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CTMQ > Free Museums

114. Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery

August 28, 2009 by Steve 2 Comments

A Quick One Fairfield (Google Maps Location) June 13, 2009 Oh man. I'm busted. Busted, busted, busted. You see, with art museums I rely heavily upon their websites to better be able to describe the collections semi-intelligently. So far, I've been able to "get by" via this method. However, as I sit here … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Art, Colleges & Universities, Fairfield, fairfield university, Free Museums, Nudity

129. Flanders Nature Center

August 20, 2009 by Steve 1 Comment

Sadly, No Rod or Todd in Sight Woodbury (Google Maps Location) July 24, 2009 Casual readers of CTMQ can be forgiven for thinking all of our adventures with Damian are wonderfully happy little trips through the tulips. Unfortunately, this is not always the case - I tend to focus on the good stuff here and of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Animals, Damian, flanders land trust, Free Museums, Natural History, Nature Centers, Woodbury

128. Brookfield Nature Center and Rock Museum

August 2, 2009 by Steve 1 Comment

Hellooooo Broooookfield! Brookfield (Google Maps Location) July 20, 2009 I'd recently been doing some hikes out in western Connecticut in the New Milford-Brookfield-Bridgewater area. I'd stumbled upon a few heretofore unknown museums on my forays back home in Roxbury and Woodbury - pretty much the most exciting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Brookfield, Free Museums, Nature Centers, Not Really a Museum Museum, Outdoor Museums

93. William Benton Museum of Art

July 28, 2009 by Steve 2 Comments

A Real Bento(n) Box of a Museum Storrs February 25, 2009 The William Benton Museum is a Connecticut Art Trail site. I'd been to one of Yale's two large art museums and a couple smaller galleries at Wesleyan. I wondered how our state's flagship public university would stack up? Actually, I didn't wonder … [Read more...]

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

123. Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame

July 14, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

These Girls Done Good... For Girls Traveling Exhibit April 8, 2009 If you're paying close attention, you'll notice this visit is a bit out of order. That's because when I stumbled upon it at a writer's conference at Tunxis Community College (where I took in museum number 97), I didn't really think it warranted … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Free Museums, Halls of Fame, Not Really a Museum Museum, prudence crandall, Statewide, transient museums

89. Husky Heritage Sports Museum

July 7, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

U-C-O-N-N, UConn! UConn! UConn! UConn-Storrs (Google Maps Location) February 25, 2009 This page is about a 2009 visit. Many more championships have been won since then in basketball and field hockey, the football team has reached the Fiesta Bowl and then record futility, the hockey program joined Hockey East... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: basketball, Colleges & Universities, Free Museums, Mansfield, national Champions, Storrs, UConn

Wood Memorial Library and Museum

June 23, 2009 by Steve 2 Comments

Fact Check: This Isn't Named After Me South Windsor (Google Maps Location) February 2009 Connecticut museum visit #88. Weird. No, not the fact that a rarely open library has a museum that they advertise as a museum. What's weird is going somewhere named the Wood Memorial. Seeing as though my last name … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Art, Birds, Calvin, Damian, Free Museums, Libraries, native american history, Natural History, South Windsor

Vernon Historical Society Museum

June 2, 2009 by Steve 6 Comments

Ver-nonentities vs. Rockvillains Vernon/Rockville (Google Maps Location) May 2009 CT museum visit #106. How about some music to accompany your reading. "Rockville?" you say? "But you're in Vernon. What gives?" More on that later... As CTMQ readers know, I'm eternally fascinated by Connecticut's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Free Museums, Town History, Vernon

94. St. Joseph College* Art Gallery

June 1, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

Gettin' Nasty West Hartford (Google Maps Location) March 11, 2009 Update: This is now the "Art Gallery at the University of St. Joseph" as the school stepped it up a bit in 2012. Also, it is now part of the Connecticut Art Trail. I really should revisit this place and get better pictures, as it's only a few … [Read more...]

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

108. Plainville Library Museum

May 29, 2009 by Steve 2 Comments

All of Their Eggs in One Basket Plainville (Google Maps Location) May 28, 2009 Adhering to CTMQ bylaw 9.7 - "If they call themselves a museum, it's a museum" - I hereby present to you the smallest museum I’ve visited to date. I'll be quite surprised to find one smaller on my quest... But one never knows. (Which … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Birds, Free Museums, Libraries, native american history, Natural History, Plainville, Tiny Museums

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