Every Museum in Connecticut
Circa 2000 onward
This is it. The list that started it all. If you’re looking for more than museums in a particular town, please check out the CTMQ Town Guides. Everything on CTMQ is based on our 169 towns. So there are no separate listings for non-towns like Mystic, Danielson, Willimantic, Winsted, Rockville, Storrs, etc. I can’t say how many museums there are in Connecticut, because everyone has a different definition of what a museum is and isn’t. But there are around 700 listed below. I hope to visit and write about them all.
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Andover
Ansonia
Ansonia Fire Museum
Ansonia Nature Center
General David Humphreys House
Ashford
Ashford Academy (Potential Future Museum)
Horizon Wings Raptor Rehab
Lance Arnold Studio and Fairy House Trail
Nathan Hale Heritage Center at June Norcross Webster Camp
Tremko-Stebbins House Museum (Potential Future Museum)
Avon
1st Co. Horse Guard Barn Museum (Potential future museum)
1st Co. Horse Guard Cavalry Museum (Closed)
Derrin House
Farmington Valley Arts Center
Ordway Gallery and Hall of Fame at Avon Old Farms
Pine Grove Schoolhouse
Schoolhouse No. 3 (Closed & Potential future museum)
Talcott Mountain Science Center
Barkhamsted
Center School Schoolhouse
Hitchcock Museum (Closed)
Merrill Tavern (Potential Future Museum)
Peoples State Forest Nature Museum
Peter Greenwood Glass Blowing Studio
Squire’s Tavern
Beacon Falls
Rimmon School House (Potential future museum)
Berlin
Berlin Agricultural Lions Museum
Berlin Historical Museum at the Berlin Fair
Berlin Historical Society Museum
Hungerford Nature Center/Youth Museum
Worthington Meeting House (Potential future museum)
Bethany
Bethany Historical Society Museum
Bethany Museum of Impressionism
Josef & Anni Albers Foundation
Russell Homestead Barn Museum
Bethel
Bethel Fire Museum
Bethel Historical Society Museum
Plumtrees Schoolhouse
Trailer Box Project
Bethlehem
550 Gallery
Abbey at Regina Laudis Crèche
Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden
Bethlehem Fair Vintage Museum
District No 1 Schoolhouse
Old Bethlem Museum
Bloomfield
4-H Education Center at Auer Farm
Auer Farm Mushroom Barn Museum (Potential future museum)
Captain Oliver Filley House (Potential future museum)
Fannie R. Gabriel History Center
The Farm Implement Museum (Closed)
Old Farm School Museum
New England Muscle Bicycle Museum (Closed)
SW District School (Potential future museum)
Bolton
None
Bozrah
None
Branford
Harrison House Museum & Barn
Shoreline Art Space
Shore Line Trolley Museum
Stony Creek Museum
Bridgeport
Artspace Gallery
Barnum Museum
Beardsley Zoo
Carousel Museum at the Beardsley Zoo
City Lights Gallery
The Discovery Science Center & Planetarium
Dundon House at Captain’s Cove
First in Flight Museum at Captain’s Cove
Housatonic Museum of Art
The Knowlton Art Park
The Mary & Eliza Freeman Center for History and Community (Potential Future Museum)
Schelfhaudt Gallery at UB
Bridgewater
Captain Burnham House
The Elijah Peck House
Bristol
American Clock & Watch Museum
Barnes Memorial Nature Center
The Bristol Center for Arts & Culture
Bristol Historical Society Museum
Bristol Memorial Military Museum
Bristol Sports Hall of Fame
Imagine Nation Children’s Museum
Indian Rock Nature Center
Museum of Fire History
Museum of Greek Culture
New England Carousel Museum
Witch’s Dungeon Classic Movie Museum (Moved to Plainville)
Brookfield
Brookfield Craft Center
Brookfield Museum
Brookfield Nature Center and Rock Museum
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Historical Society Museum
Daniel Putnam Tyler Law Office
Putnam Elms
Burlington
Elton Tavern Museum
Burlington State Fish Hatchery
Center Schoolhouse
Lamothe’s Sugar House
Sessions Woods Nature Center
Canaan
Beebe Hill School
Falls Village-Canaan Historical Society
South Canaan Meeting House
Canterbury
Finnish-American Historical Society Museum
Green District Schoolhouse
Haul of Fame Trucking Museum
Prudence Crandall Museum
Canton
Canton Historical Museum
Roaring Brook Nature Center
Chaplin
Chaplin Museum (Closed)
Cheshire
Barker Character Comic & Cartoon Museum & Art Gallery
California Raisins, Gumby, and CelebriDucks Museums
Hitchcock-Phillips House
Kohn-Joseloff Gallery at Cheshire Academy
Lock 12 Historical Park Museum
Riverbound Farm Nature Center
Sage MiniMuseum Multiplex
Chester
Chester Museum at the Mill
Clinton
Adam Stanton House
Andrews Town Hall CHS Museum
Buell Tool Museum
Captain Elisha White House
Clinton Arts Gallery
Little Red Schoolhouse
Colchester
Bacon Academy Museum
Hayward Fire Museum
Colchester History Museum at The Hayward House
