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SCELBI Computer Virtual Museum

August 4, 2020 by Steve 2 Comments

SCELBI Date Milford August 1, 2020 The COVID-19 Pandemic is a strange time. I'm writing this in early August, now five months into this nightmare... thinking about the year that should have been. And how much we simply couldn't do. Sigh. Way, way, way down the list of "stuff I didn't do" is, of course, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Museums, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Dubious Claims, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Milford, Not Really a Museum Museum, virtual museum

Guilford Smith Library Museum

July 25, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

... Where They Bury the Lies Windham (Google Maps location) January 5, 2019 For the thousands of you who have already read about my visit to the Edward A. Card Photography Museum, you know the deal here. For those that shamefully haven't, the deal is that there are two museums at the Guilford Smith Library, and I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Free Museums, Libraries, Rarely Open, Tiny Museums, Windham

263. Military Museum of Southern New England (RIP)

July 13, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

Awww, Shoot! Danbury (RIP) May 24, 2014 Almost exactly one year before my family visited the Military Museum of Southern New England in Danbury, its founder was shot and killed by police at his Ridgefield home. About a year after our visit, the museum's name was changed to The U.S. Military Museum. And three … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Museums, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Calvin, Closed/Gone/Former, Damian, Danbury, Hoang, Largests Longests Mosts Smallests and Tallests, Military History

406. Edward A. Card Photography Museum

July 6, 2020 by Steve 1 Comment

Card Catalog Windham (Google Maps location) January 5, 2019 Okay procrastination, you've got me. You've got me good. Fortunately, very few people read the vast collection of CTMQ museum pages. Yeah, it's true. Even though this website began as a blog in 2006 chronicling my visits to Connecticut's wide and wild … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Free Museums, Libraries, Rarely Open, Tiny Museums, Windham

Old Farm School Museum

June 29, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

Reserve Time For This One Bloomfield (Google Maps location) July 2018 Connecticut museum visit #398. Y'know... After nearly 400 museums and a fairly decent grasp of Connecticut's history, there's still plenty for me to learn. Sure, I was familiar with the old fanciful charter in which Connecticut claimed the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Bloomfield, Damian, Free Museums, School Houses, wintonbury historical society

Danbury Railway Museum

June 21, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

Hoppin’ The Turnstiles Danbury (Google Maps location) May 24, 2014 The museum is now home to The World's Tallest Uncle Sam! It may surprise you to learn that the Danbury Railway Museum has only existed since 1996. It just seems like the kind of place that has always been there... in the heart of Danbury and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Damian, Danbury, Hoang, Model Trains, Outdoor Museums, Trains and Trolleys

Fannie R. Gabriel History Center

April 27, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

Fannie Farmer Bloomfield (Google Maps location) July 2018 Connecticut museum visit #399. The Fannie R. Gabriel History Center is next door to the Wintonbury (Bloomfield) Historical Society's Old Farm School museum. The two buildings share a parking lot. Other people who are visiting the 700+ museums in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Bloomfield, Damian, Free Museums, Town History, wintonbury historical society

460. Art Gallery at UConn Stamford

April 14, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

The Kids are Alright Stamford (Google Maps location) February 28, 2020 The state's flagship university has refocused its branch locations in the early 2000's. They closed the Torrington branch, moved the Hartford one, and invested fairly heavily in the Stamford one. (Which, as Connecticut's most modern city, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Colleges & Universities, Damian, Free Museums, Not Really a Museum Museum, Stamford, UConn

KidsPlay

April 12, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

And Play And Play And Play And Play... Torrington (Google Maps location) November 2014 As the only person who has ever even thought about visiting all of Connecticut's museums, I do often think about how lucky I am to have children. Not only do they provide great cover at many places I drag them to, they have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Children's Museums, Damian, Hoang, Torrington

266. Tourtellotte Memorial Room Museum

March 9, 2020 by Steve 2 Comments

Nice $&^$! Museum... #$&$! Thompson (Google Maps location) May 28, 2014 I apologize for my crude title, but it's just very hard for me to say "Tourtellote" without thinking of Tourettes Syndrome. As a parent of a special needs child with very different, but similarly debilitating behaviors, I'm not making fun of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Appointment Only, Dubious Claims, Free Museums, Largests Longests Mosts Smallests and Tallests, Thompson

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