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CTMQ > 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

Weed-Enders House

November 6, 2008 by Steve 1 Comment

Totally Smokin' Weed-Enders, Man Granby (Google Maps Location) July 2008 This is one of several Salmon Brook Historical Society Museums. As part of our four part museum tour of the Salmon Brook Historical Society's properties in Granby, I was granted a peek inside the Weed-Enders House. While it is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Damian, Granby, Historic Houses, salmon brook historical society, Tiny Museums

73. New Britain Local History Room

October 2, 2008 by Steve 26 Comments

Fafnir for the Common New Britain Man New Britain (Google Maps Location) October 1, 2008 Update: I likely wouldn't include this place in my list of museums now, but I did in 2008, so here we are. Being married to a woman who grew up in New Britain from the tender age of two until I married her 29 years … [Read more...]

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

Little Boston School House Museum

September 22, 2008 by Steve Leave a Comment

Err-ah, Lahhn Ya Three Ahhhhs East Lyme (Google Maps Location) June 2008 Bostonese-to-English title translation of the title above: "Hello, Learn Your Three R's." Nestled next to the far more expansive and interesting Thomas Lee House Museum is this little one-room schoolhouse museum. I won't lie to you: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: East Lyme, Free Museums, School Houses, Tiny Museums

54. Merritt Parkway Museum

August 12, 2008 by Steve Leave a Comment

A Museum Not Without Merritt Stratford (Google Maps Location) June 2, 2008 2019 update: Since writing this, there have been widening, tree-clearing, and off/on-ramp improvements to the Merritt. It's still mildly charming and dangerous however. What is a museum? According to Webster's (and since Noah Webster … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Cars and Trucks, Free Museums, National Scenic Byways, Roads and Tunnels, Stratford, Tiny Museums

Cooley School Museum

August 11, 2008 by Steve 4 Comments

Too Cooley For Schooley Granby (Google Maps Location) July 2008 This is one of several Salmon Brook Historical Society Museums. This place has changed quite a bit since 2008 and is now open as part of regular tours. Looks like I'll have to revisit someday. Granby, Connecticut. Famous for... err... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Damian, Granby, salmon brook historical society, School Houses, Tiny Museums

48. Connecticut Hall of Fame

May 14, 2008 by Steve 1 Comment

Yay Connecticut! Hartford (Google Maps Location) May 12, 2008 Seriously. I could be accused of padding my museum visit numbers with this entry, but I'm not. While touring the State Capitol and the nearby Legislative Office Building (Way more interesting than it sounds) I was drawn and excited by a large sign … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Free Museums, Halls of Fame, Hartford, Not Really a Museum Museum, State History, Tiny Museums

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