Nathaniel Foote House
One-Room Schoolhouse for Colored Children
Zagray Farm Museum
Colebrook
Colebrook Historical Society Museum
Rock Schoolhouse
Columbia
Cornwall
Cornwall Historical Society Museum
Souterrain Gallery
Coventry
Brick School House
Connecticut Museum of Glass
Coventry Visitor’s Center
David Hayes Museum (Potential future museum)
David Hayes Sculpture Fields
Nathan Hale Homestead
Special Joys Doll and Toy Museum (Closed)
Strong-Porter House
Cromwell
Danbury
Charles Ives Birthplace Museum
Danbury Museum/Huntington Hall
Danbury Railway Museum
Higgins Hall Art Gallery at WCSU
John & Mary Rider House
John Dodd Hat Shop
Little Red & Old King Street Schoolhouses
Marian Anderson Studio
Military Museum of Southern New England (Closed)
The Museum in the Streets
Old Quarry Nature Center
Richter House & Gallery
Still River Editions Art Gallery
Tarrywile Mansion
VPAC Gallery at WCSU West
WCSU Observatories and Planetarium
Darien
Darien Nature Center
The Mather Homestead and Chilton Education Center
Museum of Darien
Deep River
Deep River Historical Society at Stone House
Nautical Arts Workshop Gallery
Derby
Kellogg Environmental Center
Lower Naugatuck Valley Industrial Heritage Center/Howe House (Potential future museum)
Osborne Homestead Museum
Durham
Durham Historical Society at Center School House
Durham Fair Farm Museum
Charlie Mack’s Matchbox & Lesney Toy Museum
William Kent Charitable Foundation Gallery
East Granby
East Granby Historical Society Museum
Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine
Viets Tavern (Potential future museum)
East Haddam
Allegra Farm Living Museum
Amasa Day House Museum
East Haddam Historical Society Museum
Gillette Castle
Goodspeed Opera House
I-Park
Jail Museum (Potential future museum)
Max Showalter Center for Education in Musical Theatre
Nathan Hale Schoolhouse
Palmer-Warner House
East Hampton
Apollas Arnold House (Potential future museum)
Chatham Historical Society Museum & School House
Goff House Museum and Cultural Center
East Hartford
Burnham Blacksmith Shop
The Children’s Museum (Potential Future Museum; from West Hartford)
Connecticut BioBlitz
Connecticut High School Coaches’ Association Hall of Fame
Connecticut River Valley Wildlife Museum
Deacon John Goodwin House (Potential Future Museum)
Edward E. King Museum (Gone)
Goodwin School House
Hockanum Hose Fire Museum
The Hubble Museum
Iwo Jima/WWII Traveling Museum
Lincoln Financial Sculpture Walk
Makens Bemont House
PhotoSynthesis Gallery
Pratt & Whitney Hangar Museum
Selden Brewer House
East Haven
East Haven Historical Society Museum
The Shore Line Trolley Museum
East Lyme (including Niantic)
Brookside Farm Museum
Little Boston Schoolhouse
Niantic Children’s Museum
Rocky Neck State Park Nature Center (Closed)
Samuel Smith Farmstead
Thomas Lee House
East Windsor
Agonist Gallery (Closed)
Academy Museum
Barber Hill School House
Broad Brook Barber Shop Museum
Broad Brook Probate Court Museum
Connecticut Fire Museum
Connecticut Motor Coach Museum
Connecticut Trolley Museum
EWHS Farm Tool Museum
Osborn House Museum
Thrall Hall (Private)
Eastford
The Florence Warren Latham Museum of Eastford History
Easton
Adams Schoolhouse
Bradley-Hubbell House Museum and Barn
Silverman’s Animal Farm
Ellington
Hall Memorial Library History Room & Exhibits
Nellie E. McKnight Museum
Enfield
Enfield Athletic Hall of Fame
LEGO History Museum (Gone)
Martha A. Parsons House
Old Town Hall Museum
The Riverside Reptiles Education Center
Wallop School Museum
Essex
Bushy Hill Nature Center
Connecticut River Museum
Essex Art Association
Griswold Inn Art/History Tour
Hills Academy History Center
Ivoryton Playhouse
Museum of the Fife and Drum
Pratt House Museum
River Valley Junction Steam Train Museum
Fairfield
Art & Design Gallery at SHU
Art/Place Gallery
Bellarmine Museum of Art
Burr Mansion
CT Audubon Center at Fairfield
CT Audubon Society Birdcraft Museum
Fairfield Academy & Barn
Fairfield Museum & History Center
Kershner Gallery in the Fairfield Public Library
Ogden House and Gardens
Sun Tavern
Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery
Farmington
Gilbert and Donaldson Art Galleries at Miss Porter’s School
Barnes and Hackman Franklin Art Gallery at Tunxis CC
Gridley-Parsons-Staples Homestead
Hartford Medical Society Historical Library
Hill-Stead Museum
Lewis-Walpole Library and Museum
Monastery Gallery of Art
Nature’s Porch Environmental Center
Old Stone Schoolhouse
Stanley-Whitman House
UConn Public Art Collection: UConn Health Center
Unionville Museum
William Day Museum of Indian Artifacts (Potential future Museum)
Franklin
