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The Lewis Walpole Library

September 28, 2008 by Steve 2 Comments

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...]

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

Housatonic Museum of Art

June 5, 2008 by Steve 2 Comments

Bring Some Gin For This Housatonic Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport (Location) May 2008 Housatonic Museum of Art is a Connecticut Art Trail site. Connecticut museum visit #51. My first art museum! Finally! After only 50 other Connecticut museum visits! It's not that I've been purposely avoiding them... I … [Read more...]

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

The Museum of American Political Life (Closed)

February 16, 2008 by Steve 7 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, 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, UConn

Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry

October 29, 2007 by Steve 6 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Calvin, Colleges & Universities, Creepy Dolls, Damian, Free Museums, Mansfield, Storrs, UConn

New Britain Industrial Museum

May 26, 2007 by Steve 15 Comments

Not Just Boring Machines New Britain Industrial Museum, New Britain (Google Maps Location) October 2006 Connecticut museum visit #1! The museum moved to a storefront on Main Street in downtown New Britain in 2019, then to a different location in 2026, and will hopefully reopen in 2027. There’s a lot going on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, EdHill, Free Museums, Industrial History, New Britain, Tools, Town History

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