A Real Hard Hittin’ Museum New Britain (Google Maps location) August 8, 2015 I can’t even pretend this is a real museum. Keep in mind who just wrote that. I’m the guy that accepts pretty much anything as a museum that calls itself a museum. I’ve been to some very, very tiny museums in Connecticut. … [Read more...]
290. Bill Memorial Library Museum
Go For Daddy, Stay For Mummy Groton (Google Maps location) March 22, 2014 Groton has a bunch of museums, several of which draw visitors from outside of Connecticut and even southern New England. (In fact, if you go to the Submarine Force Museum at the Naval sub base, be sure to check out the license plates in the … [Read more...]
287. Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Galleries
Rhymes With Mons Venus Old Lyme (Google Maps location) March 7, 2015 Good ol' Lyme. I mean, Good Old Lyme... Or, good ol' Old Lyme. It's a lovely little town on the Sound with a very important place in art history. And art present. The town was where the Old Lyme Art Colony was formed - the first major … [Read more...]
282. Connecticut Cellar Savers Fire Museum
”Oh Fireman, There’s Somethin’ Smoking Hot On the Beach!” Portland (Google Maps location) November 29, 2014 I’m the rare writer who starts pages with an aside. I'm pretty sure that makes me a bad writer, but don’t tell anyone. Anyway, if you live in Connecticut and have kids, you may be familiar with the Out and … [Read more...]
279. Washington Art Association
Oh My Stars (Hollow)! Washington (Google Maps location) October 25, 2014 Have you ever been to Washington Depot? Like, specifically Washington Depot? Because Washington is made up of Washington Green, Marbledale, Woodville, and New Preston, but Washington Depot is the tiny little “downtown” with the post office … [Read more...]
River Valley Junction
Every Witch Way But Caboose Essex (Google Maps Location) October 11, 2007 [2014 Update: I've changed the name of this place in the title because it seems as though the Essex Steam Train folks have settled on this name. There's a new - in 2008 - art gallery in the building that wasn't there during our 2007 … [Read more...]
269. Highland Package Store Beer Can Museum
Yes I Can! Waterbury (Google Maps location) June 7, 2014 Some museums take hours to enjoy. Some take five minutes. The Beer Can Museum, located along the upper walls of the Highland Package Store in the Town Plot section of Waterbury would be the latter. Before I delve into my wholly unexciting experience at … [Read more...]
234. Tarrywile Mansion
Tarry Here Wile I Poke Around Danbury (Google Maps location) June 22, 2012 Ah, another one of these places... Museum? Or not a museum? Well, the simple fact that you are reading these words on this page tell you that I’ve deemed it a museum. Though not really. But sort of. It’s just like the … [Read more...]
233. Cheney Homestead Museum
Back on the Cheney Gang, Yeah-eah eah Manchester (Google Maps location) June 9, 2012 I hate to admit the following, but I feel I must: I probably only experienced 70-80% of this museum. I was barely able to listen to the docent. And my pictures are terrible at best. Why? Well, first of all, after … [Read more...]
232. Keeney Schoolhouse Museum
Keenish Manchester (Google Maps location) June 9, 2012 As I always do on Connecticut Open House days, I try to get to a few rarely open museums. Earlier in the morning, I made it up to the East Granby Historical Society Museum by myself. Then I went home, collected the family, and drove out to Manchester to … [Read more...]
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