Blue Slope Country Museum
Dr. Ashbel Woodward Museum
Glastonbury
Audubon Center at Glastonbury (Closed)
GEHMS Planetarium
Museum on the Green
Tobacco Museum (Potential future museum)
Welles-Shipman-Ward House
Goshen
Action Wildlife Foundation
Goshen History Museum
Purple Door Gallery & Sculpture Grounds
Granby
Abijah Rowe House
Colton-Hayes Tobacco Barn
Cooley Schoolhouse
Strain Family Horse Farm Cowboy Museum
Weed-Enders House
Greenwich
Audubon Greenwich
The Bendheim Gallery
The Brant Foundation Art Study Center
Bruce Museum
Bush-Holley House Museum
Bruce Museum Seaside Center
Greenwich Arts Society Gallery
Greenwich Botanical Center
Greenwich Historical Society Museum
Putnam Cottage
Seven Bridges
Griswold
Griswold Historical Society Museum
Groton (including part of Mystic)
Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art
Anna Warner “Mother” Bailey House
Avery-Copp Museum
Bill Memorial Library Museum
Ebenezer Avery House Museum
Jabez Smith House
Monument House Museum at Fort Griswold
Mystic Museum of Art
Portersville Academy at Mystic River Historical Society
Red Shed and Latham/Chester Store Museum
Submarine Force Museum
Sylvan Street Noank History Museum
UConn Public Art Collection
Guilford
Dawnland Collection and Quinnipiac Tribal Museum
The Dudley Farm Museum
Edith B. Nettleton Historical Room
Guilford Art Center
Henry Whitfield State Museum
Hyland House
Medad Stone Tavern Museum
Shoreline Outdoor Education Center
Thomas Griswold House Museum
Woodruff Barn Farm Museum
Haddam
Haddam Shad Museum
Thankful Arnold House
Veteran’s Museum
Hamden
Best Video Film and Cultural Center
Eli Whitney Museum & Workshop
Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum (Closed, moving to Fairfield)
Jonathan Dickerman House
CT Agricultural Experiment Station at Lockwood Farm
Lock Keepers House and Museum
Moira Fitzsimmons Arons Art Gallery
Paier College of Art Gallery
Perspectives Gallery @ The Whitney Center
PLACE Children’s Museum
Thornton Wilder Hall/Miller Cultural Complex
Hampton
Audubon Center at Trail Wood
Burnham-Hibbard House
Edwin Way Teale Writing Cabin & Museum
Goodwin Conservation Center Museum
Hartford
29th Regiment Connecticut Infantry Museum (Potential Future Museum)
Aetna Insurance Museum (Closed)
The American Museum of the Free Publication Distribution Box
The Amistad Center for Art & Culture
ArtSpace Hartford
Bushnell Theater
Butler-McCook Homestead
Charter Oak Cultural Center Gallery
Clare Art Gallery
Coltsville National Historic Park Museum (Potential future museum)
Connecticut Culture and Tourism Gallery (Closed)
Connecticut Hall of Fame
onnecticut Museum of Culture and History
Connecticut Science Center
Connecticut Supreme Court
CRRA Visitors Center & Trash Museum (Closed)
Curioporium
First Company Governor’s Foot Guard Armory Museum
Governor’s Residence
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Hartford History Center & ArtWalk
Hartford Police Museum (Closed)
Hartford Public High School Museum
Institute of Living Museum
International Cricket Hall of Fame
Isham-Terry House
John E. Rogers African American Cultural Center (Potential future museum)
Legislative Office Building
Lincoln Financial Sculpture Walk
Mark Twain House
The Mary Fields ‘Stagecoach Mary’ Museum & Conference Center
Menczer Museum of Medicine & Dentistry in Hartford (Closed)
Morgan Gardner Bulkeley Historical Center
Museum of Connecticut History
The Old State House & Museum of Curiosities
Real Art Ways
Social House Selfie Museum
State Capitol building
Travelers Insurance Museum (Closed)
UConn Public Art Collection
Wadsworth Atheneum
Watkinson Library Virtual Museum
West Indian Museum (Potential Future Museum)
Widener Art Gallery
WTIC Alumni Virtual Museum
Hartland
Harwinton
Harwinton Barn Museum
Center Schoolhouse
T. A. Hungerford Library Museum
Hebron
Burrows Hill Schoolhouse
Ed Hodge Agricultural Museum at the Hebron Harvest Fair
Eeyore and Donkey Museum
Gull Schoolhouse
Old Town Hall
Peters House Museum (Potential future museum)
World War II Observation Post Mini-Museum
Kent
Connecticut Antique Machinery Association Museum
Connecticut Museum of Mining and Mineral Science
Cream Hill Agricultural School
Eric Sloane Museum and Kent Iron Furnace Site
The Gallery at Kent Art Association
Sculpturedale
Seven Hearths
Skiff Mountain Schoolhouse
Killingly (including Danielson)
Killingly Historical Society Museum(s)
Spirol Art Gallery
Killingworth
Black Rock Schoolhouse
Chatfield Hollow SP Nature Center
Parmelee House and Barns
Pine Orchard School House
Platt Nature Center
Union District Schoolhouse>
Lebanon
Broomshop, Smokehouse, Pastor’s Library, etc.
