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193. Berlin Agricultural Lions Museum

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193. Berlin Agricultural Lions Museum

This is What A-Tractored Her To Me! Berlin (Google Maps location) October 3, 2010 This museum is open only at the Berlin Fair As many of you know, I’m not from these parts. In addition to not having grown up with town agricultural fairs (and frankly not really understanding their appeal), it has taken me many … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Berlin, Cars and Trucks, Damian, Fairs and Festivals, Hartford County, Hoang, Rarely Open

192. Berlin Historical Museum at the Berlin Fair

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192. Berlin Historical Museum at the Berlin Fair

Berlin, It's Just Not Fair! Berlin (Google Maps location) October 3, 2010 This museum is only open during the Berlin Fair. Remember way back when… Back when my hair was mostly still dark and Damian was not yet even 18 months old? Back when silly ol’ me thought there were only a few hundred museums in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, Superlatives Tagged With: Berlin, Creepy Dolls, Dubious Claims, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Hartford County, Rarely Open

191. Blue Slope Country Farm Museum

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191. Blue Slope Country Farm Museum

Feeling Blue? Then Go Here Franklin (Google Maps location) October 2, 2010 Hoang was pregnant and tired. Damian has never really enjoyed physical efforts or putzing around at outdoor events. I was struggling with inner thoughts of how I'd make the last museum we visited, the Ashbel Woodward House Museum … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Damian, Fairs and Festivals, Farms, Franklin, Free Museums, Hoang, New London County, Rarely Open, Tools

190. Ashbel Woodward House Museum

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190. Ashbel Woodward House Museum

Franklin My Dear, I DO Give a Damn Franklin (Google Maps location) October 2, 2010 When I say “Franklin,” what image comes to mind? That children’s story turtle? A key and a kite and a bolt of lightning? Ben Franklin himself? Almost certainly not Franklin, Connecticut. Franklin is one of our smaller, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Damian, Franklin, Free Museums, Historic Houses, Hoang, New London County, Rarely Open, Town History

181. CT Agricultural Experiment Station at Lockwood Farm

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181. CT Agricultural Experiment Station at Lockwood Farm

Feeeeeeeeed Meeeee Hamden (Google Maps location) August 4, 2010 Mark your calendars now for the first Wednesday of August. I don’t care in what year you are reading this, it still works. Heck, it’s been working for over 100 years. So I don’t see it stopping any time soon. This “museum” is only “open” (in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Everything Else, Museums Tagged With: Gardens, Hamden, New Haven County, Not Really a Museum Museum, Outdoor Museums, Plants, Rarely Open

198. Governor’s Residence

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198.  Governor’s Residence

One Rell of a Good Time Hartford (Google Maps location) December 4, 2010 I’ve made mention before about how I get a little thrill out of getting to visit rarely open museums (or in this case, museum-like things). Each time I do feels like a big win for me. I’ve had the Governor’s Residence on my CTMQ radar for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: Christmas, Damian, Free Museums, Hartford, Hartford County, Hoang, Not Really a Museum Museum, Rarely Open

184. CT High School Coaches Assoc. Hall of Fame

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184. CT High School Coaches Assoc. Hall of Fame

I waited 5 years for this?! Hartford (Google Maps location) August 14, 2010 For the first time in 184 museums I'm at a loss for words. I really have nothing to say about the Connecticut High School Coaches Hall of Fame. Though shouldn't it be "Coaches'?" It's their Hall of Fame, right? But as you'll see in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: East Hartford, Halls of Fame, Hartford County, Not Really a Museum Museum, Rarely Open, Tiny Museums

109. Connecticut Museum of Glass

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109. Connecticut Museum of Glass

A Bit Glassy Eyed Coventry, (Google Maps location) May 30, 2009 Screw it. I’m forging ahead and writing this post. Why the hesitation? For starters, the Connecticut Museum of Glass is not open. Okay, so why bother pretending I visited it? Well, because I did, that’s why. I’ve been following the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Coventry, Industrial History, Rarely Open, Tolland County

130. Buz Russell’s Farm and Rural Life Museum

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130. Buz Russell’s Farm and Rural Life Museum

Let's Generate some Buz For This Museum Woodbury (Google Maps Location) July 24, 2009 I always feel cheap when the title pun is so easy. Oh well, I'll get over it. What I'll never get over is how many museums there are in Connecticut and that feeling of elation I still get when discovering ones I didn't know … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Damian, Free Museums, Litchfield County, Rarely Open, Tiny Museums, Tools, Woodbury

56. Captain John Francis House Museum (RIP)

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56. Captain John Francis House Museum (RIP)

O My! Captain! You're Not a Captain! Wethersfield (Google Maps Location) June 14, 2008 Closed as a museum in 2018. O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;  The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;  The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Free Museums, Hartford County, historic house museums, Historic Houses, Rarely Open, Wethersfield, wethersfield historical society

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