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The Norfeldt Kindergarten Museum

June 13, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

This is My Site and My Son, So There West Hartford May 4, 2017 Warning: This is a vanity post. I am writing this for me and my family, not any of you. It's not the first and it won't be the last. And I don't care. I deserve to be able to do such things once every five years or so. The Norfeldt Kindergarten … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Calvin, Damian, Free Museums, Hartford County, Hoang, Not Really a Museum Museum, schools, West Hartford

Mystic River Historical Society & Portersville Academy

June 6, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Skeletons in the Closet Groton (Google Maps location) June 2016 I know you all just love when I insist on geolocating things in either Groton or Stonington and refuse to say "Mystic." Even now, with the Mystic River Historical Society of... Mystic. Look, it's in Groton. Groton, Groton, Groton. Of course … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Damian, Free Museums, Groton, Mystic, New London County, Rarely Open, School Houses

Hyland House Museum

May 23, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Hy-Ho, Hy-Ho, It¹s Off to Another Museum I Go... Guilford (Google Maps location) June 2016 Any reader of this website knows that there are a lot of historic house museums in Connecticut. (And, presumably, other surrounding states as well.) When I began visiting them and writing about then long ago, I often … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Damian, Guilford, historic house museums, Historic Houses, New Haven County

Northwest Connecticut Fire Fighting Museum

May 17, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Torr it Up Torrington (Google Maps location) February, 2022 There have been over 100 breweries in Connecticut for for a few years as I write this in 2022. There had never been a museum inside a brewery - or a brewery inside a museum - in Connecticut before 2020. (I write that having no idea how true that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Fire Museum, Litchfield County, Not Really a Museum Museum, Torrington

EverWonder Children’s Museum

May 2, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Ever the Wonder Newtown (Google Maps location) August 13, 2016 Newtown deserves great things. Its children deserve whatever fun and safe entity the town can support. Granted, the majority of the local kids visiting this children's museum were have no memory of - or were not alive when - tragedy struck their town … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Children's Museums, Damian, Fairfield County, Hoang, Newtown

Clocktown Brewery Museum

April 25, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

9 O'Clocks Thomaston (Google Maps location) April 2022 A strange thing has happened in two newer (ca. 2021) Connecticut breweries on the northern Route 8 corridor: They've included museums. Now, I'd like to think both Bad Dog Brewing in Torrington and Clocktown Brewery in Thomaston has done this for one reason: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Horology, Litchfield County, Not Really a Museum Museum, Thomaston, Tiny Museums

Five Points Art Gallery & Annex

April 18, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Five Alive Torrington (Google Maps location) February 2022 "Downtown Torrington" isn't huge and it isn't a shopping or dining mecca these days. It's trying though, and it's doing a great job of it. New higher-end restaurants are popping up, new coffee shops and a hip used book store... a funky homemade fudge … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Litchfield County, Torrington

Ivoryton Playhouse

April 12, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Please Tell Me They've Done "The Elephant Man" Here Essex (Google Maps location) June 2016 Connecticut is home to a slew of historic theaters. Many of them offer tours that present the buildings almost as museums - as they should. The idiom "if these walls could talk" applies to every one of these places as much … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Damian, Essex, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Middlesex County, Not Really a Museum Museum, theaters

The Nut Museum

April 7, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

I'd Go to a Nut Theme Park Transient March 2022 Yes! Finally! Back in 2006 when this website had a different name and a far more limited mission, I was bummed that I'd missed out on what was perhaps Connecticut's most famous quirky museum. Today, we have many dozens of similar eccentric little museums - and I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Colleges & Universities, transient museums

Medad Stone Tavern Museum

March 21, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

"But What About Me, Dad?" Guilford (Google Maps location) June 11, 2016 For whatever reason I've always thought in my head that the guy's name was Stone Medad. And I always thought that was funny. Now, as I begin writing about my visit to the museum with my son Damian and notice the guy's name was actually Medad … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Guilford, guilford keeping society, historic house museums, Historic Houses, New Haven County

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