Dr. William Beaumont House
Governor Trumbull House & Wadsworth Stable
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., House
Lebanon Museum and Visitor Center
Revolutionary War Office
Ledyard
Gales Ferry Schoolhouse
Gallery Selfie Museum
Geer Hill Schoolhouse
Nathan Lester House and Farm Tool Museum
Mashantucket Pequot Museum
Sawmill Park Mill Museum
Lisbon
Burnham Tavern (Potential future museum)
John Bishop House
Litchfield
amArtHouse
Cowboy Al’s Wild West Museum
Litchfield History Museum
Livingston Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy
Marie Louise Trichet Gallery
Space Age Museum (Private)
Tapping Reeve House and Law School
Topsmead
White Memorial Conservation Center and Nature Museum
Lyme
Madison
Allis-Bushnell House
Bauer Park Farm Museum
Deacon John Grave House
Lee Academy
Mary C. Daly RSM Art Gallery at Mercy by the Sea
Meigs Point Nature Center
The Sculpture Mile
Manchester
Cheney Hall
Cheney Homestead
Dehn Gallery (Closed)
The Fire Museum
Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery at MCCC
Keeney Schoolhouse
Lutz Children’s Museum
Manchester History Center & Loom Room
Old Manchester Museum
PhotoSynthesis Gallery (Moved to East Hartford)
Wickham Park Nature Center and Aviary
Woodbridge Farmstead Museum
Mansfield (Including UConn/Storrs)
Atwood Farm Museum
Gurleyville Grist Mill
Mansfield Historical Society Museum
UConn
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
Connecticut State Museum of Natural History (Closed)
Dodd Center & Homer Babbidge Library Exhibits
UConn EEB Greenhouses & Collections
UConn EEB Collection of Preserved Specimens
Hellenic Museum & Macedonia Building
J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum
Jorgensen Gallery
Josephine A. Dolan Nursing Museum
Rettenmeyer Army Ant Guest Collection
Uconn Animal Barns
UConn Contemporary Art Gallery
UConn Observatory and Planetarium
UConn Public Art Collection
Wilbur Cross Gallery (Gone)
William Benton Museum of Art
Marlborough
Meriden
Connecticut State Police Museum & Education Center
Frank Chiarenza Museum of Glass (Closed)
Meriden Historical Society Museum and History Center
The Moses Andrews Homestead Museum
National Shaving and Barbershop Museum (Closed)
Rosa Ponselle Museum (Closed)
Solomon Goffe House
Middlebury
Golden Age of Trucking Museum (Closed)
Middlebury Historical Society Museum
The Schumacher Gallery at Westover School
Middlefield
Middlefield Historical Society Museum
Powder Hill Dinosaur Park
Middletown
Adath Israel Judaica Museum
General Mansfield House
Greater Middletown Military Museum
Kid City
Middletown Sports Hall of Fame and Museum
Pegasus Gallery & The Niche at MxCC
The Rockfall Foundation and C.S. Wadsworth Living Museum
Submarine Library and Museum (Closed)
Wadsworth Mansion at Long Hill Estate
Wesleyan
Davison Art Center
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Freeman Center/E. Asian Studies Gallery
Joe Webb Peoples Museum
Rick Nicita Gallery & Cinema Archives
Milford
Audubon Coastal Center at Milford Point
Bryan-Downs House
Clark-Stockade House
Eells-Stow House
MAC & Firehouse Galleries
SCELBI Computer Virtual Museum
Monroe
East Village Barn Hill Schoolhouse
East Village Meeting House
Eliot Beardsley Homestead
The Warren Occult Museum (Closed)
Webb Mountain Discovery Zone Outdoor Museum
Montville
Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame
Dinosaur Place at Nature’s Art
Fort Shantok
The Gateway Genius Museum
Mohegan Congregational Church Museum
Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum
Wells Dinosaur Haven
Morris
James Morris Museum
The Mill School
Naugatuck
New Britain
Art League of New Britain Gallery
Chen Fine Arts Gallery at CCSU
Copernican Observatory and Planetarium
GNBAA Stockman Gallery
Immigrant Heritage Hall of Fame
New Britain Industrial Museum
New Britain Local History Room
New Britain Museum of American Art
New Britain Police Museum
New Britain Youth Museum
Sloper-Wesoly Immigrant Heritage and Cultural Center
New Canaan
Carriage Barn Arts Center
Eliot Noyes House
Grace Farms
NCHS Cody Drug Store
NCHS Costume Museum
NCHS Gores Pavillion
NCHS Hanford-Silliman House
NCHS New Canaan Town House
NCHS The Little Red Schoolhouse
NCHS The Rock School
NCHS The Rogers Studio and Museum
NCHS The Tool Museum
New Canaan Nature Center
Philip Johnson’s Glass House
Silvermine Guild Arts Center Gallery
New Fairfield
Boyajian Sculpture Barn
Hubbell House and Parsonage
Little Red Schoolhouse
New Hartford
New Hartford Historical Society
New Haven
Arts Council of Greater New Haven Galleries (Closed)
ArtSpace New Haven
Barnard Nature Center
Buley Library Art Gallery (SCSU)
City Gallery
City Hall
Coast Guard Station New Haven
Common Ground HS Outdoor Museum
Connecticut Children’s Museum
Creative Arts Workshop Galleries
Edgerton Park Greenhouses and Library
Ely Center of Contemporary Art
Ethnic Heritage Center (SCSU)
Fort Nathan Hale
Fred Giampietro Gallery
The Hill Museum of the Arts
Knights of Columbus Museum/Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center
Lighthouse Point Lighthouse and Touch Tank
Lost in New Haven Museum
Lyman Center and Earl Hall Art Galleries (SCSU)
MacDonough Art Gallery (AMC)
The NewAlliance Foundation Art Gallery (GCC)
New Haven Cocktail Museum
New Haven Library Local History Room
New Haven Museum
New Haven Public Art/Museum Without Walls
Pardee-Morris House Museum
Second Company Governor’s Foot Guard
Shubert Theater Tour
Trowbridge Environmental Center
Urban Museum of Modern Architects
West Rock Nature Center
Young Men’s Institute Library & Gallery
