School of Rock The Rock School, Colebrook (Google Maps location) June 2024 Connecticut museum visit #519. Here we are again. At yet another one-room school house museum. On the outside looking in. And that's fine. I came to a point in my decades-long adventure when I realized that there's really no need … [Read more...]
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Gaylord House Museum
Just Some Guy 1845 Gaylord House Museum, Hartland January 2019 CT Museum #517 Hartland is a lovely town. Really and truly. The 17 (est.) people that live there will tell you the same. And their one museum is lovely as well. I mean, c'mon. Pure New England here: And, as is typical of rural New England … [Read more...]
Windham Textile and History Museum – The Mill Museum
Wait Just a Cotton Pickin' Minute... Windham Textile and History Museum -The Mill Museum, Windham January 2019 CT Museum #408 I do not know why this museum has two names. Or rather, one official name that is two different names. My 20 seconds of research into the important matter took me to the museum's … [Read more...]
Bethany Center School
On The Outside, Looking In Bethany (Google Maps location) May 2024 CT museum visit #516. The other day an article about me and this very website was published across a slew of Connecticut online outlets. The "Hearst Media" ones. It was about a guy (me) who claims to have visited 515 (now 516) museums across the … [Read more...]
Matchbox & Lesney Toy Museum
Matchbox 20 x 2000 Durham February 2020 CT museum visit #459. Some photos and quotes are from the 2021 short documentary "The Matchbox Man." Charlie Mack has over 44,000 Matchbox cars and Matchbox-branded toys. In his house. In Durham. It's... overwhelming. Now, I've written many times here … [Read more...]
Pegasus and Niche Galleries at MxCC
Niche Indeed Middletown (Google Maps location) December 2023 CT museum visit #514. I might be the first person to ever drive to the out-of-the-way Middlesex Community College campus for the sole purpose of seeing its two tiny art galleries who is not a close friend or relative of an exhibited artist. Hooray for … [Read more...]
Adath Israel Judaica Museum
Oy vey Middletown (Google Maps location) December 2023 CT museum visit #513. I don't quite remember how I first came to learn of the small museum at this synagogue in Middletown. I would guess it was more than a decade prior to my visit. I probably was poking around online when I was completing my walk around … [Read more...]
Durham Fair Farm Museum
Fair Dinkum* Durham (Google Maps location) September 2023 CT museum visit #507. *Fair Dinkum: slang, Australia. : unquestionably good or genuine : excellent. often used as a general expression of approval. I've been to Australia. People do actually say this there. People do not say it in Durham, Connecticut, … [Read more...]
Aetna Museum (Closed)
Aetna, Glad I Met Ya. I Guess. Hartford November 1999 CT museum visit #493, even though it closed to the public in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks and is probably in storage now. CVS purchased Aetna in 2018 for $69 billion. There aren't too many museums included on CTMQ that closed several years before CTMQ began. … [Read more...]
Chen Art Center Gallery
Chen, Chen, Chenge... New Britain (Google Maps location) November 2023 CT museum visit #509. Without checking, I'm going to say that almost all of our state's colleges and universities have at least one public art gallery. Some have multiple, and heck, there's Yale with two internationally acclaimed art … [Read more...]
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