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CTMQ > Free Museums

Enoch Kelsey House

February 10, 2025 by Steve 3 Comments

Enoch is Enoch Enoch Kelsey House, Newington January 2025 Connecticut museum visit #543. I knew something was off. Funny, even. The Enoch Kelsey House, a rarely open gem in the center of town, bent over backwards to accommodate my visit. Okay, maybe not to a great extent, but it's not typical for rarely-open … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Free Museums, historic house museums, Historic Houses, Newington, newington historical society, Rarely Open

Simsbury Free Library

January 22, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Eno's Traffic Simsbury Free Library, Simsbury November 2024 Connecticut museum visit #540. Funny story: I visited this library within a week or two of visiting another unique library in New Haven. There was no question in my brain that that library can be called a museum. But this one in Simsbury? I waffled. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums, New Post Tagged With: Free Museums, Libraries, Not Really a Museum Museum, Simsbury, Tiny Museums

Quinnipiac Dawnland Museum

November 13, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

It Just Dawned on Me... Quinnipiac Dawnland Museum, Guilford (Google Maps location) September 2012 & October 2024 I revisited the Dawnland Collection in 2024 as it is now part of the Dudley Farm Museum complex. Update at bottom. I still consider it Connecticut museum visit #238. 2012 At the time of my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Free Museums, Guilford, native american history

Riverbound Farm Nature Center

October 30, 2024 by Steve 1 Comment

Centered on Birds Riverbound Farm Nature Center, Cheshire May 2019 Connecticut museum visit #419 Classic. This rarely open Quinnipiac Valley Audubon Society nature center is a straight up, old school, nature center. Even though it's in someone's living room. Essentially. And I love it. Well, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: audubon, Birds, Cheshire, Damian, Free Museums, Nature Centers, Rarely Open

Greater Middletown Military Museum

October 24, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

GMMMorning Middletown! Greater Middletown Military Museum, Middletown December 2023 Connecticut museum visit #515. As you read this page, keep in mind that this large museum has plans to expand quite a bit. Once funding is secured - largely through private donations and not just grants like the more well known … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Free Museums, Middletown, Military History

Rocky Hill Fire Museum

October 16, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

A Rocky Future? Rocky Hill Fire Museum, Rocky Hill (Google Maps location) October 2024 Connecticut museum visit #525. There it is. Prominently standing tall in front of Rocky Hill's library, Congregational church, senior center, Academy Hall Museum, and town hall. Everyone who passes nearby sees it: The Rocky … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Appointment Only, Fire Museum, Free Museums, Rocky Hill, Tiny Museums

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

Adath Israel Judaica Museum

January 3, 2024 by Steve 3 Comments

Oy vey Middletown (Google Maps location) December 2023 CT museum visit #513. I don't quite remember how I first came to learn of the small museum at this synagogue in Middletown. I would guess it was more than a decade prior to my visit. I probably was poking around online when I was completing my walk around … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post, Religion, Cemeteries, Monuments, Statuary, Greens, & Outdoor Sculpture & Art Tagged With: Free Museums, Jewish, Middletown

Aetna Museum (Closed)

December 7, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

Aetna, Glad I Met Ya. I Guess. Hartford November 1999 CT museum visit #493, even though it closed to the public in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks and is probably in storage now. CVS purchased Aetna in 2018 for $69 billion. There aren't too many museums included on CTMQ that closed several years before CTMQ began. … [Read more...]

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Chen Art Center Gallery

November 28, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

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

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