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...]
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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...]
Squire’s Tavern
Not Quite a Hitchcockian Tale Squire's Tavern, Barkhamsted (Google Maps location) June 2023 Connecticut museum visit #504. I know this person doesn't exist, but if, somehow, at some point in the future you are this person, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you, Barkhamsted Superfan, have read or will read my droning … [Read more...]
Loos Center for the Arts
They're Not Booing, They're Saying "Looooooos!" Woodstock (Google Maps location) October 2023 The story of how I was able to see the Gallery at the Loos Center is the story of the Gallery at the Loos Center. Not that the Loos Center and its art gallery aren't fine and respected venues in the Quiet Corner... but … [Read more...]
Wilcox House and Barn Museum
Granby Farm Day: A Life and Death Matter Granby (Google Maps location) September 2023 As you all know, Connecticut has 169 towns. With just over 11,000 residents, Granby is only the 92nd most populous town in the state. And yet... and yet, in terms of CTMQ readership, it seems like half of you live there. I am … [Read more...]
New Milford Historical Society & Museum
Don't Get Board, Man New Milford (Google Maps location) May 2019 A few things here at the outset: The New Milford Historical Society folks have updated a lot of the property since my visit, my visit was too short and somewhat odd because there was a tag sale going on in one of the museum buildings. Also, I think … [Read more...]
Mirtollucci & Sons Oddities Museum (Closed)
Disappearing Act Southington After a very brief existence, this museum closed in... 2020? Ish? At least I'm pretty sure it's closed. I've reached out to David Mirto, the owner, funder, collector, teacher, and showman responsible for this place through a variety of means a number of times over the course of … [Read more...]
The Center School House
Went to School and Learned Something The Center School House, Barkhamsted (Google Maps location) June 2023 Connecticut museum visit #505. I don't know how many one-room schoolhouse living museums I've been to in Connecticut and I don't feel like looking. I'd guess around a dozen with probably just as many left … [Read more...]
Rocky Neck State Park Nature Center (Closed)
Protect Ya Neck East Lyme Look, man, I tried visiting this place. At least three times! But I never got to it when it was open - and I suppose there's a chance it will open again in the future. I have no idea. Regardless, I'm fairly confident I have an idea of what the Rocky Neck Nature Center was like. … [Read more...]
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