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CTMQ > Rarely Open

181. CT Agricultural Experiment Station at Lockwood Farm

December 1, 2011 by Steve 1 Comment

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

December 8, 2010 by Steve 2 Comments

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

CT High School Coaches Assoc. Hall of Fame

September 20, 2010 by Steve 2 Comments

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: Damian, East Hartford, Halls of Fame, Hartford County, Not Really a Museum Museum, Rarely Open, rentschler field, Tiny Museums

109. Connecticut Museum of Glass

November 19, 2009 by Steve 2 Comments

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

September 29, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

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

Captain John Francis House Museum (Closed)

June 29, 2008 by Steve 7 Comments

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

Witch’s Dungeon Classic Movie Museum

May 27, 2007 by Steve 8 Comments

Putting the "Horror" in "Horrorible" Bristol (Google Maps Location) October 29, 2006 In 2014, this museum moved its location from Battle Street over to the beautiful Bristol Historical Society building, which changes a lot of what I experienced in 2006. Obviously. Wow. What a surreal experience it is to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, Superlatives Tagged With: Bristol, Hartford County, Largests Longests Mosts Smallests and Tallests, Rarely Open, Tiny Museums

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