Shhh! It's a Secret Library Museum! Farmington (Google Maps Location) September 2008 Connecticut Museum visit #71. 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 … [Read more...]
51. Housatonic Museum of Art
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...]
The Museum of American Political Life (Closed)
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...]
CT State Museum of Natural History (Closed)
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...]
Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry
You Must Be Pulling My String Mansfield (Google Maps Location) August 25, 2007 Since my original visit, the museum moved from its original location at the old Mansfield Training School to a new building in the new "downtown" part of the UConn campus. But the old location was a big part of the original page, so I'm … [Read more...]
New Britain Industrial Museum
Not Just Boring Machines New Britain (Google Maps Location) October 6, 2006 There’s a lot going on here. First and foremost, my good friend and partner in crime who appears in some pictures below and even contributed a few paragraphs, passed away in May 2016. Ed was largely responsible for the creation of CTMQ. … [Read more...]
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