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CTMQ > Free Museums

Makens Bemont House

June 24, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Just Maken Stuff up East Hartford (Google Maps location) June 13, 2015 When it comes to Connecticut's Hartfords, East Hartford struggles a bit to be in the conversation. No other Hartford can ever be the OG Hartford Hartford, and West Hartford seems to have skyrocketed since the late 80's as one of the more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: East Hartford, Free Museums, Historic Houses, Historical Society of East Hartford, Rarely Open

368. Farm Tool Museum

June 18, 2019 by Steve 1 Comment

Look at These Tools East Windsor (Google Maps location) August 12, 2017 I was having a discussion with my wife recently and mentioned something about East Windsor and how I was excited to be closing in on visiting every museum and hiking every trail and all that good stuff I do for this here website. She kind of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Damian, East Windsor, east windsor historical society, Free Museums, Tobacco, Tools

Green District Schoolhouse

June 10, 2019 by Steve 3 Comments

Canterbury Tales Canterbury (Google Maps location) June 2019 There's a good chance that you are not familiar with Canterbury, Connecticut. And that's fine. I mean, it's not like it's home to one of the most important abolitionist educators that ever lived. Or was the birth - and final resting - place of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Canterbury, Free Museums, School Houses, Tiny Museums

Iwo Jima/World War II Traveling Museum

June 4, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Catch the Trailer East Hartford (Transient) June 10, 2017 Connecticut museum visit #357. In November 2024, the proprietors announced they are seeking a permanent brick and mortar home in East Hartford. There's just something about catching up with a museum on wheels. Or one that pops up every few years in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, East Hartford, Free Museums, Tiny Museums, transient museum

369. Broad Brook Barbershop & Courthouse Museums

May 30, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Don't Judge My Haircut East Windsor (Google Maps location) August 12, 2017 These two tiny standalone museums are part of the larger East Windsor Historical Society Museum complex. There are two historic house museums, a farm tool museum, a schoolhouse museum, and the two that I've combined onto this one page. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Damian, East Windsor, east windsor historical society, Free Museums, Tiny Museums

East Windsor Academy Museum

May 17, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

It's Not All Academic East Windsor (Google Maps location) June 2014 East Windsor is funny. Depending on how you count such things, there are either 9 museums or 2. Note: if you say two, you're not qualified to be a CTMQ reader. There are two "complexes" of museums in town; the Trolley Museum complex has three … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Creepy Dolls, CT Dino Trail, Damian, Dinosaurs, East Windsor, east windsor historical society, Free Museums, Industrial History, Town History

Energize CT Center (Closed)

May 8, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Workin' It North Haven (Google Maps location) April 2019 This place closed in 2020. Not every museum in Connecticut presents itself upfront as a museum. And we all know that I lump a lot of places under the museum umbrella that totally aren't what one typically refers to as a museum. But the Energize … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Closed/Gone/Former, Free Museums, North Haven, Not Really a Museum Museum

Connecticut BioBlitz

March 10, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

"Are you ready Steve? Uh-huh" Multiple Locations (East Hartford for us) (Google Maps location) June 4, 2016 Do you want to know what my favorite part of Sweet's classic "Ballroom Blitz" is? It's how it begins: Are you ready Steve? Uh-huh Andy? Yeah Mick? Okay Alright fellas, let's go! As one named … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Museums, New Post Tagged With: Animals, Calvin, Colleges & Universities, Damian, East Hartford, Free Museums, Natural History, Not Really a Museum Museum, Rarely Open, transient museums, UConn

Derrin House

January 19, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

They're Practically Derrin' Me to Revisit Derrin House Museum, Avon (Location) November 2016 Connecticut museum visit #336. Is it fair to a fine historical preservation organization to visit one of their museums when it is more or less empty and gutted? Most would say no, I'd argue yes. Avon's Derrin … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Avon, avon historical society, Free Museums, Historic Houses

389. Elton Tavern Museum

November 24, 2018 by Steve Leave a Comment

Little Pink Houses, For You and Me Burlington (Google Maps location) June 9, 2018 Very few, if any, of you have stopped to think about all the Connecticut museums you've driven by a million times and have never visited. It's a refrain I hear all the time when people email me or speak with me about CTMQ. And it's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Burlington, Free Museums, Historic Houses

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