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CTMQ > Tiny Museums

Interactive Periodic Table Mini-Museum

January 26, 2026 by Steve Leave a Comment

Your Periodic Reminder that Many Social Media Influencers Are Idiots Interactive Periodic Table Mini-Museum, Mansfield (Location) November 2025 Connecticut museum visit #551. In the new world of dystopian brain-melting stupidity that we live in where hate is a virtue and science is demonized... where measles … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Free Museums, Mansfield, Not Really a Museum Museum, Storrs, Tiny Museums, UConn

Old Stone School House

January 5, 2026 by Steve Leave a Comment

Stone Cold Stunner Old Stone School House, Farmington (Location) December 2025 Connecticut museum visit #553. Of course I'd had this Farmington Historical Society gem on my list of Connecticut museums for years and years. It was always just one of those, "oh yeah, that. I'll get to it someday" places. Well, … [Read more...]

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Ashford Academy

December 21, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

It's Academic at This Point Ashford Academy, Ashford November 2025 Connecticut museum visit #550. Yeah. It really is academic at this point. What is? One room school house museums. I love visiting Connecticut's museums and I love writing this website. A website that began in 2006. A time when the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Ashford, ashford historical society, Free Museums, Rarely Open, School Houses, Tiny Museums

Old South End School

November 24, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Southie Old South End School, Southington (Location) June 2025 Connecticut museum visit #545. I've been on a run of one-room schoolhouse museums lately. I'm very happy that each and every preserved building is preserved. These little museums are cool glimpses into small town Connecticut history. But, since I … [Read more...]

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Simsbury Free Library

January 22, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Eno's Traffic Simsbury Free Library, Simsbury November 2024 Connecticut museum visit #540. Funny story: I visited this library within a week or two of visiting another unique library in New Haven. There was no question in my brain that that library can be called a museum. But this one in Simsbury? I waffled. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums, New Post Tagged With: Free Museums, Libraries, Not Really a Museum Museum, Simsbury, Tiny Museums

Rocky Hill Fire Museum

October 16, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

A Rocky Future? Rocky Hill Fire Museum, Rocky Hill (Google Maps location) October 2024 Connecticut museum visit #525. There it is. Prominently standing tall in front of Rocky Hill's library, Congregational church, senior center, Academy Hall Museum, and town hall. Everyone who passes nearby sees it: The Rocky … [Read more...]

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The Rock School

July 9, 2024 by Steve 1 Comment

School of Rock The Rock School, Colebrook (Google Maps location) June 2024 Connecticut museum visit #519. Here we are again. At yet another one-room school house museum. On the outside looking in. And that's fine. I came to a point in my decades-long adventure when I realized that there's really no need … [Read more...]

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Pegasus and Niche Galleries at MxCC

January 8, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

Niche Indeed Middletown (Google Maps location) December 2023 CT museum visit #514. I might be the first person to ever drive to the out-of-the-way Middlesex Community College campus for the sole purpose of seeing its two tiny art galleries who is not a close friend or relative of an exhibited artist. Hooray for … [Read more...]

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Aetna Museum (Closed)

December 7, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

Aetna, Glad I Met Ya. I Guess. Hartford November 1999 CT museum visit #493, even though it closed to the public in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks and is probably in storage now. CVS purchased Aetna in 2018 for $69 billion. There aren't too many museums included on CTMQ that closed several years before CTMQ began. … [Read more...]

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Mirtollucci & Sons Oddities Museum (Closed)

September 26, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

Disappearing Act Southington After a very brief existence, this museum closed in... 2020? Ish? At least I'm pretty sure it's closed. I've reached out to David Mirto, the owner, funder, collector, teacher, and showman responsible for this place through a variety of means a number of times over the course of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: basement museums, Closed/Gone/Former, Southington, Tiny Museums

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