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CTMQ > Not Really a Museum Museum

Pool Table Magic Museum

June 27, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

They've Got Some Kind of Balls Windsor Locks (Google Maps location) May 2019 We'll get to why this page exists in a minute. Don't get too excited, as you'll still think it shouldn't. Probably. But it does, and here we are. Together. Reading about a pool hall next to run-down motel within sight of Bradley Airport … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Not Really a Museum Museum, Windsor Locks

Ordway Gallery and AoF Sports Hall of Fame

June 2, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Yeah... Gonna Hafta Do This the Ordway Avon (Google Maps location) May 2019 Connecticut museum visit #418. I have a weird fascination with Connecticut's private boarding schools. One reason is their exorbitant costs; usually around $70,000/year when all is said and done. But mostly because many of them have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Avon, Halls of Fame, Not Really a Museum Museum, Private Schools

415. Hills Academy History Center

May 26, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Pure Justin Bobby Essex (Google Maps location) May 14, 2019 I've mentioned a few times on CTMQ that I used to write for the seminal blog TVgasm. It no longer exists and the owners who bought it wiped the Internet clean of its content. Why? I'll never know. Being a TVgasm writer meant that I watched a lot … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Essex, essex historical society, Not Really a Museum Museum

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

Storyteller’s Cottage (Closed)

July 24, 2018 by Steve Leave a Comment

Let Me Tell You a... Storyteller’s Cottage, Simsbury June 2018 Storyteller's Cottage, my 391st Connecticut museum, closed in September 2020 - a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. This business still operates an online and events model in 2024. ... Story. The Story of why this place deserves a place on CTMQ’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Free Museums, Not Really a Museum Museum, Other Companies and Businesses, Simsbury

384. Woodbury Pewter Museum

July 5, 2018 by Steve 2 Comments

Pew! Pew! Woodbury, (Google Maps location) June 2, 2018 I read pretty much anything and everything having to do with anything in Connecticut. That is pretty much my answer to the oft-asked question, “Steve, how do you create your thorough lists?” I don’t remember where I read that Woodbury Pewter calls a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Free Museums, Industrial History, Not Really a Museum Museum, Tiny Museums, Woodbury

291. Studio 80 + Sculpture Grounds

April 18, 2018 by Steve Leave a Comment

Frenetic and Kinetic Old Lyme (Google Maps location) April 16, 2015 We are nothing if not intrepid. Having visited the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts Gallery next door in early March, we attempted to walk the grounds here. Unfortunately, the two feet of snow on the ground made that rather difficult. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Calvin, Damian, Free Museums, Not Really a Museum Museum, Old Lyme, Outdoor Museums, Public/Outdoor Art

380. Wells Dinosaur Haven

April 4, 2018 by Steve 1 Comment

Oh Well(s) Montville, (Google Maps location) March 30, 2018 This little place is super cool and the artist that created it is super cool. My kids thought it was super cool. I want to be sure you understand this before you continue... For the Wells Dinosaur Haven has clearly seen better days. Heck, it was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, CT Dino Trail, Damian, Dinosaurs, Free Museums, Montville, Not Really a Museum Museum, Outdoor Museums

344. Best Video Film & Cultural Center

February 27, 2018 by Steve Leave a Comment

When “Best” Also Means “Only” Hamden (Google Maps location) February 25, 2017 Too often, I feel the need to explain myself as to why I lump certain places into my liberal definition of what constitutes a museum. I fully realize that many places I categorize as such are not museums in anything but the broadest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Hamden, Not Really a Museum Museum

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