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CTMQ > Not Really a Museum Museum

American Mural Project

October 3, 2024 by Steve 1 Comment

AMPed Up, Up, Up... American Mural Project, Winchester September 2024 Connecticut museum visit #524. Also, this is billed as the "largest indoor collaborative artwork in the world." I love big, ambitious projects. Heck, you're reading a very big ambitious project right now. Look at that first italicized bit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Museums, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Art, Damian, Dubious Claims, Largests Longests Mosts Smallests and Tallests, Not Really a Museum Museum, Winchester, Winsted

Bethany Center School

May 20, 2024 by Steve 1 Comment

On The Outside, Looking In Bethany (Google Maps location) May 2024 CT museum visit #516. The other day an article about me and this very website was published across a slew of Connecticut online outlets. The "Hearst Media" ones. It was about a guy (me) who claims to have visited 515 (now 516) museums across the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Bethany, Not Really a Museum Museum, School Houses, schools

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

Chen Art Center Gallery

November 28, 2023 by Steve 2 Comments

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

Bethany Museum of Impressionism

January 23, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

First Impressions... Bethany (Private home) December 2022 I don't often explain my page titles. Most of the time they are just so good and brilliant that they speak for themselves. Other times, they are just so great and beyond brilliant that only an elite few will appreciate them. (Those are the readers that know … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Appointment Only, Art, basement museums, Bethany, Not Really a Museum Museum, private museum

Goodspeed Opera House

September 14, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

Swingin' Good Time East Haddam (Google Maps location) June 10, 2017 Iconic. From a national view, there are very few things that are truly iconic in Connecticut. Yale, New Haven pizza, Mark Twain's House, Mystic Seaport maybe... insurance? The Whalers logo for sure. Um, Greenwich wealth? CTMQ? But if … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums, New Post Tagged With: East Haddam, Not Really a Museum Museum, theaters

The Norfeldt Kindergarten Museum

June 13, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

This is My Site and My Son, So There West Hartford May 4, 2017 Warning: This is a vanity post. I am writing this for me and my family, not any of you. It's not the first and it won't be the last. And I don't care. I deserve to be able to do such things once every five years or so. The Norfeldt Kindergarten … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Calvin, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, Not Really a Museum Museum, schools, West Hartford

Northwest Connecticut Fire Fighting Museum

May 17, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Torr it Up Torrington (Google Maps location) February, 2022 There have been over 100 breweries in Connecticut for for a few years as I write this in 2022. There had never been a museum inside a brewery - or a brewery inside a museum - in Connecticut before 2020. (I write that having no idea how true that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Fire Museum, Not Really a Museum Museum, Torrington

Clocktown Brewery Museum

April 25, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

9 O'Clocks Thomaston (Google Maps location) April 2022 A strange thing has happened in two newer (ca. 2021) Connecticut breweries on the northern Route 8 corridor: They've included museums. Now, I'd like to think both Bad Dog Brewing in Torrington and Clocktown Brewery in Thomaston has done this for one reason: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Horology, Not Really a Museum Museum, Thomaston, Tiny Museums

Ivoryton Playhouse

April 12, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Please Tell Me They've Done "The Elephant Man" Here Essex (Google Maps location) June 2016 Connecticut is home to a slew of historic theaters. Many of them offer tours that present the buildings almost as museums - as they should. The idiom "if these walls could talk" applies to every one of these places as much … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Damian, Essex, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Not Really a Museum Museum, theaters

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