Accordion To My Notes... North Canaan (Google Maps location) February 2022 The accordion was invented some 200 years ago, and its American heyday stretched from 1925 to 1960. The instrument is heavy and unwieldy. It cannot play quietly and it can be as piercing as a garbage truck's squealing brakes. The accordion … [Read more...]
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Earthplace
"Hi. I’m Mike. Mike the Mockingbird. I'm Here to Mock You.” Westport (Google Maps location) March 26, 2016 Earthplace, "Where science, conservation, and education meet." Load up the minivan honey, we're taking the boys to... school? The way Earthplace sells itself, it almost sounds like that. But I'm here … [Read more...]
Rick Nicita Gallery & Cinema Archives
NiceTaSeeya Nicita, if Only for a Minute Middletown (Google Maps location) February 20, 2016 How many words can I possibly write about this tiny little place? Movies. Film. Cinema. I went decades of my adult life not caring a whit about this whole world of culture and art. I probably went years without seeing … [Read more...]
The Discovery Science Center & Planetarium
We're Over the Moon Bridgeport (Google Maps location) December 5, 2015 COVID almost closed this museum for good in 2020, but Sacred Heart University stepped in and assumed management of it. During the 18-month closure, it was renovated by the University and it it reopened in 2021 as The Discovery Science Center & … [Read more...]
R.W. Woolworth Library and Research Center
Connecticut’s Other Boat Building Stonington (Google Maps location) January 2016 There are a lot of reasons to head to Stonington. Restaurants, seaside walks, breweries, wineries, shopping, all the Mystic stuff... interesting little museum-like library hybrids. That's right. Interesting little museum-like … [Read more...]
Stamford Museum & Nature Center
Otters, Udders, and... Light Sabers? Stamford (Google Maps location) December 2015 The Stamford Museum & Nature Center is a Connecticut Art Trail site We visited the Stamford Museum and Nature Center in 2015 and I'll state here at the outset that this is the rare Connecticut museum that I will definitely be … [Read more...]
Strong-Howard House
Taking a Fyler Windsor (Google Maps location) December 2021 True story: Back in 2006 when I first started putting together the framework of this ridiculous website - back in the "Connecticut MuseumQuest" days, I had a museum listed named the Lt. Walter Fyler House in Windsor. I don't remember when I realized such … [Read more...]
Huntington House Museum (Closed)
A Hunting We Will Go... Unfulfilled Windsor Way back in the beginning of CTMQ in 2006, back when it was Connecticut Museum Quest and was solely focused on museums... this museum in Windsor had already (just) closed. I had no chance of ever seeing it for the purposes of this website. Therefore, it falls outside of … [Read more...]
The Hubble Museum
Bursting Bubbles East Hartford (Virtual) December 2021 I'm feeling magnanimous... after all, I'm writing this during Christmas week and I'm off work and I'm happy. So I figured I'd throw the person behind The Hubble Museum a bone and include his "museum" among my massive list of Connecticut museums. It is … [Read more...]
Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee House
A Really Old House in a Really Old Town Windsor (Google Maps location) December 2021 Windsor is one of "The Big Three" in Connecticut. Most readers of this website know what I mean by that, but if you don't, "The Big Three" refers to Windsor, Hartford, Wethersfield - the first three towns formed and settled (by … [Read more...]
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