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Dinosaur State Park Museum

August 4, 2009 by Steve 5 Comments

Dino-Mite! Dinosaur State Park Museum, Rocky Hill (Google Maps Location) April 2009 (First visit) Connecticut museum visit #96. For my page on the Dinosaur State Park trails, go here. If you just want the National Natural Landmark, go here. And if you're only into the arboretum, go here. But if you're here to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites Tagged With: Animals, Cool Geology, CT Dino Trail, Damian, dinosaur State Park, Dinosaurs, Hoang, Natural History, Rocky Hill

128. Brookfield Nature Center and Rock Museum

August 2, 2009 by Steve 1 Comment

Hellooooo Broooookfield! Brookfield (Google Maps Location) July 20, 2009 I'd recently been doing some hikes out in western Connecticut in the New Milford-Brookfield-Bridgewater area. I'd stumbled upon a few heretofore unknown museums on my forays back home in Roxbury and Woodbury - pretty much the most exciting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Brookfield, Free Museums, Nature Centers, Not Really a Museum Museum, Outdoor Museums

93. William Benton Museum of Art

July 28, 2009 by Steve 2 Comments

A Real Bento(n) Box of a Museum Storrs February 25, 2009 The William Benton Museum is a Connecticut Art Trail site. I'd been to one of Yale's two large art museums and a couple smaller galleries at Wesleyan. I wondered how our state's flagship public university would stack up? Actually, I didn't wonder … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cultural, Heritage, & Historic Trails, Museums Tagged With: Art, Colleges & Universities, Connecticut Art Trail, Free Museums, Mansfield, Storrs, UConn

125. UConn Animal Barns

July 26, 2009 by Steve 4 Comments

Lots of Damian Pictures... I'm Gonna Milk This One Storrs (Google Maps Location) July 2009 and Others UConn has a split personality. On the one hand, it's a modern University with a top tier basketball program known the world over. On the other hand, it's an agricultural school at heart; located in a very … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Museums Tagged With: Animals, CT Cheese Trail, Damian, Farms, Mansfield, Not Really a Museum Museum, Storrs, UConn

127. UConn Public Art Collection

July 23, 2009 by Steve 2 Comments

Art: It's Everywhere! 30 pieces at UConn at Storrs, Stamford, Torrington, Farmington, Hartford, Avery Point Various Dates How can a museum span six towns across the state? When I say it can. UConn has a terribly unpublicized collection of top notch public art at several of its campuses, as well as the law … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, Farmington, Groton, Hartford, Mansfield, Not Really a Museum Museum, Outdoor Museums, Public/Outdoor Art, Stamford, Storrs, Torrington, UConn

117. Ogden House and Gardens

July 19, 2009 by Steve 1 Comment

This Old House Fairfield (Google Maps Location) June 13, 2009 There are a lot of historic house museums in Connecticut. A LOT. And frequent readers know that they are barely discernible from each other. Oh sure, some have really cool stories or unique architectural quirks, but others are... Well, others are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Fairfield, Historic Houses

123. Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame

July 14, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

These Girls Done Good... For Girls Traveling Exhibit April 8, 2009 If you're paying close attention, you'll notice this visit is a bit out of order. That's because when I stumbled upon it at a writer's conference at Tunxis Community College (where I took in museum number 97), I didn't really think it warranted … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Free Museums, Halls of Fame, Not Really a Museum Museum, prudence crandall, Statewide, transient museums

92. Homer Babbidge Library & Dodd Center

July 14, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

"She's dead. Wrapped in plastic." UConn Storrs (Google Maps Location) February 25, 2009 A few of the Babbidge Library pictures are from Jerry Dougherty's incredible compendium of photos of EVERYTHING in Connecticut. Stop hurting your brain; my title makes no sense whatsoever. Well, it does to me but not to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, Libraries, Mansfield, Not Really a Museum Museum, State History, Storrs, UConn

Stratton Brook State Park Nature Center

July 9, 2009 by Steve 1 Comment

At least I saw a Water Scorpion Stratton Brook State Park Nature Center, Simsbury (Google Maps location) July 2009 Connecticut museum visit #122. I'm sure it very rarely open these days. At one point I think I had a plan to visit all the state parks in Connecticut and blog about them too. Who knows, maybe I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites Tagged With: Damian, Hoang, Nature Centers, Simsbury, stratton brook state park

89. Husky Heritage Sports Museum

July 7, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

U-C-O-N-N, UConn! UConn! UConn! UConn-Storrs (Google Maps Location) February 25, 2009 This page is about a 2009 visit. Many more championships have been won since then in basketball and field hockey, the football team has reached the Fiesta Bowl and then record futility, the hockey program joined Hockey East... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: basketball, Colleges & Universities, Free Museums, Mansfield, national Champions, Storrs, UConn

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