Yale
ArtPlace at Yale Physician’s Building (Closed)
Battell Chapel & Amistad Collection
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Hume Furniture Study and the Bass Sack Family Archive
Irving S. Gilmore Music Library Exhibits
Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium
Marsh Botanic Gardens
Native American Cultural Center
Payne-Whitney Gym
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Sterling Memorial Library Exhibits
U.S. Squash Hall of Fame
Whitney Humanities Center Gallery
Wurtele Study Center
Yale Art & Architecture Galleries
Yale University Art Gallery
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
Yale Collection of Public Art
Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Yale Medical Library Cushing Center
Yale School of Art Galleries at Green Hall
Yale Visitor Center
New London
Connecticut College Athletic Hall of Fame
Conn College’s Cummings & White Box Art Galleries
Custom House Maritime Museum
Doll & Toy Mini Museum at Harris Place
Eagle Tall Ship Tour (at USCGA)
Fort Trumbull State Park and Museum
The Hempsted Houses
Hygienic Art Gallery
Linda Lear Center Exhibits
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Monte Cristo Cottage
Nathan Hale Schoolhouse
National Coast Guard Museum (Potential future museum)
New London Ledge Lighthouse Museum
Science EpiCenter & DNA Learning Center (Closed)
Shaw-Perkins Mansion
Thames River Gallery
US Coast Guard Museum
Winthrop/Old Town Mill
New Milford
Brown’s Forge Museum
Gallery 25
Harden House Museum
John J. McCarthy Observatory & Exhibits
Memorial Hall/Local History Room
Merwinsville Hotel
NMHS Gaylord District Schoolhouse
NMHS Hill and Plain School
NMHS Knapp House/New Milford Historical Society Museum
NMHS Northville Schoolhouse
The Pratt Center
The Skitch Henderson Museum & Art Gallery
Newington
ARRL Heritage Museum
The Deming-Young Farm & House Museum
Enoch Kelsey House
Kellogg-Eddy House
Newtown
Cyrenius H. Booth Library & Museum
EverWonder Children’s Museum
Matthew Curtiss House Museum
Middle Gate One Room Schoolhouse
Norfolk
Dr. Egler/Aton Forest Museum
Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate Art Gallery
Norfolk Historical Society Museum
North Branford
Gordon Story Miller Memorial Museum & Little White Gas Station
Lake Gaillard RWA Educational Pavillion (Potential future museum)
Little Red Schoolhouse Museum
The Reynolds-Beers House
North Canaan
Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument
Charles. H. Pease Museum at the Douglas Library
Connecticut Railroad Historical Association Museum
New England Accordion Museum
North Haven
Brockett Farm Implement Museum
Culver-Brockett Museum
Energize CT Center (Closed)
McGuff Museum of Girl Scout History
North Haven Historical Museum
North Stonington
Fields of Dreams Carriage Museum
Marcia Thompson Schoolhouse
Norwalk
Rowayton Antique Tool Barn
Center for Contemporary Printmaking
Fodor Farm Homestead
Frank Raymond Maritime Museum & Boathouse
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum
Maritime Aquarium
Mill Hill Historic Park (3 museums)
New England Auto Museum (Potential future museum)
The Norwalk Art Space
Norwalk CC Art Gallery
Norwalk Historical Society Museum
Seeley-Dibble-Pinkney House
Rowayton Arts Center
Sheffield Island Lighthouse Museum
SoNo Switch Tower Museum
Stepping Stones Museum for Children and revisit
The Stone Barn at Farm Creek Preserve
Norwich
East District School
Gallery at Three Rivers Community College
Joseph Carpenter Silversmith Shop
Leffingwell House Museum
Nathaniel Backus House Museum
Norwich Arts Center Gallery
Norwich Regional Visitor’s Center
Perkins-Rockwell House
Sikh Art Museum
Slater Memorial Museum
Old Lyme
The Cooley Gallery
Florence Griswold Museum
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Galleries
Lyme Art Association Gallery
Nut Museum (Closed, now transient)
Old Lyme Historical Society Museum & Exhibits
Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center
Studio 80 + Sculpture Grounds
Old Saybrook
Fort Saybrook Monument Park
General William Hart House
The Katherine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Museum
Orange
Bryan-Andrew House Museum
Orange Country Fair Farmer’s Museum
Orange Historical Society Museum at The Academy
Pez Visitor Center
Stone-Otis House
Yale Peabody Museum Community Education Center
Oxford
Twitchell-Rowland Homestead Museum
Plainfield
Quinebaug Valley State Trout Hatchery
Plainville
Plainville Historic Center
Plainville Library Museum
Witch’s Dungeon Classic Movie Museum
Plymouth (including Terryville)
Alley House Museum
Lock Museum of America
Toll House Museum
Pomfret
Brayton Grist Mill and Marcy Blacksmith Museum
CT Audubon Society Center at Pomfret
Portland
Connecticut Cellar Savers Fire Museum (Closed)
Quarry View Museum
Ruth Callander House Museum of Portland History
Preston
Preston Blacksmith Museum
Long Society Meetinghouse (Potential future museum)
Young at Heart Doll Shop & Museum (Closed)
Prospect
Center School House
Hotchkiss House Museum
Putnam
Aspinock Historical Society Museum
Cady Copp Homestead at Putnam Heights (Potential future museum)
Gertrude Chandler Warner Boxcar Children Museum
Various Downtown Art Galleries & Fairy Doors
Redding
Highstead
Lonetown Farmhouse Museum
New Pond Farm Education Center
Putnam Memorial State Park Museum
Putnam Memorial State Park Visitor’s Center
Umpawaug School House Museum
Zalmon Read Historic Barn
Ridgefield
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
David Scott House
The Discovery Center at Ridgefield
