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...]
429. The Hitchcock Museum
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...]
Farm Implement Museum (Closed)
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...]
CT Audubon Society Center of Glastonbury (Closed)
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...]
The Rosa Ponselle Museum (Closed)
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...]
The Frank Chiarenza Museum of Glass (Closed)
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...]
National Shaving and Barbershop Museum (Closed)
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...]
1st Company Governor’s Horse Guards Cavalry Museum (Closed)
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...]
The Museum of American Political Life (Closed)
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...]
CRRA Trash Museum (Closed)
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...]