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Cooley School Museum

August 11, 2008 by Steve 4 Comments

Too Cooley For Schooley Granby (Google Maps Location) July 2008 This is one of several Salmon Brook Historical Society Museums. This place has changed quite a bit since 2008 and is now open as part of regular tours. Looks like I'll have to revisit someday. Granby, Connecticut. Famous for... err... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Damian, Granby, Hartford County, salmon brook historical society, School Houses, Tiny Museums

61. Flamig Educational Farm

August 11, 2008 by Steve 4 Comments

You Know What Really Gets My Goat? West Simsbury (Google Maps Location) June 22, 2008 Note: An incredible amount of search engine traffic comes here looking for "Flaming Farm." This farm is not on fire. At some point along this crazy CTMQ journey I decided to incorporate things like "petting zoos" and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Museums Tagged With: Animals, Birds, Damian, Farms, Hartford County, Hoang, Not Really a Museum Museum, Outdoor Museums, Simsbury, Zoos

Museum on the Green

July 20, 2008 by Steve Leave a Comment

Come and Drink the Green Kool-Aid Glastonbury (Google Maps Location) June 14, 2008 This is the greatest museum not only in Connecticut, but in the world. I love Glastonbury's Museum on the Green and all my readers must flock to it in droves and genuflect before the great brick building. Come... Drink the Green … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Free Museums, Glastonbury, Hartford County, historical society of glastonbury, Industrial History, Nautical History, Town History

CT Audubon Society Coastal Center

July 9, 2008 by Steve Leave a Comment

As The Museum Terns... Milford (Google Maps Location) May 17, 2008 The irony was not lost on myself nor my traveling companions for the day (Rob and Yvonne); that is, on the way to the Audubon Society Center we passed a bunch of huge invasive Monk Parakeet nests along the coastline. Monk parakeets, of course, are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Animals, audubon, Birds, Long Island Sound, Milford, Nature Centers, New Haven County

The Museum of Connecticut History

July 1, 2008 by Steve Leave a Comment

Shh! Order in the Court/Library/Museum! Hartford (Google Maps Location) May 12, 2008 "The big 5-Oh." "Fitty." "Still Nifty at Fifty!" Yes folks, CTMQ has made it to the 50th museum plateau with nary a scrape nor defamation suit! While this may sound impressive, any pride is immediately mitigated by the fact … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Free Museums, Hartford, Hartford County, Industrial History, Military History, State History

Somers Mtn Museum of Natural History and Primitive Technology (Closed)

June 30, 2008 by Steve 13 Comments

The Drumbeat of Death Somers RIP, 2000? (Last site update 1999) 2019 Update: No, this wasn’t the 430th museum I visited. It was actually the 63rd. But I decided to roll these post-closure “visits” into my general Museum Visits list so I have one less list to worry about. I figure with the defunct visits, it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, native american history, Somers, Tolland County

Captain John Francis House Museum (Closed)

June 29, 2008 by Steve 7 Comments

O My! Captain! You're Not a Captain! Wethersfield (Google Maps Location) June 14, 2008 Closed as a museum in 2018. O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;  The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;  The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Free Museums, Hartford County, historic house museums, Historic Houses, Rarely Open, Wethersfield, wethersfield historical society

49. State Supreme Court

June 25, 2008 by Steve Leave a Comment

Supremely Interesting Hartford (Google Maps Location) May 12, 2008 While I have absolutely no factual basis upon which to state the following, I'm going to state it anyway: "Connecticut is the only state in the country where the state Supreme Court, State Library, and State History Museum are all housed under one … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Free Museums, Hartford, Hartford County, Not Really a Museum Museum, State History

47. Connecticut Legislative Office Building

June 22, 2008 by Steve 3 Comments

There Oughtta Be a Law: Visit Museums Hartford (Google Maps Location) May 12, 2008 First, an aside regarding my awkward title. I have received more then a few emails pointing me to various articles about the impending demise of the Mark Twain House Museum - one of CT's most popular and important sites. While I'm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Art, Free Museums, Hartford, Hartford County, Not Really a Museum Museum, State History

46. State Capitol Building

June 16, 2008 by Steve 9 Comments

Now That's a Capitol Idea! Hartford (Google Maps Location) May 12, 2008 What did YOU do with YOUR last half-day off from work? Golf? The beach? Nap? Bah - My son had a doctor's appointment around lunchtime so I decided to take a half day to enjoy the finest capitol building Connecticut has to offer. I never … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: "See Before you die" list, bushnell park, Free Museums, Hartford, Hartford County, Military History, Not Really a Museum Museum, State History

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