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...]
Latest Museum Visits Below...
Green District Schoolhouse
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...]
Iwo Jima/World War II Traveling Museum
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...]
Ordway Gallery and AoF Sports Hall of Fame
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 (2019 prices) when all is said and … [Read more...]
369. Broad Brook Barbershop & Courthouse Museums
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...]
415. Hills Academy History Center
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...]
Academy Hall Museum
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...]
East Windsor Academy Museum
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...]
Energize CT Center (Closed)
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...]
271. Connecticut Trolley Museum
A Desire Named Streetcar East Windsor (Google Maps location) June 14, 2014 The Connecticut Trolley Museum's current slogan is, "Where History Moves You." And I think that's pretty great. For me and my boys, that slogan only has literal meaning; that is, we took a 3-mile historic trolley ride through the wilds of … [Read more...]
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