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367. Osborn House Museum

June 16, 2019 by Steve 1 Comment

Re(Os)Born East Windsor (Google Maps location) August 12, 2017 No use beating around the bush here. I don't have much information for you about the Osborn House Museum of East Windsor Connecticut. Oh, sure, I have a bunch of pictures. And I can make a bunch of stuff up. It wouldn't be the first time... and it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, East Windsor, east windsor historical society, Historic Houses

Talcott Mountain Science Center & Academy

June 15, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Night of a Quadrillion Stars Talcott Mountain Science Center, Avon (Location) May 2019 Connecticut museum visit #422. It's funny that it took me nearly 13 years into this CTMQ adventure to get up to the closest entity on CTMQ to my house. (Maybe Westmoor Park or Crown Market is closer, but not by much. Why am I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Astronomy, Avon, Calvin, Great Views, Largests Longests Mosts Smallests and Tallests, Not Really a Museum Museum, planetarium, Private Schools, superlatives

Green District Schoolhouse

June 10, 2019 by Steve 3 Comments

Canterbury Tales Canterbury (Google Maps location) June 2019 There's a good chance that you are not familiar with Canterbury, Connecticut. And that's fine. I mean, it's not like it's home to one of the most important abolitionist educators that ever lived. Or was the birth - and final resting - place of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Canterbury, Free Museums, School Houses, Tiny Museums

Iwo Jima/World War II Traveling Museum

June 4, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Catch the Trailer East Hartford (Transient) June 10, 2017 Connecticut museum visit #357. In November 2024, the proprietors announced they are seeking a permanent brick and mortar home in East Hartford. There's just something about catching up with a museum on wheels. Or one that pops up every few years in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, East Hartford, Free Museums, Tiny Museums, transient museum

Ordway Gallery and AoF Sports Hall of Fame

June 2, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Yeah... Gonna Hafta Do This the Ordway Ordway Gallery and AoF Sports Hall of Fame, Avon (Location) May 2019 Connecticut museum visit #418. I have a weird fascination with Connecticut's private boarding schools. One reason is their exorbitant costs; usually around $70,000/year when all is said and done. But … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Avon, Halls of Fame, Not Really a Museum Museum, Private Schools

369. Broad Brook Barbershop & Courthouse Museums

May 30, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Don't Judge My Haircut East Windsor (Google Maps location) August 12, 2017 These two tiny standalone museums are part of the larger East Windsor Historical Society Museum complex. There are two historic house museums, a farm tool museum, a schoolhouse museum, and the two that I've combined onto this one page. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Damian, East Windsor, east windsor historical society, Free Museums, Tiny Museums

415. Hills Academy History Center

May 26, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Pure Justin Bobby Essex (Google Maps location) May 14, 2019 I've mentioned a few times on CTMQ that I used to write for the seminal blog TVgasm. It no longer exists and the owners who bought it wiped the Internet clean of its content. Why? I'll never know. Being a TVgasm writer meant that I watched a lot … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Essex, essex historical society, Not Really a Museum Museum

Academy Hall Museum

May 21, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

What is a Shad Horn? Academy Hall Museum, Rocky Hill (Google Maps location) March 2019 Connecticut museum visit #409. There are a lot of museums in Connecticut with the word "Academy" in their names. Somewhere around 10. You can probably figure out why... there were lots of academies that served a town's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Rocky Hill, Town History

East Windsor Academy Museum

May 17, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

It's Not All Academic East Windsor (Google Maps location) June 2014 East Windsor is funny. Depending on how you count such things, there are either 9 museums or 2. Note: if you say two, you're not qualified to be a CTMQ reader. There are two "complexes" of museums in town; the Trolley Museum complex has three … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Creepy Dolls, CT Dino Trail, Damian, Dinosaurs, East Windsor, east windsor historical society, Free Museums, Industrial History, Town History

Energize CT Center (Closed)

May 8, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Workin' It North Haven (Google Maps location) April 2019 This place closed in 2020. Not every museum in Connecticut presents itself upfront as a museum. And we all know that I lump a lot of places under the museum umbrella that totally aren't what one typically refers to as a museum. But the Energize … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Closed/Gone/Former, Free Museums, North Haven, Not Really a Museum Museum

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