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91. UConn Contemporary Art Gallery

February 26, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

So This is Where Basket Weaving 101 Was Taught UConn Storrs (Google Maps Location) February 25, 2009 I appreciate two things about this museum. One, its name is clear, concise and to-the-point. Two, it's very, very small. Continuing my full afternoon at UConn's various museums and museum-like places, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Art, Colleges & Universities, Free Museums, Mansfield, Storrs, Tolland County, UConn

76. Ezra & Cecile Zilkha Gallery

February 3, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

Great Art! Middletown (Google Maps Location) October 3, 2008 Fresh off my recently settled upon definition of museums, I'm now tasked with writing up this place. As it is a permanent gallery that only displays rather than sells, it is therefore a museum. (And really, you'd be hard pressed to argue.) It's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Art, Colleges & Universities, Free Museums, Middlesex County, Middletown, Wesleyan

75. Davison Art Center

February 3, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

The Bizarre and Beautiful Chewbacca Middletown (Google Maps Location) October 3, 2008 Here I am, staring at my chapped fingers asking them to write a coherent post about an art museum. My diamond anniversary museum, if you will, and only my second art museum. At least at the first one, The Housatonic Museum of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Art, Colleges & Universities, Free Museums, Middlesex County, Middletown, Wesleyan

14. Wesleyan’s College Row

January 23, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

Wesleyan's College Row Middletown Heritage Trail Site 14 High Street (at top of William Street) Ahhh, Wesleyan. Such memories I have of this fine institution of higher learning. Without delving too much into it, my high school girlfriend went to "Wes" as the cool kids call it and I attended UConn a ways north. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cultural, Heritage, & Historic Trails Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, Middlesex County, Middletown, Middletown Heritage Trail, Wesleyan

13. Freedom Church

January 23, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

Freedom Church Middletown Heritage Trail Site 13 Cross Street (by Freeman Athletic Center) This church originated in 1823 in the home of Asa Jeffrey on this spot. A true church building was not erected until 1830 under the leadership of Jeheil Beman. Beman, the son of a Revolutionary War soldier and the son of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cultural, Heritage, & Historic Trails Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, CT Freedom Trail, Middlesex County, Middletown, Middletown Heritage Trail, Underground Railroad Trail, Wesleyan

10. Russell House

January 22, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

Russell House Middletown Heritage Trail Site 10 350 High Street Continuing the tradition of completely useless information other than locations, the Heritage Trail brochure states, "Samuel Russell & the China trade; an elite neighborhood; presidents in Middletown." I don't understand that, so lets dig a bit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cultural, Heritage, & Historic Trails Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, Cool Architecture, Historic Houses, Middlesex County, Middletown, Middletown Heritage Trail, Wesleyan

71. The Lewis Walpole Library

September 28, 2008 by Steve 1 Comment

Shhh! It's a Secret Library Museum! Farmington (Google Maps Location) September 24, 2008 My 71st museum marks a milestone: My first "private tours given by appointment only" visit. How exciting! At least now I know I can handle them, as there are many others or so that require such TLC. And such tours are to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Appointment Only, Art, Colleges & Universities, Farmington, Free Museums, Hartford County, Libraries, Yale

51. Housatonic Museum of Art

June 5, 2008 by Steve 2 Comments

Bring Some Gin For This Housatonic Bridgeport (Google Maps Location) May 17, 2008 Housatonic Museum of Art is a Connecticut Art Trail site. My first art museum! Finally! After only 50 other Connecticut museum visits! It's not that I've been purposely avoiding them... I did try to go to at least one other art … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cultural, Heritage, & Historic Trails, Museums Tagged With: Art, Bridgeport, Colleges & Universities, Connecticut Art Trail, Fairfield County, Free Museums

The Museum of American Political Life (Closed)

February 16, 2008 by Steve 6 Comments

All Local Politics Museums is Closed The Museum of American Political Life, West Hartford RIP, Summer of 2004 2019 Update: No, this wasn’t the 431st museum I visited. It was somewhere around the 75th. But I decided to roll these post-closure “visits” into my general Museum Visits list so I have one less list to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Colleges & Universities, Hartford County, UHa, West Hartford

CT State Museum of Natural History (Closed)

November 2, 2007 by Steve 4 Comments

Scoping Out UConn's Wildlife Storrs section of Mansfield (Google Maps Location) August 25, 2007 The museum closed its physical location several years ago, but the collections are still housed at UConn and they trot out some exhibits at the library and other buildings around campus every so often. I am a proud … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: BEARS!, Closed/Gone/Former, Colleges & Universities, Free Museums, Mansfield, Natural History, Storrs, Tolland County, UConn

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