Keeler Tavern Museum
Kouros Sculpture Center
Museum in the Streets
Peter Parley Schoolhouse
Ridgefield Guild of Artists Galleries
Ridgefield Museum of Military Artifacts (Closed)
Town Hall History Exhibits
Weir Farm National Historical Park
Rocky Hill
Academy Hall Museum
Dinosaur State Park
Roxbury
Double D Living History Farm
Good Hill Schoolhouse
Kelsey Sculpture Garden & Museum
Hodge Memorial Library and Museum
Mine Hill Iron-Making Complex
Roxbury Museum
Salem
Music Vale Museum (Potential future museum)
Old Ransom Farm Carriage Museum
Salem Historical Society Museum
Salisbury
Holley-Williams House Museum (Closed)
Salisbury Association Museum at the Academy
Salisbury Cannon Museum (Closed)
Tremaine Art Gallery at Hotchkiss School
Scotland
D’Elia Antique Tool Museum
Edward Waldo Homestead
The Huntington Homestead
Seymour
Katharine Matthies House
Sharon
Audubon Sharon Nature Museum
Gay-Hoyt House Museum
Standard Space Art Gallery
Shelton
The Brownson House
The Inter-Dimensional Paranormal Museum and Study
Trap Fall School House
The Wilson Barn
Sherman
Audubon Deer Pond Farm Nature Center
Northrop House Museum
Roger Sherman Cobbler Shop
Simsbury
Flamig Educational Farm
Heublein Tower Museum
Potter Galleries at Ethel Walker School
SHS 1790 School House
SHS Ellsworth Visitor’s Center & Ensign Bickford Building
SHS Hendrick Cottage & Meeting House
SHS Phelps Tavern Museum & Homestead
SHS Phelps Barn & Carriage House
SHS Probate Building and Ice House
Storyteller’s Cottage (Closed)
Stratton Brook State Park Nature Center
Westminster School Art Galleries
Somers
Somers Historical Society Museum
Somers Mountain Museum of Natural History and Primitive Technology (Closed)
South Windsor
Nowash Village Outdoor Museum
Pleasant Valley Schoolhouse Museum
Union District School Arts Center and Museum (Potential Future Museum)
Wood Memorial Library & Museum
Southbury
Audubon Society at Bent of the River
Bullet Hill School Museum
Ludolf Farm Museum
Old Town Hall Museum
Southington
Bradley Barnes Museum
Milldale Depot Museum
Mirtollucci & Sons Oddities Museum (Closed)
Southington Community Cultural Arts Center
South End & West Street Schoolhouses
Southington Historical Center
Sprague
The Sprague Historical Society Museum
Stafford
Gasoline Alley Automotive/Ford Museum
Northeast States Civilian Conservation Corps Museum
Patten District One-Room Schoolhouse
Stafford Historical Society Museum
Stamford
Bartlett Arboretum & Educational Center
Black WWII History Museum
Danger Gallery, GR Art Gallery, & Mayor’s Gallery
Fairfield County Sports Hall of Fame
Fort Stamford
Hoyt-Barnum House (SHS)
Soundwaters Coastal Education Center
Stamford Art Association Gallery
Stamford History Center (SHS)
Stamford Museum & Nature Center
Stamford UConn Art Gallery
UConn Public Art
Ukrainian Museum and Library
Sterling
Sterling Historical Society
Stonington (including part of Mystic)
B.F. Clyde’s Cider Mill
Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer House
Coogan Farm Welcome Center & Art Barn
Denison Homestead
Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center
Old Mystic History Center
James Merrill House
The Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport Museum
Mystic Aquarium
Mystic Seaport, Museum of America and the Sea
Old Lighthouse Museum
R.W. Woolworth Library and Research Center
Stanton-Davis Museum
Stratford
Boothe Memorial Park & Museums
Boothe Memorial Railway Society Museum
Technocratic Cathedral/Redwoods Building
Catharine Bunnell Mitchell Museum
The Children’s Garbage Museum (Closed)
Connecticut Air and Space Center
John Zaffis Museum of the Paranormal
Judson House and Museum
Merritt Parkway Museum
National Helicopter Museum
Perry House Museum
Ruby and Calvin Fletcher African American History Museum
Stratford Veterans Museum (Potential future museum)
Suffield
King House Museum
Phelps-Hatheway House
Suffield Firemen’s Museum
Thomaston
Clocktown Museum
Crescent Art Gallery
Railroad Museum of New England
Seth Thomas – Bradstreet House Museum
Thomaston Historical Society Museum
Thompson
Ellen Larned Memorial Museum
Old Town Hall
Tourtellotte Memorial Museum Room
Tolland
Daniel Benton Homestead
Hicks-Stearns Family Museum
Old Tolland County Courthouse
Old Tolland County Jail & Museum
Tolland Arts Center
Tolland Military Museum
Torrington
Five Points Gallery
Hotchkiss-Fyler House
KidsPlay Museum
Northwest Connecticut Fire Fighting Museum
Ritz Crystal Ballroom Lighting Museum
Ritz Crystal Ballroom Style Museum
UConn Public Art Collection (Moved)
Torrington History Museum
Turner Museum
Trumbull
SeaQuest (Closed)
Trumbull Historical Society Museum
Union
Union Historical Society Museum
Vernon
Arts Center East
Gene Pitney “stuff”
New England Civil War Museum
New England Motorcycle Museum
Talcottville Outdoor Museum
Valley Falls Farm Heritage Center
Vernon Railroad Depot Outdoor Museum
Vernon Historical Society Museum
Voluntown
Wylie School House (Potential future museum)
Wallingford
Johnson Mansion/Silver Museum
Nehemiah Royce House Museum
Paul Mellon Arts Center
The Peters Railroad Museum
Samuel Parsons House
Yalesville Historical Center (Potential future museum)
Warren
Brick Schoolhouse
Warren Historical Society Museum
Washington
Gunn Memorial Historical Museum
The Institute for American Indian Studies Museum
Thomas S. Perakos Arts and Community Center Gallery at The Gunnery
Washington Art Association & Gallery
Waterbury
Albanian-American Cultural & Islamic Center Museum
Highland Package Beer Can Museum
Mattatuck Museum
The Timexpo Museum (Closed)
