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Bethlehem Fair Vintage Museum

October 12, 2026 by Steve 1 Comment

Whoops (Part 2) Bethlehem Fair Vintage Museum, Bethlehem (Location) September 2026 "Whoops Part 1" is here. This is Connecticut museum visit #556 Whoops. This mistake is my own. Well, for the most part. The above is exactly how I began my page about my visit to the same fair's Photo Museum, which I … [Read more...]

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Bethlehem Fair Photo Museum

October 6, 2026 by Steve Leave a Comment

Whoops (Part 1) Bethlehem Fair Art Museum, Bethlehem (Location) September 2026 "Whoops Part 2" is here. This is Connecticut museum visit #555 Whoops. This mistake is my own. Well, for the most part. I've scoured the various Connecticut town fair websites over the years trying to be sure I get to all … [Read more...]

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Vernon Historical Society Outdoor Museum

September 26, 2026 by Steve Leave a Comment

VHS Rewind Vernon Historical Society Outdoor Museum, Vernon (Location) September 2026 Don't be confused by the multiple mentions of Rockville below. Rockville is a section of Vernon but it's one of those place names that residents really, really like to hang on to, so I'll honor that here. This is Connecticut … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Free Museums, Not Really a Museum Museum, Outdoor Museums, Town History, Vernon, vernon historical society

Interactive Periodic Table Mini-Museum

January 26, 2026 by Steve 1 Comment

Your Periodic Reminder that Many Social Media Influencers Are Idiots Interactive Periodic Table Mini-Museum, Mansfield (Location) November 2025 Connecticut museum visit #551. In the new world of dystopian brain-melting stupidity that we live in where hate is a virtue and science is demonized... where measles … [Read more...]

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Lyman Homestead

January 12, 2026 by Steve Leave a Comment

Simple Lyman, Not Just a Pieman Lyman Homestead, Middlefield (Location) December 2025 The Lyman Homestead is on the Connecticut Underground Railroad Trail, part of The Freedom Trail. Connecticut museum visit #554. The Lyman family is Middlefield and Middlefield is Lyman. The present day orchards with it's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Christmas, historic house museums, Historic Houses, Middlefield, Not Really a Museum Museum, Rarely Open

The Gallery Selfie Museum

November 17, 2025 by Steve 5 Comments

Sometimes I Hate My Selfie The Gallery Selfie Museum, Ledyard (Location) April 2025 Connecticut museum visit #544. I visited this museum twice in the same week. I didn't actually visit this museum, nor will I. Huh? For one, this isn't a museum by anyone's definition, though that hasn't stopped … [Read more...]

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Simsbury Free Library

January 22, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Eno's Traffic Simsbury Free Library, Simsbury November 2024 Connecticut museum visit #540. Funny story: I visited this library within a week or two of visiting another unique library in New Haven. There was no question in my brain that that library can be called a museum. But this one in Simsbury? I waffled. I … [Read more...]

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Book Review: A Museum of Early American Tools

January 21, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Toolin' Along A Museum of Early American Tools, Eric Sloane (1964) Connecticut museum visit #542. This is a first. 542 Connecticut museums into this decades-long project and I'm calling a book I just read a museum. Which is ridiculous. Absurd. Ludicrous. The book was written by Eric Sloane, one of … [Read more...]

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Founders League Private Prep School Museums

January 20, 2025 by Steve 1 Comment

Fahncy Founders League Private Prep School Museums, Various Towns This page is only about the 9 Connecticut schools in The Founders Athletic League. There are many other schools - boarding, prep, and public - around the state with museums. You can blame this page on my very specific, very undiagnosed, very … [Read more...]

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Rimmon School House (Closed)

January 13, 2025 by Steve 1 Comment

Rimmon Job Rimmon School House, Beacon Falls November 2024 Y'know, this was never a museum and I'm 99% sure it will never be a museum, but here it is, what I'm calling Connecticut museum visit #531. Look, I get it. You think I'm just padding my museum visit stats. Fine. But do you really think that a guy … [Read more...]

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