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CTMQ > Free Museums

74. Plainville Historic Center

January 20, 2009 by Steve 3 Comments

Ah Oui, Ville-de-Plaine Plainville (Google Maps Location) October 1, 2008 Note: All early CTMQ posts have small, vertical, rather terrible pictures. Sorry. There comes a time in every person's life where surprising things become a little bit less surprising. Take, for instance, after going to 73 museums in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Aviation, Birds, Creepy Dolls, Free Museums, Plainville, Tools, Town History

64. Westmoor Park

December 2, 2008 by Steve 2 Comments

Crying Fowl West Hartford(Google Maps Location) Multiple Visits 2019 Update: This page is a bit... old. The pictures are bad and poorly formatted, but you'll get the gist. We've been here a million times. In fact, I was just there a few weeks ago in April 2019 chaperoning a field trip for my second grader, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Museums Tagged With: Animals, Birds, Damian, Farms, Free Museums, Nature Centers, Outdoor Museums, West Hartford

Somers Historical Society Museum

October 21, 2008 by Steve 7 Comments

Somerstime, and the Livin' is Easy Somers (Google Maps Location) June 2008 CT Museum visit #62. My visit up to Somers was perhaps one of my most random forays ever done for this website. One fine Saturday I remember just putting Damian down to nap and telling Hoang I had to just "go." When you have a special … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Free Museums, Somers, Town History

72. New Britain Youth Museum

October 14, 2008 by Steve 1 Comment

Youth of Today New Britain (Google Maps Location) September 27, 2008 Growing up, I was mostly influenced by my older brother. In the early to mid-eighties, he (and therefore, I) started getting into punk and hardcore music. I was never a social outcast or anything, I was simply drawn to the hard, fast, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Children's Museums, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, New Britain

Thomas Lee House Museum

October 8, 2008 by Steve 2 Comments

Nice, But Where's the Stripper Pole? East Lyme (Google Maps Location) June 2008 No stripper pole? No weird swing above the bed? No music studio? It stands to reason that ol' Thomas Lee was called Tommy by his mates. So you can't blame me for thinking I was going to a museum built in honor of Mr. Pam … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: East Lyme, Free Museums, historic house museums, Historic Houses

73. New Britain Local History Room

October 2, 2008 by Steve 26 Comments

Fafnir for the Common New Britain Man New Britain (Google Maps Location) October 1, 2008 Update: I likely wouldn't include this place in my list of museums now, but I did in 2008, so here we are. Being married to a woman who grew up in New Britain from the tender age of two until I married her 29 years … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Free Museums, Libraries, New Britain, Not Really a Museum Museum, Tiny Museums, Town History

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

Little Boston School House Museum

September 22, 2008 by Steve Leave a Comment

Err-ah, Lahhn Ya Three Ahhhhs East Lyme (Google Maps Location) June 2008 Bostonese-to-English title translation of the title above: "Hello, Learn Your Three R's." Nestled next to the far more expansive and interesting Thomas Lee House Museum is this little one-room schoolhouse museum. I won't lie to you: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: East Lyme, Free Museums, School Houses, Tiny Museums

54. Merritt Parkway Museum

August 12, 2008 by Steve Leave a Comment

A Museum Not Without Merritt Stratford (Google Maps Location) June 2, 2008 2019 update: Since writing this, there have been widening, tree-clearing, and off/on-ramp improvements to the Merritt. It's still mildly charming and dangerous however. What is a museum? According to Webster's (and since Noah Webster … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Cars and Trucks, Free Museums, National Scenic Byways, Roads and Tunnels, Stratford, Tiny Museums

Museum on the Green

July 20, 2008 by Steve Leave a Comment

Come and Drink the Green Kool-Aid Glastonbury (Google Maps Location) June 14, 2008 This is the greatest museum not only in Connecticut, but in the world. I love Glastonbury's Museum on the Green and all my readers must flock to it in droves and genuflect before the great brick building. Come... Drink the Green … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Free Museums, Glastonbury, historical society of glastonbury, Industrial History, Nautical History, Town History

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