Waterbury Button Museum
Waterford
1740 Jordan Schoolhouse
Beebe-Phillips House
Eolia at Harkness Memorial State Park
Margaret Stacy Memorial Barn/Museum
Millstone Nuclear Power Station Education Center (Closed)
Watertown
Mark W. Potter Gallery at The Taft School
Old Nova Scotia Schoolhouse
Watertown History Museum
West Hartford
Abraham J. Feldman Museum
Chase Family Gallery at the JCC
Chase Orchestrion Collection (Private)
The Children’s Museum (Moved)
Cogswell Heritage House at ASD
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford
Joseloff Gallery (UHart)
Kaman Print Studies Center (UHart)
Museum of American Political Life (Closed)
Museum of Jewish Civilization (UHart)
Neil’s American Dream Museum (Closed)
Noah Webster House Museum
The Norfeldt Kindergarten Museum
Sarah Whitman Hooker Homestead
Silpe Gallery (UHart)
St. Joseph University Art Gallery
Vintage Hi-Fi Museum
West Hartford Art League Galleries
Westmoor Park Nature Center
West Haven
Savin Rock Museum (Closed, potentially moving)
Seton Art Gallery (UNH)
Ward-Heitman House Museum
West Haven Center for the Arts (Potential future museum)
West Haven Historical Society Museum
West Haven Veteran’s Museum
Westbrook
Military Historians Museum (Closed)
Museum of Early Engineering and Technology
Westbrook Historical Society Museum
Weston
Coley House
Coley Barn Museum & Carriage House
Lachat Town Farm
Sculpture Park (future outdoor museum)
Weston Woods (Closed)
Westport
Adams Academy Schoolhouse Museum
Earthplace
Westport Museum For History & Culture at the Bradley-Wheeler Barn
MoCa Westport
Sherwood Island Nature Center
University Archives
Westport Arts Center (Moved)
Westport Library Galleries
Westport Museum For History & Culture at The Wheeler House
Wethersfield
Buttolph-Williams House
Captain James Francis House (Closed)
Cove Warehouse Maritime Museum
Eleanor Buck Wolf Nature Center
Hurlbut-Dunham House
Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum
Wethersfield Museum at Keeney Memorial
Willington
Daniel Glazier Tavern
Dye and Bleach House Community Gallery
Gardiner Hall, Jr. Museum at The Mill Works
Masinda’s Button Shop
Wilton
Ambler Farm Museum (Potential future museum)
Betts-Sturgis-Blackmar House Museum
Burt Barn Gallery & Outbuildings
Hurlbutt Street Schoolhouse
Sloan-Raymond-Fitch House Museum
Weir Farm National Historic Park
Woodcock Nature Center
Winchester (including Winsted)
American Museum of Tort Law
American Mural Project
Art Gallery at Mad
Little Red School House
Northwestern Connecticut Community College Art Gallery
Solomon Rockwell House
Whiting Mills Art Galleries
Winchester Center Kerosene Lamp Museum (Closed)
Winchester Center Old Academy
Winchester Fire Department Museum
Windham (including Willimantic)
The Art Gallery at ECSU
ArtSpace Windham Gallery
Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum
Edward A. Card Photo Museum
Guilford Smith Library Museum
Jillson House Museum
Kerri Art Studio and Gallery
Land Art Generator Initiative
Robert K. Wickware Planetarium
Willimantic Public Art
Windham Textile and History Museum
Windsor
Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum
Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee House Museum
Huntington House Museum (Closed)
Mercy Gallery at Richmond Art Center
Northwest Park Nature Museum
Oliver Ellsworth Homestead
Rainbow Dam and Fishway
Strong-Howard House
Vintage Radio & Communications Museum
Windsor Art Center
Windsor Historical Society Museum
Windsor Locks
Edward Sabotka Civil War Museum
Memorial Hall Museum
New England Air Museum
Noden-Reed House and Barn
Pool Table Magic Museum
Wolcott
Old Stone Schoolhouse Museum
Center School History Museum
Woodbridge
The Thomas Darling House Museum
Old South School
Palestine Museum US
Woodbury
Buz Russell’s Farm & Rural Life Museum
Hogpen Hill Farms Sculpture Park
Flanders Nature Center
Glebe House Museum
High Wire Deer and Animal Farm
Hurd House Museum
Leroy Anderson House
Old Schoolhouse Museum
Woodbury Pewter Museum
Woodstock
Brunn Barn Agricultural Museum
Chamberlin Mill
The Gallery at the Loos Center for the Arts
Photomobile Model Museum (Closed)
Red White School House
Roseland Cottage/Bowen House
Woodstock Historical Society Welcome Center/Museum
Transient, Traveling & Multiple Town Museums
cARTIE
Costen Cultural Exhibit
BioBlitz
CT Women’s Hall of Fame
Freedom Schooner Amistad
Iwo Jima/WWII Traveling Museum
The Nut Museum
Poop Museum
UConn Public Art Collection
Virtual Museums
Connecticut Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum, Hartford (Gone, 2016)
UConn Historical Costume and Textile Museum
UConn Virtual Pathology Museum (Mansfield) (Gone, 2016)
UConn’s Telecommunications Virtual Museum
Virtual Instrument Museum, Middletown (Wesleyan) – Only available to Wes domains, 2016
J A says
November 30, 2007 at 9:02 pmHi there,
Love your quest and your website! Just wanted to say that I hope you visit us at Kidcity in Middletown before your little one outgrows us! I know you’ve got a lot of places to go, but I just thought I’d formally extend the invitation. By the way, you seem to be prime candidate for the reciprocal card for the children’s museums (6 in CT, that’s a lot of admission — or do you check passes out of libraries?) You can learn more at Kidcity or at http://www.childrensmuseums.org, which lists all the children’s museums in the country (or most of them.) We’ve been to several dozen around the country, but that pales in comparision with your goals! Good Luck! -Jen from Kidcity (you mentioned Wes, are you an alum?)
