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Bethlehem Fair Photo Museum

October 6, 2026 by Steve Leave a Comment

Whoops (Part 1) Bethlehem Fair Art Museum, Bethlehem (Location) September 2026 "Whoops Part 2" is here. This is Connecticut museum visit #555 Whoops. This mistake is my own. Well, for the most part. I've scoured the various Connecticut town fair websites over the years trying to be sure I get to all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Bethlehem, Fairs and Festivals, Not Really a Museum Museum

New Britain Museum of American Art

October 3, 2026 by Steve Leave a Comment

Hard Hittin' Art New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain April 2019 The NBMAA is part of the Connecticut Art Trail and is also a US First and a "See before you die" place. If an artist isn't credited, I don't know who the artist was. My apologies. Connecticut museum visit #410. These are the pages … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cultural, Heritage, & Historic Trails, Everything Else, Museums, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: "See Before you die" list, Art, Calvin, Connecticut Art Trail, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, New Britain

Ball & Socket Arts

September 3, 2026 by Steve Leave a Comment

The Ol' Ball & Socket Ball & Socket Arts, Cheshire (Location) June 2025 Connecticut museum visit #548. Remember when men would refer to their wives or girlfriends as "the ol' ball and chain?" I'm sure plenty still do, but not in my orbit. Men can be such dorks. I'm a dork, but a different kind of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Calvin, Cheshire, Damian, Free Museums, Tiny Museums

Founders League Private Prep School Museums

January 20, 2025 by Steve 1 Comment

Fahncy Founders League Private Prep School Museums, Various Towns This page is only about the 9 Connecticut schools in The Founders Athletic League. There are many other schools - boarding, prep, and public - around the state with museums. You can blame this page on my very specific, very undiagnosed, very … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Appointment Only, Art, Not Really a Museum Museum, Private Schools

American Mural Project

October 3, 2024 by Steve 1 Comment

AMPed Up, Up, Up... American Mural Project, Winchester (Location) September 2024 This is a Connecticut Art Trail site and was my Connecticut museum visit #524. Also, this is billed as the "largest indoor collaborative artwork in the world." I love big, ambitious projects. Heck, you're reading a very big … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Museums, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Art, Connecticut Art Trail, Damian, Dubious Claims, Largests Longests Mosts Smallests and Tallests, Not Really a Museum Museum, Winchester, Winsted

Pegasus and Niche Galleries at MxCC

January 8, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

Niche Indeed Middletown (Google Maps location) December 2023 CT museum visit #514. I might be the first person to ever drive to the out-of-the-way Middlesex Community College campus for the sole purpose of seeing its two tiny art galleries who is not a close friend or relative of an exhibited artist. Hooray for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Colleges & Universities, Free Museums, Middletown, Not Really a Museum Museum, Tiny Museums

Chen Art Center Gallery

November 28, 2023 by Steve 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, ccsu, Colleges & Universities, Free Museums, New Britain, Not Really a Museum Museum

Loos Center for the Arts

November 13, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

They're Not Booing, They're Saying "Looooooos!" Loos Center for the Arts, Woodstock (Location) October 2023 Connecticut museum visit #508. 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Calvin, Free Museums, Private Schools, Rarely Open, Woodstock

amArtHouse

February 16, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

I amArtHouse I Am Litchfield (Google Maps location) July 2022 Over the years of writing this website, I've seen the Bantam section of Litchfield grow up from a one stoplight, one gas station slice of Route 202 to a destination. Bantam Lake has always been there, and the cute little lakefront cottages have always … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Damian, Free Museums, Litchfield, private museum

Bethany Museum of Impressionism

January 23, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

First Impressions... Bethany (Private home) December 2022 I don't often explain my page titles. Most of the time they are just so good and brilliant that they speak for themselves. Other times, they are just so great and beyond brilliant that only an elite few will appreciate them. (Those are the readers that know … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Appointment Only, Art, basement museums, Bethany, Not Really a Museum Museum, private museum

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