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CTMQ > Closed/Gone/Former

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

429. The Hitchcock Museum

May 18, 2008 by Steve 6 Comments

Sit Down for This One... Barkhamsted RIP, slow death 1997-2005 Since I put this page together and after the museum closed, the company was revived and continues to live on: The Hitchcock Chair Company I'm not into classic Americana furniture in the least, nor will I ever be. I'll take a Le Corbusier Chair or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Barkhamsted, Closed/Gone/Former, Litchfield County

Farm Implement Museum (Closed)

March 16, 2008 by Steve 5 Comments

Implementing Closure Bloomfield RIP, early to mid-00's I'm just bummed I missed out on a museum with the word "implement" in the name. Because that's cool. And by all accounts, this museum was most definitely cool. I recall an article in our local free weekly paper about it a few years ago which made me say to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Bloomfield, Closed/Gone/Former, Farms, Hartford County, Tools

CT Audubon Society Center of Glastonbury (Closed)

March 9, 2008 by Steve 2 Comments

Owl, That's Gotta Hurt Glastonbury (Google Maps Location) March 8, 2008 The location closed in mid-2020. With seven other Audubon Society museums scattered around the state, I've issued myself a personal challenge to come up with good titles each time. This will not be easy, I assure you. Having only visited … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Animals, audubon, Birds, Closed/Gone/Former, Damian, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Hoang, Natural History, Nature Centers

The Rosa Ponselle Museum (Closed)

February 28, 2008 by Steve 5 Comments

The Fat Lady Has Sung... Meriden RIP, Mid-00's ... And this museum is over. Yes, another of the Lester Dequaine triumvirate of wildly random museums - the Rosa Ponselle Museum - is closed along with the National Shaving and Barbershop Museum and the Frank Chiarenza Museum of Glass. I have seen Mr. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Lester Dequaine museums, Meriden, New Haven County

The Frank Chiarenza Museum of Glass (Closed)

February 27, 2008 by Steve 4 Comments

Shattered Dreams Meriden RIP, mid-00's I have seen Mr. Desquaine’s name spelled Dequaine equally. A commenter elsewhere yelled at me and wrote “Dequaine” so I’ll go with that. Astute readers and Connecticut museum-goers know that the Frank Chiarenza Museum of Glass closed along with it's sister Lester Dequaine … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Art, Closed/Gone/Former, Lester Dequaine museums, Meriden, New Haven County

National Shaving and Barbershop Museum (Closed)

February 27, 2008 by Steve 7 Comments

One More Museum Gets Trimmed Meriden RIP, mid-00's I have seen Mr. Desquaine’s name spelled Dequaine equally. A commenter elsewhere yelled at me and wrote “Dequaine” so I’ll go with that. I am very disappointed I never got to check out this museum. Is there anything more random than a museum dedicated to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Lester Dequaine museums, Meriden, Middlesex County

1st Company Governor’s Horse Guards Cavalry Museum (Closed)

February 22, 2008 by Steve 4 Comments

It's Closed?! Neigh! Avon RIP, Late 1990's (?) Avon, Connecticut: Voted one of the "preppiest" places in the United States in the 1980s best-seller "The Official Preppy Handbook." Avon: home of a school that looks as though it is from a Harry Potter movie. And Avon, where just a couple minutes from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Museums, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Animals, Avon, Closed/Gone/Former, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Hartford County, Military History

The Museum of American Political Life (Closed)

February 16, 2008 by Steve 6 Comments

All Local Politics Museums is Closed The Museum of American Political Life, West Hartford RIP, Summer of 2004 2019 Update: No, this wasn’t the 431st museum I visited. It was somewhere around the 75th. But I decided to roll these post-closure “visits” into my general Museum Visits list so I have one less list to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Colleges & Universities, Hartford County, UHa, West Hartford

CRRA Trash Museum (Closed)

November 24, 2007 by Steve 7 Comments

Hey! Don't Trash This Museum! Hartford (Google Maps Location) September 27, 2007 This museum closed in the summer of 2016. I'm often asked where my love of writing came from. My answer is always the same - "I have no idea." I have a much easier time answering where my love of travel and exploration came from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Free Museums, Hartford, Hartford County

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