JM says
February 7, 2008 at 12:36 pmHi, your website is great. Your museum write-ups are very entertaining and informative, and I think all the museums would benefit from photos of their exhibits and descriptions. You are a great source for some little known museums, and your information for some of them is much better than what they have on their websites.
If you get down to Fairfield County, here are two one-day ideas:
Westport/Fairfield: Earthplace, Wheeler House, Connecticut Audubon Birdcraft Museum and Fairfield History Center. All are a short way off the Post Road {Route 1), although you would likely be best off with three in one day.
Norwalk – All the Norwalk museums are pretty close to each other, and your son would love Stepping Stones and the Maritime Aquarium.
Enjoy your adventures!
honeybunny says
February 18, 2008 at 7:48 pmMy comments really add that special something to your reviews.
Your welcome ~
hb
Catherine Rosich says
November 17, 2008 at 6:47 amThank you for putting together this very exciting and useful website! It is a thrill to read about all of the fantastic museums in Connecticut. Not only do we get to read about your experiences but gain great insight into where we “museum lovers” may want to go next! It would be a pleasure to have you visit the Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center. Our regional history exhibit is brand new with many interactive features that engage all ages in the joy of learning. If you decide to visit us let me know that you are coming, it would be a pleasure to meet you and your family.
SteadyJohn says
December 17, 2008 at 8:42 amI came to your site here after seeing your “tornado” photo at Brownstone Birding. I am not sure about your photo but I do like your museum lists. I didn’t have time to thoroughly peruse your list to find it, but do you recall a “Submarine Museum” here in Middletown on Washington St. I think is was a privately run affair in someone’s home. I don’t think it’s there any longer because the sign has been taken down. I will link to you on my “Conservacity” blog.
SteadyJohn says
December 17, 2008 at 8:44 amWhoops! You are really way ahead of me; I just noticed your article about the “Sub” museum; great work!
Soundbounder says
March 3, 2009 at 7:24 amExcellent site!!!!
museumgirl says
July 3, 2009 at 3:30 pmHi – We recently visited CT and almost drove off the road when we saw your famous sign! Also read your article in Museum News. We have visited some of the sites you have written about, and look forward to visiting others. However, having second thoughts about trying some of those drinks (!) Keep traveling – have fun!
Public Relations says
July 13, 2009 at 7:06 amHaving just learned about your web site and goal to visit all CT museums, we at the Children’s Museum of Southeastern Connecticut would be pleased to treat you, Hoang, and Damian to a day at our museum. All we ask in exchange is a follow-up conversation, either in person or on the telephone. Over the past 3 years our focus has been to create a friendly, engaging, creative museum that is safe and accessible for all. We value your experience, both as a father and truly experienced museum visitor! When you come, remember to plan for a day: we’ll provide you with a beach pass, free of charge, to the nearby Hole-in the-Wall Beach on Long Island Sound – but please call ahead so we can put it aside for you. There is also a lovely state park and plenty of other family-friendly activities in the area, but you probably already know that. To find out more, please visit our site: http://www.childrensmuseumsect, or call our executive director, Christy Hammond at (860) 691-1111. Hope to hear from you soon!
Jess P says
August 19, 2009 at 8:38 pmHey Steve-
This is so great. Seems like you’ve been everywhere. We are always looking for fun, inexpensive things to do with the kids and now I have a resource to go to. The contact me link seems not work for me, so please let me know how I can reach you. Give my best to your family.
Jess
Melissa says
April 7, 2010 at 9:06 pmHi please add us to your list …this is an excellent resource you have put together. GALLERY 46 is a non-profit art gallery under fiscal sponosrship of Fractured Atlas in NYC. we are located in downtown Rockville CT…we are dedicated to enriching the cultural landscape of Rockville CT by exhibiting emerging and established artists,and makeing their art accessible to Rockville and the greater community.
Beryl Fishbone says
July 14, 2010 at 5:05 amThe Leffingwell House Museum, 348 Washington Street, Norwich, CT is open Saturdays May – October from noon – 4 PM and by appointment as we have no paid staff and volunteers may have to take time off from their jobs.
The museum is a fully furnished colonial period house museum, circa 1675. Most of the furnishings were made in the Norwich area. There are workshops or events most weekends. Donations of $5.00 per person are asked but not required. There is a painting by Bass Otis and other artists of the period as well.
The museum is run by the Society of the Founders of Norwich, CT est. Oct. 10, 1901. Membership is only $20.00 per year and includes newsletter, activities and access to the house for family, write Society of the Founders, PO Box 13, Norwich, CT 06360.
Exhibits and events change so visit us often!
Thank you for having such a great site! I am looking forward to your visit!
Will K. Wilkins says
August 7, 2010 at 3:07 amHi, found your site via Bill Hosley, would like to invite you to include Real Art Ways on your list. 35 years old this year, Real Art Ways presents and commissions new art. We don’t have a permanent collection, but offer museum-quality original work. Come visit us!