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CTMQ > Tiny Museums

211. Norwich Arts Center Gallery

May 29, 2011 by Steve 3 Comments

EnABLING Forgery Norwich (Google Maps location) May 28, 2011 Have you ever driven around downtown Norwich? Of course you have if you've ever tried the "short cut" to the casinos thinking you'd just follow route 2 through town. Ha. It's a mess - a very oddly laid out mess. As we circled to and fro around the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Art, Free Museums, Norwich, Tiny Museums

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, Not Really a Museum Museum, Rarely Open, rentschler field, Tiny Museums

168. Hall Memorial Library Exhibits

June 23, 2010 by Steve Leave a Comment

All Hail Hallowed Hall at Hall Ellington (Google Maps location) May 19, 2010 Somewhere along the CTMQ way, after readers kept pushing me to check out various libraries around the state for various reasons, I finally began to poke around what they have to offer. It’s a sketchy can of worms to open up for a few … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Ellington, Free Museums, Libraries, Not Really a Museum Museum, Tiny Museums, Town History

167. Fairfield County Sports Hall of Fame

May 27, 2010 by Steve 1 Comment

I Went Here Just to Make Fun of Bruce Jenner Stamford (Google Maps location) May 8, 2010 Note: The title and content of this page were all written well before Bruce Jenner became Caitlyn so I wasn't making fun of her for any of the gender stuff. Since the Connecticut Sports Hall of Fame disappeared* with the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, Free Museums, Halls of Fame, Stamford, Tiny Museums, UConn

Haddam Shad Museum

January 20, 2010 by Steve 7 Comments

Shadrach, InnaShack and AwayWeGo Haddam Google Maps Location May 2009 The singular Dr. Joseph Zaientz passed away in March of 2023, but his beloved Shad Museum will continue. The building was moved to the grounds of the Haddam Historical Society and will continue on into the future. It lost a lot of its … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Damian, Fish, Free Museums, Haddam, Hoang, Tiny Museums

145. District No. 1 Schoolhouse

December 14, 2009 by Steve 1 Comment

No Matter How Bad Their Team, They’re Still Number 1 Bethlehem (Google Maps Location) December 5, 2009 As you can imagine, it is indeed rare for me to find out about a museum I was unaware of. It is far more rare to find one while driving around doing other stuff. And it is exceedingly rare to find one while … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Bethlehem, Free Museums, School Houses, Tiny Museums

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, Rarely Open, Tiny Museums, Tools, Woodbury

Waterbury Button Museum

August 11, 2009 by Steve 32 Comments

This Museum is as Cute as a ... Waterbury (Google Maps Location) August 2009 CT Museum #135 When you're the third smallest state in the US and you still manage to cram in so many hundreds of museums, it stands to reason that a good percentage of them will be tiny. I've seen my share - and can't determine which … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Industrial History, museum within a museum, Tiny Museums, Waterbury

108. Plainville Library Museum

May 29, 2009 by Steve 2 Comments

All of Their Eggs in One Basket Plainville (Google Maps Location) May 28, 2009 Adhering to CTMQ bylaw 9.7 - "If they call themselves a museum, it's a museum" - I hereby present to you the smallest museum I’ve visited to date. I'll be quite surprised to find one smaller on my quest... But one never knows. (Which … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Birds, Free Museums, Libraries, native american history, Natural History, Plainville, Tiny Museums

95. Middletown Sports Hall of Fame and Museum

April 21, 2009 by Steve 2 Comments

Wesleyan Beer Pong Champion Huzzah! Middletown (Google Maps Location) March 16, 2009 Many towns in Connecticut have Sports Halls of Fame to honor their own heroes. The large majority of these are not worthy of this fine blog however, as they are merely a few plaques stuck on the wall of the town hall or Senior … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Free Museums, Halls of Fame, Middletown, Tiny Museums

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