps not so much their inclusion, but rather that I single them … [Read more...]
390. Center Schoolhouse (Burlington)
Burlington's Piece of the Pi Burlington (Google Maps location) June 9, 2018 As I was making my way to Burlington’s one-room schoolhouse, a friend was mocking me for going to places, eating things, and visiting museums simply because it’s on one of my lists. I replied that I had already visited a one-room … [Read more...]
328. Alexey von Schlippe Art Gallery
What's the (Avery) Point? Groton (Google Maps location) June 14, 2016 Here I am, skimming through my mail in May of 2018. "Oh! A new issues of Connecticut Woodlands!" I say, as I rush off to go read it. While this is the Connecticut Forest & Parks Association's quarterly magazine, it has profiles of artists and … [Read more...]
330. James Merrill House
Hello? Helloooooo? Stonington (Google Maps location) June 14, 2016 Stonington is one of Connecticut’s most beautiful towns. I love it myself. And Stonington Borough within Stonington? It’s a real, live, New England seafaring movie set town. Museums, restaurants, jetties, history, curio shops, tree-lined … [Read more...]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 33
- Next Page »